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Technology report
Oct 2011
Technology Roadmap - China Wind Energy Development Roadmap 2050
…by the Energy Resource Institute of China’s National Reform and Development Commission (ERI-NDRC), the China Wind Energy Roadmap is the first national roadmap that has been developed by a country with IEA support, drawing from its global roadmap series. The report shows how the People's Republic of China, already the world’s largest wind market, could reach 1 000 gigawatts of wind power by the middle of the century, an achievement that would reduce CO2 emissions by 1.5 gigatonnes per year, or roughly equivalent to the combined CO2 emissions of Germany, France and Italy in 2009.
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Report
Feb 2011
Overseas Investments by Chinese National Oil Companies
Overseas Investments by Chinese National Oil Companies This report examines inaccuracies in some commonly held views of the People's Republic of China’s National Oil Companies (NOCs). Until now, there has been little analysis to test the widely held presumption that these companies act under the instructions and in close co-ordination with the Chinese government. Nor have critics been challenged on the validity of their concerns about investments made by these NOCs, and how they could be blocking supplies of oil for other importing countries. IEA analysis, however, finds that contrary to these views, the NOCs actually operate…