{"id":33718,"date":"2016-03-15T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:45:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:45:58","slug":"8718-book-review-china-s-renewable-energy-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/energy\/8718-book-review-china-s-renewable-energy-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: China\u2019s Renewable Energy Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">Looking at the fortunes of Italian cities in the <\/span><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">16<\/span>th century, the philosopher and economist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Serra\">Antonio Serra<\/a> drew a comparison between the wealth of Venice, booming due to trade and manufacturing, and the poverty of Naples, which had based its economy on the mining of metals.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">It might seem an unusual point to find in a monograph about China&rsquo;s electric power system, but the contrast, for the scholars John Mathews and Hao Tan, is an important one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-068692f9-7b32-680f-ffee-02ec3ba6147a\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/chinadialogue-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/content_image\/content_image\/911\/9781137546241.jpg\" style=\"float: left; width: 153px; height: 245px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px;\" \/><\/span><span>China, they write, is &ldquo;liberating itself&rdquo; from the extractive economy around fossil fuels, with all its hostile &ldquo;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/176112\/tomgram%3A_michael_klare,_a_take-no-prisoners_world_of_oil\/\">geopolitical entanglements<\/a>&rdquo; and negative local and global environmental impacts.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">Instead, it is becoming the &ldquo;world&rsquo;s first case of a country breaking free of carbon lock-in by building its own renewable energy industries&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>This process, they argue, is &ldquo;primarily motivated by concerns over its immediate pollution, as well as issues of energy security and industrial development in the medium and longer run&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Reductions in the carbon emissions that cause climate change are not the end point. Rather, they are a &ldquo;highly convenient side-effect&rdquo; of this grand political-economic transition.<\/p>\n<p>Recognising this, the authors argue that massive investments in a power grid that can better support the development of renewables should be seen as China&rsquo;s &ldquo;21<\/span>st century great infrastructure project&rdquo; &ndash; comparable to the building of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Canal_%28China%29\">Grand Canal<\/a>, completed during the Sui dynasty in the 7th century AD &ndash; which will give the country a good chance of escaping the fossil fuel-reliance that afflicted &ldquo;earlier industrial powers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">Just as Germany and the UK dominated coal-based technologies in the <\/span><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">19<\/span>th century, and the US became world-leader in oil-based technologies in the 20th century, Mathews and Tan see China emerging as world leader in the products and technologies around electric power from renewable sources like solar and wind. The country is poised to create &ldquo; a new energy paradigm with epochal implications&rdquo;, they argue.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">These far-reaching conclusions are not conjecture: the authors base their conclusions on recent data about China&rsquo;s electricity generation, investment, patents and more.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular value is the authors&rsquo; grounding in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/p\/aug\/augsbe\/0278.html\">theory<\/a> of innovation and industrial dynamics. Mathews and Tan explain convincingly, for example, how the likely transition pathway from &ldquo;black&rdquo; (fossil) industries to green &ndash; as entrepreneurs commit to a new industries, and others seek to follow them &ndash; could become &ldquo;self-reinforcing, self-sustaining and irreversible&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">They explain how China&rsquo;s scale of production has exploited the cost reductions, for solar panels and wind turbines for example, that come with accumulated experience, helping China to generate a quarter of its electricity from non-thermal sources.<\/p>\n<p>Recent data show drastic growth in solar power generation. Interestingly, the authors also argue, based on this data, that since wind and solar generated electricity already both exceed nuclear, &nbsp;China will not be dependent on nuclear for its non-carbon sources of electric <\/span>power.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">This &ldquo;iron law of the learning curve&rdquo;, combined with industrial strategy and &ldquo;well-formulated targets&rdquo; under its Five Year Plans, has contributed to China&rsquo;s disarticulation of energy consumption from economic growth. Last year saw a possible peak in coal consumption, as well as declining coal production and thermal power generation: &ldquo;a momentous triple milestone for China and for the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics of power<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Still, for a study that seeks &ldquo;to engage with the political economy of China&rsquo;s renewable energy transition&rdquo;, their analysis feels light on politics. The impression isn&rsquo;t helped by occasional inconsistencies and misspellings of elite figures and institutions.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">More substantively, there are many energy <\/span>policies mentioned throughout the monograph. And while this attention is helpful and necessary, the reader might come away with the assumption that these policies had a history of technocratic formulation and effective implementation.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">Greater attention to the <\/span>politics of electricity in China &ndash; both elite and ground-level &ndash; might at least change the texture of the analysis. Or put another way, the book is focused on energy, but has less to say about power.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">At the central level, it could have illuminated the history of protracted bargaining and conflicts around electricity sector reform, about which I would have expected to read more.<\/p>\n<p>At the local level, there are many more questions one might ask: how will provincial-level officials in coal counties adjust to a slowing, innovation-based economy, if this means reskilling an enormous workforce, or dealing with the social consequences of mass unemployment? How do local people feel about huge, land-based renewable-energy installations that generate electricity for faraway cities, and revenue for utilities, but little in terms of local jobs? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottom-up innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the top-down focus of the book means it overlooks a number of interesting bottom-up dynamics &ndash; not only industrial, but also social &ndash; that are shaping China&rsquo;s energy transition.<\/p>\n<p>There are, for example, demand-led successes to be found in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/7580-Small-scale-solar-is-a-big-player-in-China-s-clean-energy-mix\">widespread uptake of solar-water heaters<\/a> in China&rsquo;s rural areas, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/3704-Game-changing-China-1-\">electric bicycles<\/a> using lithium-ion batteries in urban areas. NGOs and socially minded first-adopters of solar PV have driven the implementation of the feed-in tariff, often despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/7522-Small-scale-solar-stalls-at-China-s-city-limits-\">resistance<\/a> from local grids.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">Public anxieties and even protest is likely to shape policy-making around the country&rsquo;s low-carbon energy choices, particularly where <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/7336-China-s-nuclear-expansion-threatened-by-public-unease\">nuclear<\/a> is concerned. And in some cases, local or municipal governments (such as in Shandong province and, in particular, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/3707-Game-changing-China-2-\">Dezhou<\/a> city) seem to have provided crucial support for green innovation, complementing central government R&amp;D programmes.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">Overall, however, <\/span><em>China&rsquo;s Renewable Energy Revolution <\/em>is a valuable, concise and up-to-date guide to key aspects of China&rsquo;s unfolding transition &ndash; one that is vital not only for the country but also for the global climate.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">Its concluding message, for advanced economies looking to counter the competitive threat posed by China&rsquo;s strong support for low-carbon technologies, is also one that resonated strongly with this reviewer: to abandon trade retaliation, and instead to support similarly aggressive industrial policy that will drive green innovation and market expansion at home.<\/p>\n<p>However, the obstacle here again &ndash; in the US or UK today, much as it would have been in <\/span><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-55b70ce5-7b2d-8eaa-a343-26e55d9cad3f\">16<\/span>th century Italy &ndash; is less the lack of smart policies, than it is the politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John A Mathews and Hao Tan&rsquo;s new book provides an excellent account of the policies driving China&rsquo;s green transition &ndash; &nbsp;but feels light on politics and power, writes&nbsp;<strong>Sam Geall<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":58567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[757],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-33718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy"],"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>Book review: China\u2019s Renewable Energy Revolution | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"John A Mathews and Hao Tan&rsquo;s new book provides an excellent account of the policies driving China&rsquo;s green transition &ndash; 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