China's industrial energy revolution: renewable targets just became even more demanding: part 1

Title: China's industrial energy revolution: renewable targets just became even more demanding: part 1
Creator: Mathews, John; Tan, Hao
Relation: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Vol. 10, Issue 52
Relation: http://www.japanfocus.org/-Hao-Tan/3874/article.html
Publisher: Japan Focus
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: China is undergoing the most astonishing energy transformation underpinning the industrial revolution that is making it the workshop of the world. It is building its ‘black’ energy system at a prodigious rate – building the equivalent of a 1-GW thermal power station every 10 days, and burning vast amounts of coal in doing so. But at the same time it is building a ‘green’ energy system based on non-fossil sources (renewables and nuclear) faster than any other country on earth. China’s green revolution is reflected in its targets for building renewable energy systems, which are being expanded as fast as is humanly and technically possible – in the name of energy security and nation-building infrastructure as much as for decarbonizing the economy. Which wins in this close race between black and green development is a matter of the highest importance, for China and for the world.
Subject: renewables; energy intensity; coal; China; carbon emissions
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1307789
Identifier: uon:21526
Identifier: ISSN:1557-4660
Language: eng
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