Rural biomass development plan

In May 2007, the Ministry of Agriculture released the Agricultural Biomass Energy Industry Development Plan (2007-2015) to support the deployment of biomass-based energy in the transport, heat and power sectors. The Chinese government also designed specific generation targets to 2020. The Plan aims to develop biogas access in rural areas, mainstream efficient use of rural straw resources and deploy crops for biofuel production. The programme expects biogas generation to reach 19 billion m3 in 2010 and 44 billion m3 by 2020, the bio-ethanol one 3 Million tons in 2010 and 10 Million tons by 2020, and the bio-diesel generation to increase from 0.2 million tons in 2010 to 2 million tons by 2020. The plan seeks to install 5.5 GW of biomass-based power generation capacity in 2010 and 30 GW by 2020.

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