China to Be World’s Top Manufacturer of Green Energy
While China is the world’s biggest greenhouse- gas emitter, it is making huge contributions to clean energy production as the world leader in the production of solar cells, wind power turbines and low-carbon energy technology.
China is already the world’s largest renewable-energy producer as measured by installed generating capacity, according to a report today from the Climate Group, a coalition of companies and governments that support solutions to global warming. The country is also the world’s top manufacturer of solar cells and will be the leading exporter of wind turbines by 2009.
This is an interesting contrast to its ranking as one of the world’s biggest polluters and the country’s rapid expansion of coal-fired power generation. About 75 percent of China’s electricity comes from coal but they are closing older coal-fired power plants and replacing them with more efficient coal generators. While China will continue to rely on coal to fuel its rapid economic growth, state officials understand the need to transition to clean energy.
The Chinese government wants to reduce the amount of energy they use to produce each unit of economic output by 20 percent in two years and has told its 1,000 largest energy-consuming companies to cut their power consumption even more, according to the report.
About 16 percent of China’s electricity came from renewable sources in 2006, led by the world’s largest number of hydroelectric generators, according to the report. The nation’s goal is to increase the proportion of renewable electricity to 23 percent by 2020.
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