China

Energy Strategies in China

China is the second largest consumer of fossil fuels in the world, but is emerging as a global RE promoter. At the present time renewable energy consumption accounts for only approx. 3% of total energy consumption, but with a rate of increase of RES in China = 25% a year.

Annual solar collector sales in China trebled between 1999 (3,4 GWth) and 2006 (12,6 GWth)

China has abundant RE reserves: hydropower, wind energy, geothermal energy and biomass.

Wind energy is playing a major role in RE development in China. Wind energy reserves alone could be higher than current power generation = 14% of global wind energy generation. In 2006 a total of 1.337 MWp of wind energy was installed. Total WE capacity = 2.601 MWp at end 2006.

Today there are > 70 manufacturers of wind turbines in China, whose products range from 0,2 to 11 KW in capacity..

Consumption of electricity from RES is expected to reach 15% of total consumption by 2020.

GIANGXHI province in China plans to develop BIOGAS on a large scale: they want to reach 50.000.000 families producing BIOGAS by the end of the decade (2010).

The individual BIOGAS plant, which produces Biogas for the energy and heat needs of the family, is produced with the family's own organic waste production. A technology that has been used in China for decades. It replaces very efficiently the lack of power existing in remote regions.

Example of Chinese digester : Cf. LIOR Biogas CD-ROM

China Sustainable Energy Program

Renewables in China: IEA Statistics