China and green power
The big news this week is the announcement by Zhang Xiaoqiang, China’s vice-chairman of National Development that the country plans to increase substantially its commitment to invest in new wind and solar power initiatives. According to the Guardian report, China is now anticipating easily reaching its 2020 target for the use of wind power. The 30 gigawatts objective has been increased to 100GW and solar power use will also be tripled.
Zhang is confident of comfortably exceeding the 15% overall target for renewable energy. With representatives of world governments meeting in Bonn this week to thrash out details of what are achievable targets, this looks to be an important development. China and the US together produce over 50% of the world’s carbon emissions. [Photo copyright: The Energy Workshop Ltd]
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