China Going Turbo with Wind Power
From Yahoo News via AFP:
China is set to become the world’s third largest wind power producer in 2009, state media reported, as the Asian giant seeks various ways to expand energy supply to power its economic boom.
The country’s installed wind power capacity will reach 20 gigawatts this year, said Shi Lishan, vice director of the National Energy Administration’s New Energy Department, the Xinhua news agency said Wednesday.
That will lift China to surpass Spain and become the world’s third biggest wind power producer after the United States and Germany, the report said.
The United States had 25.2 gigawatts in installed capacity of wind power in 2008, or 20.8 percent of the world’s total, compared with China’s capacity of 12.2 gigawatts, figures from the Global Wind Energy Council showed.
China has set a target of generating 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources — mainly wind and water — by 2020.
