Construction of a large nuclear power plant started Sunday in south China's Hainan province.
China's largest offshore oil producer Cnooc plans to nearly double its annual imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by 2020, company President Fu Chengyu said on Friday.
China will choose the sea off eastern Jiangsu province to build the country's first batch of offshore wind power projects, an energy official said on Friday.
The ever-looming potential dark side of China's 4 trillion yuan stimulus package is that many schemes under construction could be serving only to create capacity for which there may be no obvious demand.
Banks urged to readjust lending
Technology key to keeping cutting edge
France is striving to invite more Chinese companies to invest in the country's green industry, a French investment official said Friday.
China saw an explosive growth of appliance sales in rural areas in the first quarter of this year on government policy to offer subsidies to farmers for appliance purchase, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said in a statement on its Web site Thursday.
The installed capacity of wind power in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region grew over 40 times to 7.3 million kilowatts by the end of March from 170,000 kw in 2005, figures released Thursday by a local power company showed.
Since drought ravaged
Yunnanin November last year, Greenpeace
Chinahas built solar-powered water pumping stations for free in areas with power shortage to guarantee local peasants irrigation water.
While the capital's per-capita GDP falls short of world city levels, Beijing has the potential to become a global leader in the "low-carbon" concept, experts said.
China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country's largest oil and gas producer, will speed up development of new energies including coalbed methane, fuel ethanol and oil sands, aiming to set its annual oil-equivalent production capacity at 1.25 million tons this year.
Chinese companies were behind the development of the low carbon economy, said a senior official of the China Business Council for Sustainable Development (CBCSD) at its annual meeting held here Tuesday.
China's meteorologists are not only forecasting sunshine and rain, they are also reading weather patterns to determine the best locations for establishing wind-based power plants.
Time running out on energy goals
China to ban sales of energy-wasting air conditioners
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