China Environmental Law

There was a little more information in a China.org.cn story today about the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s construction ban on two large hydroelectric projects on the Jinsha River.  Both projects started construction in 2007 and both are owned by subsidiaries of large state-owned power producers (China Huaneng Group and China Huadian Corporation).  The pictures that [...]

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There have been plans for at least the last seven years to build a series of 13 dams on the middle and lower sections of the scenic Nu River in Yunnan Province.  This is no small project.  China Huadian, a state-owned power company, and developer of the project reports that “once completed the 13 dams [...]

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Citing an “industry source,” Reuters reported on Wednesday that “December power output from plants connected to major grids fell to 275.99 billion kilowatt hours, 6.4 percent down on December 2007,”  the third monthly year-on-year decline.  The article motes that the 7 percent year-on-year fall in November “was the biggest drop for a non-holiday month on [...]

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Caijing published an article yesterday which contained some encouraging news (somewhat less encouraging if you are not a big fan of nuclear) about the trends that emerged in China’s power sector in 2008.
Here are the interesting figures:
Totals:

Total investment in power sector: RMB 576.3 billion (1.52 percent more than the previous year, according to a report [...]

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