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Archive for July, 2009

Putting China’s Coal Power Sector in its Proper Perspective

Greenpeace China has released a short briefing paper entitled “Polluting Power: Ranking of China’s Power Companies.”  Its objective–to provide a balanced analysis of the ten biggest power companies of China across various metrics such as coal consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, and share of renewable power.  It does a credible job, and provides an interesting picture [...]

Moon Landing, Solar Eclipse, and now…Solar Takeoff! China launches “Golden Sun” subsidies for 500 MW of PV projects by 2012

This post is dedicated to my “golden son/sun”, Keane, who just turned one yesterday.
It is with interesting irony that China has launched its much anticipated Golden Sun program of incentives for the deployment of 500 MW of large-scale solar PV projects throughout the country the day after the 40th annivesary of the America’s landing on [...]

And we’re back…Seizing the clean energy economic opportunity

Apologies for the prolonged absence!  It’s gotten a little busy at work, but you will be pleased to know that much of that has been related to working on China energy issues.  We owe you a backlog of updates on China’s green scene and MUCH has happened…but still no new energy stimulus package yet.   In [...]


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What is the Green Leap Forward?

The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social plan used from 1958 to 1960 which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform mainland China from a primarily agrarian economy dominated by peasant farmers into a modern, industrialized communist society. It is now widely seen, both within and outside of China, as an major economic (and environmental) disaster.

By contrast, the Green Leap Forward, is an emerging movement to harness and combine the powerful forces of smart policy, sustainable finance and green technologies to steer China's red-hot economy onto a more ecologically and socially sustainable path. Unlike its predecessor, the Green Leap Forward is as much a bottom-up revolution as it is a top-down one and in this age of increasing global interconnectedness, is a movement that will have an impact beyond its borders.

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