{"id":28076,"date":"2009-06-10T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:39:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:39:01","slug":"3076-china-to-exceed-green-energy-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3076-china-to-exceed-green-energy-target\/","title":{"rendered":"China \u201cto exceed green-energy target\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&ldquo;Personally, I think we could reach the target of having renewables provide 20% of total energy consumption,&rdquo; Zhang said on a visit to London. That figure matches Europe&rsquo;s goal and would challenge European claims to world leadership in the renewable-energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>China also seeks to install 100 million energy-efficient light bulbs this year alone. The country plans to achieve its goals by directing a large share of its US$590-billion economic stimulus package to low-carbon investment. More than US$30 billion of that figure is to be spent directly on environmental projects and reducing greenhouse-gas emissions linked to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Enterprises and government at all levels are showing more enthusiasm for the development of solar for power generation,&rdquo; Zhang told the <i>Guardian<\/i>, &ldquo;and the Chinese government is now considering rolling out more stimulus policies for the development of solar power.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>See <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/jun\/09\/china-green-energy-solar-wind\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>full story<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a vast increase in wind and solar power, China aims to produce one-fifth of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2020, according to a senior Chinese official. Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice-chairman of the national development and reform commission, told the<em> Guardian <\/em>that China will easily exceed its 15% target &ndash; reaching at least 18% and perhaps even 20%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-28076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China \u201cto exceed green-energy target\u201d | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With a vast increase in wind and solar power, China aims to produce one-fifth of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2020, according to a senior Chinese official. 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