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PM – China shoots for world leadership on renewable energy

China shoots for world leadership on renewable energy PRINT FRIENDLY EMAIL STORYPM – Friday, 12 June , 2009 18:32:00Reporter: Stephen McDonell”……………………..The Government in Beijing knows it has a massive problem with greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution in general, and in China there’s no solution like an engineering solution.

This country plans to build the biggest wind farms in world and it’s not stopping there.

China has already poured money into renewable energy and the Government is hinting at even further increases in investment in this area.

According to Zhang Xiaoqiang, the vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, China will easily surpass its targets for wind and solar power by 2020; so it is now considering targets three times higher.

He told the Guardian newspaper that while the current goal for wind power over the next 11 years is 30 gigawatts the new target could be more like 100 gigawatts over the same time period.

He also said that the total installed capacity for solar energy would be at least three times the original target of three gigawatts.

China could have a massive one fifth of all its energy from renewable sources by 2020.

PM – China shoots for world leadership on renewable energy

June 13, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized