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Beijing Smart Grid Conference: Day 2

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 … Continue reading

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China’s Influence on the Economics of Cleantech

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 … Continue reading

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Restructuring in China’s Solar Industy

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

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China to Triple Wind Energy Targets. Blowing Air? Or Generating Energy?

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 … Continue reading

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Baoding (China) Hotel Installs Solar Panels

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 … Continue reading

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Environmental Impacts of E-bikes in Chinese Cities

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 … Continue reading

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