Article: China to keep reasonable control over energy consumption in 2011-2015

Source: http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4793021

1) Successful energy savings
China has basically accomplished the goal of reducing energy consumption per GDP unit by 20 percent by the end of the 11th Five -Year Program period (2006-2010). In the past five years, China has shut down small thermal power generation capacity and built 600,000 kilowatts of supercritical units and 1 million kilowatts of ultra supercritical units, which ac cumulatively saved over 300 million tonnes of raw coal.


Ref: http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/Coal/8385675


2) Efforts to develop non-fossil energy
Electricity generated by hydraulic power, wind power and nu clear power amounted to 3 trillion kilowatt hours in the 2006-2010 per iod, saving 1.5 billion tonnes of raw coal and reducing emission of ca rbon dioxide by nearly 3 billion tonnes.


Ref:http://www.sify.com/news/china-unveils-2015-energy-and-power-expansion-plans-news-others-lbgtaodecgj.html