On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:46:56 +1000, "AGWlies"
greenielies@greenielies wrote:



Wind power now accounts for less than 1 per cent of China's energy needs


http://cleantechnica.com/2011/06/01/...1-as-expected/

China’s total installed wind power capacity has doubled every year
since 2005. Last year, it added 18,928 MW of wind power capacity. The
country with the next most added was the U.S. with 5,115 MW added. In
total, China has 44,733 MW installed, while the U.S. (2nd again) has
40,180 MW installed.


http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90...0/7394662.html

China's wind power output rose more than 60 percent to 18.8 billion
kilowatt-hours in the first quarter of 2011, growing 30 percent to 50
percent faster than the output of thermal power, hydropower and
nuclear power in the same period, according to information from the
National Energy Administration.

Shi Lishan, director of the New and Renewable Energy Department of the
National Energy Administration, said that the significant increase in
the wind power output in the first quarter exemplifies China's
flourishing wind power industry. The country's total installed wind
power capacity doubled for five consecutive years since 2005.


while solar constitutes one-thousandth of 1 per cent of the country's energy
use.


http://www.climatespectator.com.au/c...ig-solar-boost

Hidden away in a government gazette this week was an announcement that
China would introduce a national feed-in tariff for solar energy. It
took a day or two for the significance to dawn on the market, but it
is now being viewed by analysts in an industry full of landmark
developments as possibly the biggest of them all.

China has, in recent years, come to dominate the global market for
solar panels, but it has so far installed little in its country – just
0.8 gigawatts in a grid that has grown to nearly 1,000GW.