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India records world-beating green energy growth | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Increase of 52% to $10.3bn in 2011 was based on strong solar performance India's transformation into a cleantech powerhouse moved up a gear in 2011 when it racked up investments of $10.3bn in the sector, a growth rate of 52 per cent year on year that dwarfed the rest of the world's significant economies. Solar investments led the growth with a seven-fold increase in funding, from $0.6bn in 2010 to $4.2bn in 2011, just below the $4.6bn invested in wind during the year, according to figures released yesterday by analysts Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
China heeft aangekondigd 15 GW aan capaciteit in zonne-energie te willen hebben in 2015, een stijging van 50 procent ten opzichte van het eerdere doel. De VS hebben met 1,7 GW in 2011 een record-hoeveelheid aan nieuwe capaciteit in zonne-energie geïnstalleerd. De onderlinge rivaliteit krijgt een nieuw hoofdstuk. De Nationale Energie Administratie van China kondigde gisteren aan haar doel van 10 GW aan capaciteit in 2015 naar boven bij te stellen. Het doel van 10 GW stelde de regering in reactie op de ramp in de kernreactor van Fukushima eerder dit jaar.
Club van 30 - Duurzaam nieuws - Race om zon ontbrandt tussen China en VS
November 4 News: China To Phase Out Energy-Sucking Incandescent Lightbulbs | ThinkProgress
China will phase out energy-draining light bulbs China will phase out power-draining light bulbs within five years in a move to make the world’s biggest polluting nation more efficient but also certain to impact the global market. China will ban imports and sales of 100-watt-and-higher incandescent bulbs from Oct. 1, 2012, in an attempt to save energy and curb climate change, China’s main planning agency said Friday. Bans will also be imposed on 60-watt-and-higher bulbs from Oct. 1, 2014 and 15-watt-and-higher old-style bulbs from Oct. 1, 2016. The time frame of the last step may be adjusted according to an evaluation in September 2016, the National Development and Reform Commission statement said.
October 14 News: "The Chinese Dragon is Coming" in Wind | ThinkProgress
Other stories below: Gore Links Climate Change to Great Lakes Problems; U.S. Allows BP to Drill in the Gulf; Marine Contractors Seek Jobs in Offshore wind. China Targets GE Wind Turbines With $15.5 Billion War Chest China has taken on General Electric Co. and Western peers that control the $70 billion wind-turbine market, striving to repeat its 2010 coup when the Asian nation sold more than half the world’s solar panels for the first time.
Winds Of Change Blowing From China, Where Else? by EU Energy Policy Blog
China may not be where cutting edge research takes place or innovative technologies emerge, and Chinese manufacturers are not usually the first to develop and market new products. But once they identify a product as globally marketable, Chinese manufacturers typically copy and apply reverse engineering techniques and then undercut their Western competitors in their own markets. With substantially lower wages, they can be fierce competitors. This pattern is repeated to one product after another, and in one market after another. A recent example is the market for utility-scale wind turbines where China has made impressive progress in the last few years.
China invests $199 billion for urban rail through 2015: report | Reuters
BEIJING | Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:30pm EDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China will invest about 1.27 trillion yuan ($199 billion) to build subways and light rail lines during the current five-year plan ending in 2015 to ease traffic congestion and spur urban development, the official China Securities Journal reported on Friday. The newspaper, without identifying sources, said local governments would finance 35 percent of the bill and the rest would come from commercial banks, China Development Bank as well as other channels. The National Development and Reform Commission, China's powerful economic planner, will also provide low interest loans via China Development Bank, one of the country's three policy lenders, it added. That includes new investment of 170 billion yuan in the capital city of Beijing in the years up to 2015, adding six new lines to the crowded city's underground and light rail network. ($1 = 6.390 Chinese Yuan )
Clean Energy May Be China’s “Historic Opportunity” to Surpass America and Become The Next Technology Superpower | ThinkProgress
by Melanie Hart China’s State Council (the national cabinet) is currently reviewing a set of massive funding proposals for seven key “ strategic emerging industries ”: environmentally friendly and energy-efficient technologies, next-generation IT, biotechnology, high-end equipment manufacturing, alternative energy, alternative materials, and alternative-energy vehicles. The Chinese identify these industries as the most optimum market environments for their indigenous innovation program, and the State Council is expected to approve and release the official package next month, including an overall 2011-2015 development plan for strategic emerging industries and individual funding and policy support plans for each industry.
Club van 30 - Duurzaam nieuws - Feed-in tarief voor Chinese zonne-energie
Producenten van zonne-energie in China kunnen vanaf nu rekenen op een steuntarief. Deze subsidie moet de opwekking van elektriciteit uit zonne-energie concurrerend maken met opwekking uit fossiele brandstoffen. Een feed-in tarief is een subsidieregeling die uitbetaalt aan producenten van duurzame energie die terugleveren aan het elektriciteitsnet.China is Kicking Our A@$ in Clean Energy: The Infographic : TreeHugger
Infographic by One Block Off the Grid These days, I typically try to avoid proliferating the "China is kicking our ass in clean energy" mantra, if only because nobody seems to care -- regardless of how much Tom Friedman wants us to. (For the record, they are, and we should). But One Block Off the Grid's little infographic went and made it pretty clear just how China's investment in renewable energy compares to the United States' -- and it's not pretty. Here 'tis: A couple things to note, before you dive in: First, that 800 MW of installed solar capacity they attribute to China doesn't included the slew of rooftop solar units that the nation's larger cities are famous for (I guess they're mostly solar water heaters, but something on the graphic should note that achievement).
The U.S. is extraordinarily good at nurturing entrepreneurship and invention, but not as good at building industries around those inventions. Case in point: While America leads in venture capital investments in clean energy, it has ceded leadership in manufacturing and deployment to European and Asian countries. Given the powerful impact globalization has had on moving manufacturing of consumer electronics, steel and automobiles out of the U.S., the dominance of Asian countries in clean-energy manufacturing isn’t a big surprise. But now, according to new figures from Lux Research, America is starting to see competition from China with its core strengths in venture investments and entrepreneurship.
With 80% Jump in Venture Funding Since 2009, China Emerges as Early-Stage Investor, Not Just Manufacturer, of Cleantech | ThinkProgress
Let’s Compete on Innovation Rather Than Patents
The next generations of telecom technologies are called “LTE” or “4G”. China’s Huawei believes that by 2015, it will hold 15–20% of the worldwide patents in these technologies, and that these will earn it at least 1.5% of the sales price of every device—every cell phone, laptop, and tablet—that uses them. Huawei is on track to achieve its goals: in 2007, it held just 152 patents; by the end of 2009, it had applied for 42,543 patents, of which 11,339 had been granted in China, 215 in the United States, and 1282 in Europe. Huawei’s rival, ZTE, claims to hold 7% of the world’s LTE patents and plans to increase this to 10% by 2012. Emboldened by these successes, the Chinese government has initiated a nationwide program to make China the world leader in patents in every important industry. The New York Times reported that the government is offering cash bonuses, better housing, and tax breaks to individuals and companies filing the most patent applications.It's a deep pit in the Mojave desert. But it could hold the key to America challenging China's technological domination of the 21st century. At the bottom of the vast site, beneath 6 metres (20ft) of bright emerald-green water, runs a rich seam of ores that are hardly household names but are rapidly emerging as the building blocks of the hi-tech future. The mine is the largest known deposit of rare earth elements outside China.
Rare earth metals mine is key to US control over hi-tech future | Environment | The Guardian
In een landenvergelijking van adviesbureau Ernst & Young staat China als koploper op het gebied van duurzame energie. Vooral de ontwikkeling van de Chinese windenergie heeft daaraan bijgedragen. Bijna de helft van alle recente investeringen in windenergie op de wereld komt voor rekening van de Chinesen. Met andere woorden, van elke twee windturbines verrijst er één ergens in China. Duurzame energie representeert een belangrijk element van de economische groeiplannen die het land heeft. Volgens het onderzoek blijkt in de VS juist meer nadruk te liggen op zonne-energie.
Door windenergie is China koploper met duurzame energie | Duurzame Energie Thuis: actuele informatie over zonne-energie, windenergie, biomassa etc.
Cheng Jianping has wound up in a Chinese "re-education camp" with a record-breaking five words on Twitter. Mocking nationalistic vandalism that flared up around a Chinese-Japanese dispute over the ownership of uninhabited islands, she retweeted another's message and added the ironic admonition, "Charge, angry youth!" The message she retweeted was originally written by her fiancé Hua Chunhui months ago. That tweet read: "Anti-Japanese demonstrations, smashing Japanese products, that was all done years ago by Guo Quan.
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Traffic clogs Beijing as a heavy haze hangs over the city. Photograph: Diego Azubel/EPA Since the US embassy in Beijing began tweeting hourly pollution reports last year, I – along with many other smog watchers – have been horrified at the frequency of "bad" and "hazardous" readings. But this week, the depth and murkiness of the haze was so appalling that the automated system briefly entered the realm of black comedy with a "crazy bad" analysis of our air. The outlandish description appeared on the @beijingair Twitter account late yesterday when levels of PM2.5 tiny particulate matter surged past 500, about 20 times higher than the guideline issued by the World Health Organisation .