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2050 energy plan revealed
China's top energy think-tank chief has outlined a three-step strategic roadmap for the development of the country's renewable energy resources through to 2050. Han Wenke, director-general of the Energy Research Institute under the National Development and Reform Commission, said: "By 2050, over one third of the country's total primary energy consumption should come from renewable energy."
Carbon trading set to rewrite eco-rulebook
Market forces can play an important, if invisible, role in China's efforts to curb carbon emissions and the potential for carbon trading in the country is huge, according to the chairman of a new initiative aiming to introduce a little US-style environmental know-how across China.
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Energy efficiency best way forward
If we're serious about developing low-carbon power sources, we also need to develop a power system that can deliver them -- a flexible and efficient smart grid that will effectively balance our energy consumption with the availability of wind and solar power. That technology is available now, but it needs to be implemented.
Green SceneThe Research Center for Wind Resources at Sun Yat-Sen University in southern China has developed several advanced wind farm-siting systems following several years of research. The new systems are the Regional Wind Resource Information System, the Integrated Wind Farm Siting System and the CFD Wind Farm Siting System.
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