Renewable Energy Development Targets

Country	China
Year Implemented	2006
Policy Status	Ended
Date Announced	2006
Date Effective	2006
Policy Type	•Policy Processes   •Strategic Planning
Policy Sector	•Framework Policy
Description	The Chinese government's has established a number of short- and medium-term targets for renewable energy designed to increase the share of renewable energy in China's energy portfolio. These targets are included in the eleventh five-year plan and the 2007 National Climate Change Programme, among other policy documents. The targets include: - to build 30 large-scale wind farms each with of more than 100Mw by 2010; - the achieve on-grid wind capacity of 10 GW by 2010; - to achieve biomass and waste fueled generation of more than 5.5 GW by 2010; - to increase the share of energy from renewable sources in the total primary energy consumption to 15% by 2020, up from 7.5% in 2005; - to increase on-grid wind turbine capacity to 20 GW by 2015 and 30 GW by 2020; - to provide for solar heating to the amoutn of 30 million square metres by 2020; and - to provide for 24 million cubic metres of biogas utilisation by 2020.
URL	www.gov.cn/english/special/115y_index.htm