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China’s Stimulus Package: Energy & the Environment (II)

February 4th, 2009 · No Comments

China announced on Tuesday a second batch of investment as part of the 4 trillion yuan economic stimulus package announced in November of last year. 
The fund is the second batch of investment [totaling 130 billion yuan] from the central budget following a 100 billion yuan allocated in the fourth quarter of 2008. Both were included in [...]

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Tags: energy policy · nuclear · renewable energy · stimulus plan

China’s Power Sector Statistics for 2008

January 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments

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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Tags: carbon emissions · energy efficiency · hydro · nuclear · power generation · wind