Wind energy could power all of China, study finds.

AuthorBlock, Ben
PositionEYE ON EARTH - Brief article

Wind energy could supply all of China's 2030 electricity demand if the country overhauls its grids and raises the subsidy for wind energy, according to researchers from Harvard and Tsinghua Universities. Their analysis, published in the journal Science in September, said that achieving this goal would require increasing wind contract prices from the current US$0.059 per kilo-watthour to $0.076 per kilowatthour.

Coal still supplies most of China's electricity. Rather than increase carbon dioxide emissions by 3.5 gigatons each year through 2030, as current policies would allow, the study determined that wind energy could replace 640 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired power. The switch would cut emissions by 30 percent and require an investment of some $900 billion.

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Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Gansu, and Tibet provinces hold large potential for wind energy...

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