China Cementing Global Dominance of Renewable Energy and Technology

[ahojunk]

Biogas (methane) is also renewable energy

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China plans 50 billion yuan of investment in rural methane projects
(Xinhua) 13:40, February 11, 2017

China will spend 50 billion yuan (about 7.3 billion U.S. dollars) on building methane projects in rural areas as the government seeks to increase the use of clean energy.

According to a plan released by the country's top economic planner, during the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) period, China will build 172 new biogas projects and 3,150 large-scale methane projects.

The plan aims to increase the country's methane producing capacity by 4.9 billion cubic meters, replace the equivalent of 3.49 million tonnes of standard coal with cleaner energy and cut carbon emissions by 17.62 million tonnes.

The projects will benefit more than 230 million rural residents.

China's fast-growing economy has seen rural energy consumption surge and the rapid expansion of the livestock breeding and agro-industries. These rural businesses create billions of tons of biomass waste annually, which can potentially be used to produce energy.

According to official estimates, China generates 1.4 billion tonnes of rural waste materials annually that could be used for methane production. This amount of waste could produce 73.6 billion cubic meters of biogas and replace 87.6 million tonnes of standard coal.

 

[ahojunk]

China benefits as Brexit 'Hammers' UK Fintech
2017-02-15 11:19:44 CRIENGLISH.com Web Editor: Zhang Xu

Specialist publication Law360 has revealed that, whilst fintech investment in the UK
fell by roughly a third in 2016, it increased by 84 percent in China. [Photo: Baidu.com]​

By Rupert Reid for Sino.uk

The future of the United Kingdom as a hub of fintech appears to be in doubt, after reports that investment in the sector has crumbled due to uncertainty over Brexit.

Whilst that's bad news for the UK, it might be good news for China.

Specialist publication Law360 has revealed that, whilst fintech investment in the UK fell by roughly a third in 2016, it increased by 84 percent in China.

Fintech is short for financial technology, a fast-growing area of start-up development, based on using software to provide financial services.

As recently as October, we'd reported that two front-runners had emerged in the battle to be the future home of the fintech industry, China and London.

London now appears to be losing the race. Analysts place the blame for this firmly with Brexit. Not only has the vote to leave the European Union raised uncertainty about access to international markets from the United Kingdom, it has also created concerns about recruitment.

A large number of fintech workers in the UK aren't British, but come from Europe and further afield.

Companies (not just in fintech) are increasingly concerned that Brexit will hamper their ability to recruit and retain staff from outside the UK.

Total global investment into fintech continues to increase at a rapid pace.

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[Bussard Ramjet]

Get the fvck out of your India mind！You are a way way behind as a backward country！Stop watching China through a RAPIST eye！

Firstly, I am sure abuse is not allowed here.

Secondly, Sanchez, I admit, India is way behind compared to China. I know that, and I scream it to anyone. Similarly, China is still behind established industrial powers. China mostly dominates the lower and middle sections of the manufacturing Chain, not yet the higher rugs of it.

 

[Pepsi Cola]

Firstly, I am sure abuse is not allowed here.

Secondly, Sanchez, I admit, India is way behind compared to China. I know that, and I scream it to anyone. Similarly, China is still behind established industrial powers. China mostly dominates the lower and middle sections of the manufacturing Chain, not yet the higher rugs of it.

Chill down a little. Don't have to scrutinize another person's comment to find every single wrong detail and start a flame war over it. Tons of Indians are doing that, boasting their nations' achievement and hallucinating its position in the world, I'm sure you don't treat them the same right? Some times, it's okay to let a thing or two slide.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

Chill down a little. Don't have to scrutinize another person's comment to find every single wrong detail and start a flame war over it. Tons of Indians are doing that, boasting their nations' achievement and hallucinating its position in the world, I'm sure you don't treat them the same right? Some times, it's okay to let a thing or two slide.

Whenever I come against delusional Indians, I post in a similar zeal.

Just look at my recent comments on India's space launch, demonetization, and supposed "Helium mining by 2030."

 

[onebyone]

China is leading the charge for lithium-ion factories

Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 has been a center of attention for people interested in the growing momentum behind green energy, electric cars, and battery production. Therefore, it is no surprise that this facility was in the news again last month, with Tesla starting to mass produce batteries as it ramps up to its goal of 35GWh of capacity and beyond.

However, as exciting as this project is, it’s actually just one of multiple large-scale “megafactories” being built – with many of them being in China.


Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist


CHINA LEADING THE CHARGE

We talked to Simon Moores, Managing Director at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, who explained that Tesla isn’t alone or unique in its ambitions to build lithium-ion batteries at scale:

While the Tesla Gigafactory is vitally important from an EV vertical integration perspective, the majority of new lithium-ion battery capacity is being built in China. Some of these plants are expected to be huge such as the CATL facility at 50GWh – there is little doubt that China’s lithium-ion industry has come of age.

Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) has plans to build the largest lithium-ion megafactory of all – but the company is little known in North America. It’s already worth $11.5 billion, and could be a dominant force globally in the battery sector if it successfully increases its lithium-ion production capacity six-fold to 50GWh by the year 2020.

Other Chinese manufacturers are on a similar trajectory. Panasonic, LG Chem, and Boston Power are building new megafactory plants in China, while companies such as Samsung and BYD are expanding existing ones. All lithium-ion plants in China currently have a capacity of 16.4GWh – but by 2020, they will combine for a total of 107.5GWh.

CAPACITY BY COUNTRY

This ramp up in China means that the country will have 62% of the world’s lithium-ion battery production capacity by 2020.

There are only three other players in the megafactory game: United States, South Korea, and Poland.

Visual Capitalist

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http://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-leading-the-charge-for-lithium-ion-factories-2017-2

 

[AndrewJin]

From the map it seems there will be a lot of foreign investments as well as domestic investments in China.

 

[shadows888]

the USA would be screwed without Tesla

 

[cirr]

Whoever wrote this piece of sh1t needs to brush up his/her knowledge of China's lithium battery sector.

The capacity numbers regarding China, present or future, are totally and utterly wrong.

 

[ahojunk]

World's largest solar farm

NASA photo showcases China’s Longyangxia Dam Solar Park, world’s largest solar farm
(People's Daily Online) 17:19, February 23, 2017

On Feb. 18, NASA’s Earth Observatory featured an aerial view of the largest solar farm in the world: Longyangxia Dam Solar Park in northwestern China’s Qinghai province. The park is operated by State Power Investment Cooperation, one of China’s top five power generators.

The photo was captured by NASA’s Operational Land Imager (OLI) onboard the Lansat 8 satellite.

Since construction started in 2013, the colossal solar park has been steadily expanding, and now covers an area of more than 27 square kilometers. The massive farm so far contains nearly 4 million solar panels.

The 850 MWp hybrid hydro-solar project has proven effective in solving the volatility and intermittent quality of PV power output, thus improving the stability of grid operations.

China's installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity rose to 77.42 gigawatts (GW) by the end of 2016, nearly doubling from 2015. This jump made China the world's largest producer of solar energy by capacity, according to a news release from the National Energy Administration on Feb. 4.

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[TaiShang]

World's largest solar farm

NASA photo showcases China’s Longyangxia Dam Solar Park, world’s largest solar farm
(People's Daily Online) 17:19, February 23, 2017

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On Feb. 18, NASA’s Earth Observatory featured an aerial view of the largest solar farm in the world: Longyangxia Dam Solar Park in northwestern China’s Qinghai province. The park is operated by State Power Investment Cooperation, one of China’s top five power generators.

The photo was captured by NASA’s Operational Land Imager (OLI) onboard the Lansat 8 satellite.

Since construction started in 2013, the colossal solar park has been steadily expanding, and now covers an area of more than 27 square kilometers. The massive farm so far contains nearly 4 million solar panels.

The 850 MWp hybrid hydro-solar project has proven effective in solving the volatility and intermittent quality of PV power output, thus improving the stability of grid operations.

China's installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity rose to 77.42 gigawatts (GW) by the end of 2016, nearly doubling from 2015. This jump made China the world's largest producer of solar energy by capacity, according to a news release from the National Energy Administration on Feb. 4.

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Solar and wind energy investments should always go hand in hand with grid development. Not just national grid, but also regional (Northeast Asia) grid development.

 

[onebyone]

China’s world-beating solar farm is almost as big as Macau, Nasa satellite images reveal

US space agency Nasa has released remarkable images of a growing landscape of clean energy generation

PUBLISHED : Friday, 24 February, 2017, 3:04pm
UPDATED : Friday, 24 February, 2017, 3:36pm

24 Feb 2017

The US space agency Nasa has released spectacular satellite images of the world’s biggest solar farm, which sits on the Tibetan Plateau in China.

The images published last week show how the Longyangxia Dam Solar Park in northwestern Qinghai province grew from a small cluster of panels to become a sprawling farm with 4 million solar panels in just four years.

The images of the 27 square kilometre solar farm – the world’s largest – were captured by Nasa’s Landsat 8 satellite in April 2013 and last month.

The farm is almost the size of Macau, which is about 30 sq km, and can generate 850 megawatts of clean energy, enough to supply power to 200,000 households.

On social media, where Nasa’s images were shared widely, internet users expressed awe at the massive display.

How China has embraced renewable energy and Hong Kong hasn’t, and what’s behind city’s green power inertia

One Facebook user wrote: “That’s amazing! I’m glad to see that China is using this kind of technology.”

On Twitter, another user suggested: “China should consider engineering space-based solar power stations.”

Another Twitter user shared an image of the solar farm taken from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite.

View image on Twitter

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Harald Zandler @HZandler
#ESA #Sentinel2 image shows dimensions of world's largest photovoltaic power plant with 850 MWp: #Longyangxia Solar #China #renewableenergy

4:17 PM - 21 Feb 2017

Both Facebook and Twitter are blocked in China.

The Longyangxia Dam Solar Park is China’s latest in a long line of large-scale solar energy projects.

A solar farm in the city of Cixi in eastern Zhejiang province made the news recently for installing 300 hectares of solar panels above a fish farm.

Strong progress by Chinese solar power generators will see subsidies eliminated by 2025

The farm is expected to generate 220 gigawatt hours of electricity a year – enough power for 100,000 households – according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.

Last September, Bloomberg reported that a 2GW capacity solar farm with 6 million solar panels was being built in the Ningxia autonomous region, which would make it the the world’s largest solar plant.

China is the world’s largest solar power producer by capacity, with total installed capacity of 77.4GW at the end of 2016, the National Energy Administration said this month.

Yang Hongxing, a renewable energy professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, said China had become a world leader in solar energy in the last two years as the central government intensified new energy development to resolve its pollution woes.

“China is likely to stay a leader in this area for the next few years or for an even longer,” Yang said.

“The low cost of building photovoltaic modules (solar panels) in China is the country’s main advantage. Many modules in the US and Europe are made in China.”

China sets up laboratory to research building solar power station in space

The government was also encouraging the private sector to invest in renewable energy by subsidising clean power generation, the professor said.

China’s main challenge, however, was in transmitting the solar power farmed from sparsely populated northwestern regions like Qinghai and Ningxia to the coastal cities, Yang said.

The country lacked the infrastructure to efficiently transmit power across regions, he said.

“Some of these solar energy plants have to shut [for some time each year] because there is no use for such energy in those regions,” he said.

Solar plants generated 66.2GW of China’s electricity last year, accounting for 1 per cent of the country’s total power generated, according to the National Energy Administration’s statistics.

The country aims to boost the proportion of electricity generated from non-fossil fuel sources to 20 per cent by 2030 from 11 per cent today. It also plans to plough 2.5 trillion yuan (HK$2.82 trillion) into renewable power generation by 2020.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/soci...s-worlds-largest-solar-energy-farms-are-china

 

[powastick]

Battery Wars – China Beating Tesla In The Gigafactory Race

Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 has been a center of attention for people interested in the growing momentum behind green energy, electric cars, and battery production. Therefore, it is no surprise that this facility was in the news again last month, with Tesla starting to mass produce batteries as it ramps up to its goal of 35GWh of capacity and beyond.

However, as exciting as this project is, it’s actually just one of multiple large-scale “megafactories” being built – with many of them being in China.

China leading the charge

We talked to Simon Moores, Managing Director at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, who explained that Tesla isn’t alone or unique in its ambitions to build lithium-ion batteries at scale:

While the Tesla Gigafactory is vitally important from an EV vertical integration perspective, the majority of new lithium-ion battery capacity is being built in China. Some of these plants are expected to be huge such as the CATL facility at 50GWh – there is little doubt that China’s lithium-ion industry has come of age.

Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) has plans to build the largest lithium-ion megafactory of all – but the company is little known in North America. It’s already worth $11.5 billion, and could be a dominant force globally in the battery sector if it successfully increases its lithium-ion production capacity six-fold to 50GWh by the year 2020.

Other Chinese manufacturers are on a similar trajectory. Panasonic, LG Chem, and Boston Power are building new megafactory plants in China, while companies such as Samsung and BYD are expanding existing ones. All lithium-ion plants in China currently have a capacity of 16.4GWh – but by 2020, they will combine for a total of 107.5GWh.

Capacity by country

This ramp up in China means that the country will have 62% of the world’s lithium-ion battery production capacity by 2020.

There are only three other players in the megafactory game: United States, South Korea, and Poland.



Above estimates on battery capacity courtesy of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.

 

[TaiShang]

This ramp up in China means that the country will have 62% of the world’s lithium-ion battery production capacity by 2020.

That's a significant share of the global capacity by 2020. I believe that China's share will go beyond that number because of the immense investment that is being made at the moment. Besides, China's market is more ready for NE-Vehicles and it has a number of big players that provide affordable options for mass consumption.

China's environmental policies are also becoming major driving force toward the creation of a greater market capacity.

 

[AndrewJin]

Poland?

Battery Wars – China Beating Tesla In The Gigafactory Race

Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 has been a center of attention for people interested in the growing momentum behind green energy, electric cars, and battery production. Therefore, it is no surprise that this facility was in the news again last month, with Tesla starting to mass produce batteries as it ramps up to its goal of 35GWh of capacity and beyond.

However, as exciting as this project is, it’s actually just one of multiple large-scale “megafactories” being built – with many of them being in China.

China leading the charge


We talked to Simon Moores, Managing Director at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, who explained that Tesla isn’t alone or unique in its ambitions to build lithium-ion batteries at scale:

While the Tesla Gigafactory is vitally important from an EV vertical integration perspective, the majority of new lithium-ion battery capacity is being built in China. Some of these plants are expected to be huge such as the CATL facility at 50GWh – there is little doubt that China’s lithium-ion industry has come of age.

Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) has plans to build the largest lithium-ion megafactory of all – but the company is little known in North America. It’s already worth $11.5 billion, and could be a dominant force globally in the battery sector if it successfully increases its lithium-ion production capacity six-fold to 50GWh by the year 2020.

Other Chinese manufacturers are on a similar trajectory. Panasonic, LG Chem, and Boston Power are building new megafactory plants in China, while companies such as Samsung and BYD are expanding existing ones. All lithium-ion plants in China currently have a capacity of 16.4GWh – but by 2020, they will combine for a total of 107.5GWh.

Capacity by country

This ramp up in China means that the country will have 62% of the world’s lithium-ion battery production capacity by 2020.

There are only three other players in the megafactory game: United States, South Korea, and Poland.



Above estimates on battery capacity courtesy of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.

Pls build a factory in Central China!