Renewable Energy Development Targets

The Chinese governments has established a number of short- and medium-term targets for renewable energy designed to increase the share of renewable energy in Chinas energy portfolio. These targets are included in the eleventh five-year plan and the 2007 National Climate Change Programme, among other policy documents. The targets include: - to build 30 large-scale wind farms each with of more than 100Mw by 2010; - the achieve on-grid wind capacity of 10 GW by 2010; - to achieve biomass and waste fueled generation of more than 5.5 GW by 2010; - to increase the share of energy from renewable sources in the total primary energy consumption to 15% by 2020, up from 7.5% in 2005; - to increase on-grid wind turbine capacity to 20 GW by 2015 and 30 GW by 2020; - to provide for solar heating to the amoutn of 30 million square metres by 2020; and - to provide for 24 million cubic metres of biogas utilisation by 2020.

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