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China expands energy storage capacity to utilize more renewables

August 5, 2024 CEN_com 0

China’s energy storage capacity is expanding to facilitate the utilization of growing renewable power amid the country’s efforts to advance its green energy transition. China’s installed new-type energy storage capacity had reached 44.44 gigawatts by of the end of June, expanding 40 percent compared with the end of last year, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Wednesday. Lithium-ion batteries accounted for 97 percent of China’s new-type energy storage capacity […]

China backs renewable energy uptake in Cambodia

July 31, 2024 CEN_com 0

Chinese companies play important role in Cambodia’s solar development. In 2018, Hengtong Optic-Electric secured the rights to build the country’s second-largest solar farm, which has a capacity of 200MW. Additionally, late last year, the China Datang Corporation announced a $600 million investment in solar and wind projects in Cambodia. In April 2024 representatives of CHN Energy Investment Group Co. LTD, a Chinese state-owned energy company, met with the the Council […]

China’s 3rd Plenum Resolution and Ecological Civilization

July 30, 2024 CEN_com 0

What did China’s 3rd Plenum Resolution say about Ecological Civilization? China Ecological Civilization newsletter regularly reports on Chinese government documents with importance to ecological civilization. Its latest report is on the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization. It’s a long title. But the core is simple — improving ecological civilization construction related mechanisms. The Resolution is a […]

Italy, China sign three-year action plan

July 29, 2024 CEN_com 0

INCLUDES STRATEGIC INDUSTRIAL SECTORS SUCH AS ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND RENEWABLES “The two countries will participate in supercharged trade spanning electric vehicles to renewable energy.” Italy and China have signed a three-year action plan to implement past accords, to explore new forms of co-operation and to foster collaboration in sectors such as auto manufacturing. These moves are amid growing trade tensions between China and the European Union (EU) bureaucracy based in […]

Wuhan residents pioneer winning formula for rooftop solar

July 27, 2024 CEN_com 0

A rooftop solar project in China suggests community emissions-reduction work must benefit everybody to succeed. China’s housing regulations are such that the roof of an apartment block is communally owned by all residents. That means there must be unanimous agreement to install solar panels there, making this a far more complicated undertaking than doing the same atop a public, commercial or agricultural building. The Jianshe apartment complex in Wuhan’s Beihu subdistrict is […]

China-led bloc renews call for West to pay trillions in climate funds for poor nations

July 26, 2024 CEN_com 0

A bloc of developing countries has accused wealthy nations of a lack of transparency in their approach to climate financing while seeking to “dilute their legal obligations” to help poorer economies. A China-led bloc of four newly industrialised countries said rich countries needed to pay up “trillions of dollars” in climate finance, adding that developed countries were “backtracking” on their earlier pledges. “Historical emissions and the use of the world’s […]

China’s advanced satellites for climate, carbon monitoring now operational

July 26, 2024 CEN_com 0

China’s atmospheric environment monitoring satellite and terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite have been officially put into operation, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Thursday. Air pollution, greenhouse gases and forests among monitoring targets. During their in-orbit testing, these satellites demonstrated favorable application results across multiple areas, including ecological environment, forestry and grassland, geographic surveying, meteorology, agriculture and emergency disaster response, according to an official of the CNSA. The […]

BYD to construct a sodium-ion battery production base

July 25, 2024 CEN_com 0

China’s BYD announced it will collaborate with the Xuzhou Economic Development Zone located in Jiangsu, China, to construct a sodium-ion battery production base, and the parties will also jointly establish the world’s largest micro-car sodium battery system supplier. The project marks BYD’s significant entry into the sodium-ion battery market, leveraging the technology’s potential for applications in EV and energy storage solutions. On November 18, 2023, the two parties formally signed […]

China innovates: World’s first dual-tower solar thermal plant for better efficiency

July 25, 2024 CEN_com 0

A Chinese power company is pioneering world-first technology by combining two endothermic solar towers to achieve a significant efficiency boost. China Media Group (CMG) released a video on Tuesday showing the impressive project near Guazhou County in Gansu Province. The two towers are each 200 meters tall with nearly 30,000 mirrors installed on the ground. The mirrors form two vast, overlapping circles that focus sunlight onto each tower. Like a […]