This message is part of a series of my recent travels in China. Stay tuned to step up efforts to become a greener China several posts.
I was on the road in China last week, even if I went to Trina Solar, one of the world's largest solar photovoltaic manufacturers location.
The tour was very impressive and it seemed to me so clearly what you can do targeted clean energy policies — we get through the US Congress of policies is not a type.
Responsible for the policies of the people's Republic of China is created thousands of good jobs and tax revenues and exports and pride to help shape prosperous and sustainable future. had been told that the name is Trina from harmony between people and the word the heavens, is actually quite fitting.
Trina Solar is only 13 years old, and it is already more than 10 000 employees and expects to complete the sale to double this year in the same way as it is the last four years.Speak with Trina leaders, I started to see how China could go to bit player PV-becoming a nation with 50% of global sales on the world market.
What is truly remarkable by the fact that only the Chinese short this transition over a period of five years.
This rapid growth does not happen by accident. clean energy sector at the forefront of Chinese location — the Sun PV panels, wind turbines, the high-speed rail system while at the same time, the very power and voltage electric vehicle, inter alia, by means of coordinated national effort — the Chinese Government is. Some problems have emerged recently around the information on this support, but see this solar plants first hand makes me understand what can happen if the Government develop a true actually focuses on the renewable industry.
China is increasingly recognised that these new energy industries is of major importance as a clean, efficient technology in its current dependence on coal-and oil-navigation.
Clean energy this support is a striking contrast to the United States, which will continue to support the dirty energy much more than clean.American efforts to move forward by the national legislation of the country to prevent the fossil fuels industry spending hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of the lobby Congress. that even today leads to deaths United States, tens of thousands of people are still allowed and even very modest programs promote sustainable future pollution is viewed with suspicion.
China is started up, move down a different path. Government passed to the Renewable Energy law that requires power companies to produce a certain amount of their electricity from renewable energy sources and helps pay the domestic feed-in tariffs and biomass power generation-wind.
And although 95% of the people's Republic of China PV panels are manufactured in the process of export, the Chinese Government still supports the PV installation at home.It will present newly 280 MW PV projects, campaigns, the amount, which would double the current capacity of the people's Republic of China Solar PV.
And the development of renewable energy sources over the last few years, the development of the people's Republic of China has just the taste of which is to come. If the national development and Reform Commission released soon ambitious 5 trillion RMB (736 billion euro) for the development of clean energy of the people's Republic of China clean energy industries in the next decade, that dwarfs the current clean energy plans in the United States, many times more than the details of the proposal.In addition, this week, Premier Wen Jiabao announced a package of policies which support NRDC and the other will examine carefully.
When Trina's r & d Department Deputy Director asked the company's future objectives of education systems, said he wants to continue with Trina and increase their efficiency PV panels, until they are competitive with fossil fuels.He thinks they can be achieved by streamlining production, reducing raw materials and components of price and technological breakthroughs into creation.
The Directors believe that Trina solar and other renewable energy technologies need some support now to scale up and down the cost, but they know that this support is only temporary, and they believe that renewable energy sources can compete and eventually is provided "as is".
I felt the same energy and excitement about the future of clean energy, when I went to the manufacturer in the United States last year solar panels They were too. with a view to improving their products and the role of solar PV and optimistic could provide us with a safe, sustainable, clean energy, information.And at that time, they too were expanding smart Government policy, which supports the use of clean energy. Yet it is possible that the paralysis of the victim's will support Us in the coming months.
American clean energy companies is not consistent to support their own economy. Washington, the Senate failed to clean energy and climate legislation, they shall be adopted by the long-term investment and strategic benefits of the same kind of u.s. clean-energy companies that Chinese Government offers its homegrown clean energy companies.
Thus, the u.s. clean energy companies — the same companies that created many of the basic technology for wind and solar energy in order to reduce the risk of further away from decades ago — and further away from global competitors behind, despite the US trade balance deficit. and unemployment, and even disaster Gulf oil Senate did not even vote on clean energy and carbon pollution Because of the United States is in the Bill. "stuck" mud kansankiihotus and fear of politics, Chinese Rushing forward.
And in the USA at the same time, the economic cost of fossil fuels to keep increasing. in addition, you can travel to China this summer, I spent the time in the Gulf of Mexico oil soaked, wetlands and Alberta dirty tar sands oil fields.
Thus the first hand how the u.s. with an outdated security of energy supply in the form of a devastating tolls shall be taken of environmental disasters, lost lives, lost jobs, closed fishing, explosive pipeline systems and the reply message is used to maintain ecosystems that make a living for residents of nearby.
My visit to China, confirmed that our misguided energy policy are also cost us jobs and as an economic opportunity.
When I enter my forthcoming book, in a Water Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf, Anatomy and How to End Our oil addiction, we do not have to settle for a 19th century approach to the energy sector, we are once again taken. technological innovation and energy efficiency.
We have to help our clean energy companies, before it is too late, but we now Start in the global market reach. China is ultimately expected to.
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