China Takes Global Lead In Clean Energy: Report
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published January 07, 2017 | 09:15 AM
PARIS, Jan 7 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 07th Jan, 2017 ) - China's overseas investment in renewable energy projects jumped last year by 60 percent to a record $32 billion (30 billion Euros), marking its leadership in the global market for clean energy, a report said Friday.
In 2016, China finalised 11 foreign deals worth more than a billion Dollars each, and is expected to pick up the pace this year, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).
On Thursday, China announced that it would sink at least $361 billion into renewables by 2020, key to the country's transition away from polluting coal power. "Renewable energy will be the pillar for China's energy structure transition," said Li Yangzhe, deputy head of the National Energy Administration, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Overseas investments last year ranged from lithium battery makers in Australia and Chile to an electricity distribution deal in Brazil and the building of a solar cell factory in Vietnam.
China now owns five of the six largest solar module manufacturing firms in the world, according to the report.
On the domestic front, the world's second largest economy had already emerged as a renewables powerhouse, outstripping the United States. China poured more than $100 billion in domestic renewable energy -- wind, solar, hydro -- and related sectors in 2015, more than double the US investment, according Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
"The US is already slipping well behind China in the race to secure a larger share of the booming clean energy market," said IEEFA director Tim Buckley. "With the incoming (US) administration talking up coal and gas, prospective domestic policy changes don't bode well," he said in a statement.
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