Energy
China is now speeding up the pace of city-building.
China is now speeding up the pace of city-building.
Two Chinese societies are going to construct the biggest solar farm of the world, proof that China lançe serieusement himself in the new energies.
Since midnight last night, the price of gas lowered consequent manner in China: the price of the 93 liter of Terrific thus lowered 0.9 yuan (5.10 yuan to the pump today), the liter of Terrific 90 of 0.85 yuan (4.80 yuan) and one of the Terrific 97 of 1 yuan (5.35 yuan).
The first operational Chinese solar power station has been joined Friday to the network of general distribution of electricity.
China starts a new cycle " energizing" while getting involved in the construction of 3eme generation nuclear plants. For it, she/it puts in competition the world leaders of the sector, the French Areva and the group nippo-American Westinghouse, of which it wants to get ardently and to master the technologies.
Under front of world ecological crisis, the countries speed up for research and the development of alternative energies. China could become in the next years one of the world leaders of the solar energy. However, in a first time, the country must acquire the technology and the know-how of the western businesses again.
Through accurate date and full elaboration, it describes the structure of China's gas industry and competition situation in the industry from various angles. Meanwhile, it presents assessment of major enterprises's business strategy and competitiveness.
In terms of nuclear power generation, China will advance from the moderate development strategy to accelerating development strategy. Nuclear power will play an even more important role in China's future power development. Especially in the developed coastal areas with heavy power load, nuclear power will become the backbone of the power structure there.
In 2005, China totally generated 2474.7 billion kWh with a year-on-year growth rate of 12.8%, which is lower than 14.8% in 2003 and 13.6% in 2004 yet still increase by quite a large margin. In the aspect of power consumption, the year 2005 still saw fast growth but somewhat slowed down. The whole society of China consumed 2468.9 billion kWh of electric power in 2005 with a year-on-year increase of 13.5%, declining 1.4% compared to growth rate in 2004.