Cleaner Greener China

Day two at the Beijing smart grid conference:
After spending much of the first day of the Beijing Smart grid conference discussing the definition and scope of smart grid for China, the second day of the conference was focused on how smartgrid was going to be rolled out, what some of the solutions would be, and [...]

While the traditional focus of discussions surrounding cleantech uptake have been largely market driven. That, for renewable energies to compete with fossil fuels, the price per KwH had to be below the going rate for fossil, regardless of what the negative economic, environmental, or political externalities were.   It was what seemed to me an unreasonable [...]

The Beijing Review article Going Solar is an excellent piece showing the industry as one is poorly structured, and one that will see changes.

Perhaps one of te best things about this recession is that fact that commodity pricing and stimulus packages have essentially increased not only the affordability of many things, and for China that means big investments in wind energy.
China has set a target for renewable energy consumption of 40 percent of the market by the year [...]

There are few sources of clean energy more discussed than solar, but as we recently highlighted, solar energy in China has faced a lot of hurdles.
Put into operation last week, this project could offer some hope as more and more firms are looking to put panels into operation.
However, before jumping to conclusions, I would be [...]

A very interesting report entitled The Environmental Impacts of E-bikes in Chinese Cities put out by researchers at Berkley, Tsinghua, and UC Davis. The article itself is a well written piece that looks at the recent explosion of electronic bikes that have hit the road, their environmental pros vs. cons, and where improvements need to [...]