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Much Ado About Solar

2009 may be shaping up to be the Year of Solar. No, really.

Although the Chinese solar manufacturing industry has been in a world of hurt for the past half year, things may be starting to turn around. Since the announcement of the first solar concession, the national Solar Roofs Program and Jiangsu province’s possible solar [...]

April 28th, 2009 | Tags: China, energy, environment, photovoltaic, solar | Category: solar | Comments (3)

Dawn of a New Era: The Gansu Solar Concession and Landmark Solar Roofs Program

Its been a HUGE week for solar. Bidding details on the first solar farm concession were announced, while a new solar roofs program to popularize photovoltaics (PV) in rural and urban areas has been launched. The Green Leap Forward discusses the details both developments and their implications to China’s domestic solar market.
Over the past weekend, [...]

March 27th, 2009 | Tags: China, distributed energy, energy, environment, Gansu, grid parity, photovoltaic, solar | Category: solar | Comments (13)

Solar at a Crossroads

Solar is been making the news in China for a mixed bag of reasons.
[Pictured right: a solar installation on a German football stadium using panels by Yingli Green Energy, a Chinese solar company based in Baoding in Henan province]
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced their Action Plan for Solar to ramp up research, development [...]

January 21st, 2009 | Tags: Action Plan for Solar, BEER, Beijing Energy & Environment Roundtable, Beijing Energy Network, BEN, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, energy, environment, photovoltaic, policy, polysilicon, PV, renewable energy, solar, Suntech, Yingli Green Energy | Category: policy, solar, uncategorized | Comments (3)

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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.