China's energy industrial revolution

摘要

In a recent article in Carbon Management, J Kejun of the Energy Research Institute in Beijing outlined his arguments as to why China's carbon emissions could be expected to peak before 2025 . This is based on realistic assessments of China's ongoing shift towards renewable energy sources and projected peaking in coal consumption. Lord Stern, author of the Stern report on climate change, concurs; he was quoted in the Financial Times in September to the effect that, according to his information, China is indeed formulating new targets to cap its carbon emissions by 2025, and its coal consumption by 2020 . Such aggressive targets seem to be backed by individual targets for renewables such as for wind power, which is now anticipated to hit 100 GW by 2015 and 200 GW by 2020 - putting China far in advance of other industrial countries. For solar photovoltaic, the target now appears to be 35 GW by 2015, according to the latest government policy for the development of the solar photovoltaics (PV) industry released in June 2013.