Crystal Ball: China will not produce more wind energy than the U.S. before 2020 | The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进

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By Sustainable John Feb.26.2013
Looking into my green crystal ball, here’s my bold prediction about the US-China “wind energy race,” if there ever was such a thing.

Around this time last year, I blogged about some misconceptions on U.S. and China’s installed wind capacity and wind energy generation, highlighting that the U.S. was producing 64% more wind energy than China in 2011 with the same amount of turbines. I explained the reasons for this including China’s difficulties with their Renewable Energy Law, grid connection bottlenecks, and performance gaps due to technology and wind resource issues. In this blog, I’d like to provide a quick update on the U.S. and China wind energy development using newly released 2012 data, and then offer up a prediction for the rest of the decade.

 

Using data from China Electricity Council, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), and the EIA, here are the key facts for wind development in 2012:

• According to GWEC, the U.S. and China installed nearly the same amount of wind capacity in 2012 with 13.1 gigawatts (GW) and 13.2 GW, respectively. This was a record year for the U.S. (previous record was 10 GW in 2009).
• Of that 13.1 GW installed in the U.S., 5.5 GW was installed in December alone, as project developers rushed to bring their assets online ahead of the expiration of the Production Tax Credit (PTC, which later ended up being extended).
• China now has more grid connected wind capacity than the U.S. with 62 GW compared to the U.S.’s 60 GW, but the U.S. produced 40% more wind energy than China in 2012.
• 83% of wind turbines (or 5 of 6) in China are grid connected now, compared with a low of 63% in 2009, providing evidence that China’s grid connection bottleneck is easing.
• Wind accounted for 3.5% of total electricity generation in the U.S. in 2012, compared to 2.0% in China.

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Looking into my green crystal ball, here’s my bold prediction about the US-China “wind energy race,” if there ever was such a thing.

Around this time last year, I blogged about some misconceptions on U.S. and China’s installed wind capacity and wind energy generation, highlighting that the U.S. was producing 64% more wind energy than China in 2011 with the same amount of turbines. I explained the reasons for this including China’s difficulties with their Renewable Energy Law, grid connection bottlenecks, and performance gaps due to technology and wind resource issues. In this blog, I’d like to provide a quick update on the U.S. and China wind energy development using newly released 2012 data, and then offer up a prediction for the rest of the decade. ….(read more)….

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General Motors is becoming China Motors

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Published on May 4, 2012

General Motors is becoming China Motors. Forget the spin. The evidence is clear and convincing. Did U.S. taxpayers save GM for China? Listen to the candid comments of GM’s CEO.

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China gets blunt at Copenhagen summit

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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2009

Even as the world powers try to hammer out a contract at the climate summit, the tempers in Copenhagen are running high. In a rather harsh use of language Chinese vice foreign minister has called US climate negotiator extremely irresponsible.

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India and China: “Developed Countries Should Lead on Emissions Cuts”

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Uploaded on Dec 4, 2009

At the United Nations climate change summit to be held in Copenhagen in December, much of the spotlight will be on Asian giants India and China. They are demanding that rich countries take the lead in reversing global warming, but are reluctant to accept a cap on their own carbon emissions. From New Delhi, Anjana Pasricha examines the position that the world’s most populous countries have adopted on this issue.

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Durban: India’s Comments on Kyoto Principle of ‘Common but differentiated responsibilities…”

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Uploaded on Dec 10, 2011

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EPA’s Health and Environmental Research Online—or HERO

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2013 March 13

By Pawlos Girmay

I recently had an opportunity to speak with Gerry Gurevich, the technical lead for EPA’s Health and Environmental Research Online—or HERO—database, which serves as a central location for the scientific information EPA researchers use to develop environmental and health assessments. Gerry explained some of the benefits of the HERO database and the changes that will occur over the coming months.

For starters, HERO has greatly enhanced transparency by providing links to the references and abstracts of the scientific literature used in two important types of Agency assessments: (1) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessments, which evaluate information on the potential health effects that may result from exposure to environmental contaminants, and (2) Integrated Science Assessments (ISAs), reports that summarize the science related to the health and ecological effects caused by the six criteria air pollutants for which EPA develops National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

With approximately 725,000 references, there is an abundance of information. If you need a scientific reference from an ISA or IRIS assessment, HERO will have it! … (read more).

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Fault Lines Extra: Why Affluent Americans Decline Interviews

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Uploaded on Jul 29, 2011

Presenter Zeina Awad describes the challenge of interviewing subjects on the topic of their personal wealth in this video extra from the upcoming episode of Al Jazeera Fault Lines.

“We knocked on so many doors…and no one would talk to us.”

The new episode of Fault Lines, “The Top 1%,” first airs on Al Jazeera English August 1, 2011 at 2230 GMT.

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Undoing the New Deal

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Published on Mar 9, 2013

PT2 On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Roosevelt’s election and the introduction of the New Deal, Jennifer Taub and John Weeks discuss the post-war period and how successive administrations dismantled it

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Inequality and the Environment

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Published on Mar 12, 2013

James Boyce: In places where the income gap is greatest, the environment is more degraded for everyone

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