Key Facts & Analysis

In 2009, China agreed with the US to jointly work on building a Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Joint Clean Energy Research Centers, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, and 21st Century Coal. The US and China are the biggest global emitters of CO2.

Weaknesses in Chinese Wind Power

Written by Vivian Wai-yin Kwok on 20 July 2009 for Forbes

In this article, director of research and advisory Sebastian Meyer is quoted as saying that while China’s wind energy growth rate has been strong, fractured organization and administrative structure of transmission and distribution also made it difficult for grid connections to be made from project sites to major population centers. He also said incentives provided by national regulators to ensure grid connection had not gone far enough, saying that the NDRC has had to step in a number of times to force fund transfers among provincial level profit centers of the State Grid Company.