China wind power installed capacity "likely to rise 64 pct this year"

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China wind power installed capacity "likely to rise 64 pct this year"

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/10/content_11166023.htm

China wind power installed capacity "likely to rise 64 pct this year"

www.chinaview.cn 2009-04-10 21:41:49

BEIJING, April 10 -- Installed capacity in China's wind power sector will grow 64 percent this year to 20 million kilowatts, organizers of the 3rd China (Shanghai) International Wind Energy Exhibition and Symposium 2009 forecast Friday.

Installed capacity grew 105 percent last year.

Industry experts believe that by 2020, wind power could surpass nuclear as China's third-largest source of electricity, after thermal and hydro power.

Wind power comprised 1.5 percent of China's total installed capacity in 2008, when the country became the world's fourth-largest wind power market.

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Fri Apr-10-09 04:33 PM
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1. Not to rain on the "percent talk" parade, but it's easy to obtain 1000% of 5 cents,

more difficult to obtain 1000% of 5 million dollars.

As for the "peak power" talk - it's ridiculous.

A 20 Mega"watt" peak power plant operating at 25% of capacity utilization is the same as a 5 Megawatt power plant operating continuously. It follows that to match a small gas plant - just one - all the wind power in China would need to grow by a factor of 200, or in "percent talk," 20,000%.

As for the soothsaying, nobody can do anything but soothsaying when it comes to the so called "renewable energy" industry.

For years and years and years and years and years here we've had such soothsaying, but neither wind nor solar are

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