Once you start looking at charts, you just cannot stop, and following my post last week of , I cam across this interesting chart in the post China Adapts to the Climate Change Fashion Show which plots energy intensities for the US and China. Besides the typically WOW factor of look how much China has [...]

1. Chengdu promised: to give “one hour to the world” On February 1st, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) announced that the Municipal Government of Chengdu had promised on January 29th that it participate in the activity of the “Earth Hour 2010” at 20:30 of March 27th, which indicated Chengdu had become the first [...]

Day two at the Beijing smart grid conference: After spending much of the first day of the Beijing Smart grid conference discussing the definition and scope of smart grid for China, the second day of the conference was focused on how smartgrid was going to be rolled out, what some of the solutions would be, [...]

While many in China, and out, have been focused on the impressive speed by which China has been able to grow its economy over the last 15 years, those inside the central party have been focused on ensuring that the economic energy had its energy needs met. Made difficult by the fact that the highest [...]

While the traditional focus of discussions surrounding cleantech uptake have been largely market driven. That, for renewable energies to compete with fossil fuels, the price per KwH had to be below the going rate for fossil, regardless of what the negative economic, environmental, or political externalities were.   It was what seemed to me an unreasonable [...]

The Beijing Review article Going Solar is an excellent piece showing the industry as one is poorly structured, and one that will see changes.

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has released a filming of their recent Event, The Future of Green Business in China. Terry Yosie, President and CEO of World Environment Center and Ye Weijia, head of New Ventures China, discuss green businesses in China. They discuss the work their companies have already done, while anticipating [...]

While the rumors over the final green stimulus are flying right now, it is good to see that at least the first 3.4 billion has been allocated: Of the 23 billion yuan spending, 13 billion went to improving urban water treatment facilities, 4 billion yuan to pollution prevention projects on the Huaihe and other big [...]

Early on in my time in China, it was clear to me that the system in China was well suited for developing technologies that would become leader in the cleantech space. They were investing in battery technologies that were going to power mobile phones and laptops to be exported in consumer goods, but the underlying [...]

It began with a run up of wind stocks (perhaps aided by some hot air), and more recently the discussion has been on the fact that the largest wind farms in the world are now being planted in China. BOOMING WIND POWER MARKET AND INDUSTRY IN CHINA by Shi Pengfei of the Chinese Wind Energy [...]