No Mention of Solar Thermal Power as Part of China’s Plan to Reach the 30% Clean Energy Mark by 2015

Electricity generated from clean energy would take up at least 30 percent of China’s total electricity generation during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period (from 2011 to 2015), the China Electricity Council predicted at a clean energy expo on Wednesday.

An official from the council said that electricity generation from clean energy, especially hydropower, nuclear power and wind power, would be a key part of China’s 2011-2015 electricity industry development plan. What seemed to be missing from the proclamation was solar, specifically solar thermal power.

In 2009, China’s clean energy electricity generation accounted for 25.5 percent of the total electricity generation. Specifically, hydropower took up 22.5 percent, and nuclear power and wind power took 1 percent and 2 percent, respectively. (

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Posted by Tracey A. Smith on Jun 24 2010. Filed under Carbon Offsets, China, Projects and Installations, Solar Thermal Industry News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry