CHINA........ interesting information is the title of an anonymous email bashing China, the Australian Greens and the Gillard Government currently doing the rounds – a combination which is obviously delighting a politically ignorant and xenophobic element of society. It finishes by calling for an end to the carbon tax:
You are wasting your time and ours with your carbon tax.
All you are doing is increasing our cost of living and rendering our manufacturers uncompetitive.
It will make no difference when countries like China are consuming at these extraordinary rates.
Here is an example of the often contradictory ‘facts’ this email contains:
China is currently the number one producer in the world of wind and solar power. But don’t use it themselves.
This is the reality:
China’s wind power generation market is mainly shared among the ’Big Five’ power producers and several other major state-owned enterprises. These firms account for more than 80% of the total wind power market. The largest wind power operators, Guodian (Longyuan Electric Group), Datang and Huaneng expanded their capacity by 1-2 GW each during the year, while Huadian, Guohua and China Guangdong Nuclear Power are following close behind…..
The first offshore wind power demonstration project, which is also the first offshore wind project outside of Europe, the Shanghai Donghai Bridge Offshore wind farm, began generating power in June 2010……
The breathtaking growth of the Chinese wind energy industry has been driven primarily by national renewable energy policies. The first Renewable Energy Law entered into force in 2006, and gave huge momentum to the development of renewable energy. In 2007, the first implementation rules for the law emerged, giving further impetus to wind energy development. In addition, the “Medium and Long-term Development Plan for Renewable Energy in China” from 2007 set out the government’s long term commitment and put forward national renewable energy targets, policies and measures for implementation, including a mandatory market share of 1% of non-hydro renewable energy in the total electricity mix by 2010 and 3% by 2020.
In 2009, the Renewable Energy Law was amended to introduce a requirement for grid operators to purchase a certain fixed amount of renewable energy. The amendment also requires grid companies to absorb the full amount of renewable power produced, also giving them the option of applying for subsidies from a new “Renewable Energy Fund” to cover the extra cost related to integrating renewable power if necessary.
Published: Monday, May 14 2012. Hami is one of China’s major coal producing regions, and is also home to some of the country’s biggest wind farms.
The line, which will be more than 2,000km long, will have a transmission capacity of 8GW and is expected to be completed by 2014.
A second 750kV UHV DC line will link Xinjiang with the main network of the Northwest China Grid, carrying wind and solar power generated in Hami, Jiuquan city in Gansu province, and Qaidam basin in Qinghai to the rest of the country. It is scheduled to complete in September 2013.
China plans to build 19 major UHV lines – including alternating and direct current links – under its 12th five-year plan. Eleven of these aim to help wind power transmission.
Solar power installations across China
JinkoSolar supplies more than 15 percent of solar power capacity of one of the richest regions of solar energy in China
China realizes world's biggest carbon emission cut
JinkoSolar supplies more than 15 percent of solar power capacity of one of the richest regions of solar energy in China
SHANGHAI, Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), a fast-growing, vertically integrated solar power product manufacturer based in China, recently announced that the 18 MW project developed by China Guangdong Nuclear Solar Energy Development Co., Ltd.(CGN-SEDC) is now connected to the grid. JinkoSolar provided all the modules for this project in Dunhuang, Gansu Province in west China.
Located in the solar base of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company in Dunhuang, the solar power plant covers an area of 400,000 square meters and JinkoSolar provided all 76,000 modules for the installation.
With an annual average sunshine time of 3,362 hours, the city of Dunhuang is recognized by experts as a world-class solar-rich region. At the same time, convenient power transmission in the region has provided a guarantee for the rapid growth of photovoltaic grid connection systems……
Xinhua, November 26, 2011. Although China has become a major carbon emitter, it has realized the biggest carbon emission reduction across the world, said a press release from the report's research team on Saturday.
New York Times May 11, 2009. China has emerged in the past two years as the world’s leading builder of more efficient, less polluting coal power plants, mastering the technology and driving down the cost…..
China has begun requiring power companies to retire an older, more polluting power plant for each new one they build.
Bloomberg News - Feb 22, 2012. Total energy use by the world’s second-biggest economy rose to the equivalent of 96.66 thousand trillion British thermal units, according to conversion rates from China’s government and the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The U.S. consumed 97.88 thousand trillion, according to the EIA’s Feb. 7 Short- Term Energy Outlook Report.
Excerpt from Population and Energy Consumption by Country in 2010
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Population data source: Population Reference Bureau; 2007 World Population Data Sheet.
Energy data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration 2007.
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