The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进

Today’s Green Hops, focusing on energy supply, is a continuation of yesterday’s.
Two important macro-policy documents are in the works.  CELB reports that the comprehensive Energy Law may be passed in 2010 (though this Chinese clipping suggests it may be as early as this year), and that the 12th Five-Year Plan for Energy (2011-2015) is in [...]

February 13th, 2009 | Tags: biofuels, China, coal, energy, environment, green hops, grid, hydropower, LNG, natural gas, nuclear, oil, renewable energy, solar, wind | Category: biofuels, government, green hops, hydro, nuclear, oil, policy, smart grid, solar, wind | Comments (1)

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)

Mobility
In the wake of more bad (good if you are for green) news in China’s auto sales trends, GLF is observing an increasingly resonant cacophony of green washing in the auto sector…
“Small is beautiful” seems to be the message by industry analysts to Chinese auto makers.  The government agrees, as evidenced by the new tax [...]

January 18th, 2009 | Tags: agriculture, automobiles, China, coal, energy, environment, green hops, grid, nuclear, oil, policy, renewable energy, solar, transportation, water, wind | Category: automotive, coal, green hops, hydro, nuclear, oil, rural development, smart grid, solar, uncategorized | Comments (4)

Energy Price Reforms
NDRC announced that it would be removing price caps on coal from next year in a move towards a more market-driven price mechanism.  This move comes at an opportune time when coal prices have dropped by 30 to 40% since the summer, but GLF points out an earlier post (see finding #4) on [...]

December 29th, 2008 | Tags: agriculture, automotive, Beijing, BP, BYD Auto, capital and finance, China, circular economy, cleaner coal, coal, electric vehicles, environment, fuel tax, Gansu, gas, green credit, green hops, green insurance, green whirlwinds, Guangdong, Guangxi, Himin Solar, Hubei, nuclear, oil, plug-in hybrids, policy, pollution, price controls, recycling, renewable energy, scrap, solar, Taiwan, venture capital, wind, Xinjiang, Zhejiang | Category: automotive, capital and finance, coal, government, green hops, nuclear, oil, policy, recylcling, solar, transportation, uncategorized, water | Leave a comment

You didn’t think The Green Leap Forward would go on to celebrate its first birthday (next week, folks!  December 2nd!) without commenting on the recently announced RMB 4 trillion (US$586 billion) pump-priming package did you?
Of course not.
The basics of the package is that a total of RMB 4 trillion will be spent by the central [...]

November 26th, 2008 | Tags: 4 trillion yuan, capital and finance, China, economic stimulus plan, environment, pump priming, renewable energy, smart grid, transportation, urban planning, wind | Category: capital and finance, coal, governance, government, smart grid, transportation, urban planning, wind | Comments (1)

The following is the complete transcript, modified and supplemented for completeness and readability, of the closing speech that the author of this blog (pictured below) delivered on November 11 at the JUCCCE Clean Energy Forum in Beijing.
We are at war.  A world war.  But unlike World War I or II, this is not a war [...]

November 13th, 2008 | Tags: biofuels, capital and finance, China, climate change, coal, ecocities, electric vehicles, electron economy, empowerment, governance, government, green buildings, information strategies, innovation, innovation exchange, JUCCCE, JUCCCE Forum, policy, renewable energy, smart grid, solar, technology transfer, transportation, urban planning, wind | Category: automotive, biofuels, capital and finance, climate change, coal, energy efficiency, governance, government, green buildings, information strategies, innovation, policy, rural development, smart grid, solar, transportation, urban planning, wind | Comments (6)

Despite the dire international financial straits and the tightening of credit markets, the consensus at a CEO panel at the Global/China Wind Power conference two weeks ago (Oct 29) is that China’s wind industry will continue its torrid growth in the long term.  China’s installed wind capacity has grown rapidly in recent years, doubling roughly [...]

November 12th, 2008 | Tags: China, China Composites Group, financial crisis, Goldwind, GWEC, interconnection, Nordex, policy, renewable energy, Siemens, Sinovel, turbines, vertical integration, wind | Category: capital and finance, wind | Comments (5)

Cleantech news has been slow on The Green Leap Forward lately, so we play catchup on recent developments in the sector over the past two months…

Efficiency is King. Energy efficiency continues to be the clean energy policy priority of Beijing. New regulations governing energy efficiency in civil construction projects are on the cards, [...]

September 22nd, 2008 | Tags: automotive, Beijing, bus rapid transit, BYD Auto, China, China Light & Power, clean coal, cleantech, coal liquefaction, coal-to-liquids, energy efficiency, energy storage, GE, green taxation, green whi, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hong Kong, liquefied natural gas, Ningxia, policy, renewable energy, Shanghai, solar, Taiwan, transportation, water, water scarcity, wind, Xiamen, Yingli Green Energy | Category: automotive, climate change, coal, energy efficiency, government, green hops, policy, solar, transportation, water, wind | Comments (2)

Earlier this spring this blog identified an upstart Chinese auto company called BYD Auto that is, despite is short operating history in the auto industry, introducing one of the most innovative automobile makes in the industry—a fully commercial electric car—ahead the likes of established auto giants like General Motors (and its flagship electric car make—the [...]

August 29th, 2008 | Tags: automobiles, automotive, BYD Auto, China, electric vehicles, electron economy, Green Olympics, green taxation, hybrids, international trade, Israel, policy, renewable energy | Category: automotive, policy | Comments (2)