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                • Policy

                • People's Republic of China

                • 2016

                Technical Guideline for Environmental Risk Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Storage (Trial)

                The 2016 “Technical Guideline for Environmental Risk Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Storage (Trial)” was issued and formulated by the Department of Science, Technology and Standards of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China. The Guideline could serve as technological reference for CCUS environmental risk assessment. It can also serve to guide for environmental risk assessment of newly built or expanded carbon dioxide capture, geological utilization and geological storage projects on land.

                • Policy

                • People's Republic of China

                • 2019

                Financial Subsidy Policy for the Promotion and Application of New Energy Vehicles

                This notice lays out the five areas of improvement to strengthen financial subsidy policy to further promote and accelerate deployment of New Energy Vehicles (NEV) in China. The objective is to further adjust the policy framework to the development of the NEV market and create enabling conditions for further scale up of the NEV market. The five priority areas for improvement comprise of:
                 


                Optimising technical indicators
                Improving subsidy standards
                Improving the liquidity and efficiency of funds
                Creating a fair environment and enable demand
                Strengthening quality supervision to ensure vehicle safety


                 
                The notice is accompanied by a list of technical requirements…

                • Policy

                • People's Republic of China

                • 2009

                Golden Sun Programme

                The 2009 Golden Sun programme provides subsidies to grid connected and off-grid solar PV power generation projects and calls for 500 MW of installed PV capacity by 2012 China-wide.
                Subsidy schemes have been designed both at the national and provincial levels and apply to 2011. At the national level, developers of off-grid PV systems are eligible for a subsidy covering 70% of the installation cost.
                Grid-connected projects of a 300 kW minimum peak capacity are eligible for a subsidy covering 50% of the cost of installation, transmission and distribution of generated electricity.
                The subsidy is applicable…

                • Policy

                • People's Republic of China

                • 2012

                Approval on the establishment of non-food biomass feedstock Standardization Technical Committee

                It was agreed to establish Non-food Biomass Feedstock Standardization Technical Committee. Committee’s secretariat will be based at the China Agricultural University and it consists out of 29 members. Committee is mainly responsible for China's non-food biomass feedstock terminology and test methods for products, production techniques, storage and transportation technology, supply of raw materials and non-food biomass, ecological environment-related standardization work.

                • Policy

                • People's Republic of China

                • 2012

                Solar Industry 12th Five Year Development Planning

                …per KWh by 2015 and CNY 0.6 per KWh by 2020 and increase production of solar panels.
                The plan requires China's leading polysilicon manufacturers to reach annual production capacity of 50,000 tons by 2015. Solar panel makers will have to reach 5GW annual production capacity by the same year.
                China will put more effort into the production technology for BIPV in the coming years. According to the plan, China aims to increase the conversion efficiency of monocrystalline silicon solar cells to 21%, polysilicon cells to 19%and amorphous silicon cells to 12% by 2015
                Above was established…

                • Policy

                • People's Republic of China

                • 2013

                Code of practice of the PV manufacturing

                In order to lead to the accelerating improvement in the PV manufacturing industry, make sure the PV industry in China grow constantly, this regulation is made according to the principle of improve structure, quantity control, innovation first, application first. The establishment of the production, distribution and project photovoltaic manufacturing industry production scale and technology and comprehensive utilization of resources, etc. to make the provisions.

                • Policy

                • People's Republic of China

                • 2014

                National certification and Implementation Supervision Commission, Energy Bureau on strengthening the photovoltaic products testing and certification work

                In order to enhance the construction of the PV products' testing and certification system and regulate the industry's management, the Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People’s Republic of China and the National energy administration of the people's republic of China have issued specific implement comments for the testing and certification services of PV product. The range of the PV product that enter testing and certification service, the certification process and the qualification of the certification agency have been detailed regulated.

                • Policy

                • People's Republic of China

                • 2012

                The Notice on the Establishment of Demonstration Areas for Large-Scale distributed solar PV Power Generation

                The Notice mandates provinces to establish demonstration areas for large-scale distributed solar photovoltaic installations in order to further upscale solar generation and utilization in China.
                Provinces are obliged to select urban area and create large-scale deployment of solar technologies programme for their territory. The generation capacity of solar installation should fully meet power demand of the selected area. Smart-grid technologies should be encouraged.
                The Notice implements standards for subsidy creation for self-generation systems and for net metering mechanism.
                Grid companies will be responsible for metering calculation and subsidiary payments.
                Each province can establish maximum of three…

                • Policy

                • People's Republic of China

                • 2013

                The Notice on Integrating and Accommodating Wind Power 2013

                The Notice pointed out that wind curtailment and power regulation has been very serious in some regions in 2012 with rapid development of installed capacity of wind power in China. The abandoned electricity generated by wind power was up to 20TWh throughout the country, so further improvement wind accommodation and utilization rate, analysis of the reason of curtailment and get rid of the barriers. Carry out wind resources abundant area research and maintain wind installed capacity stable growth and grid infrastructure construction.

                • Policy

                • Australia

                • 2004

                Australia - Methane to Markets Partnership

                Australia joined the Partnership at its launch in November 2004, seeking to collaborate on the recovery and use of coal mine methane with China.The M2M Partnership is a voluntary, non-binding framework for international cooperation to advance cost-effective, near-term methane recovery and use as a clean energy source. The M2M Partnership was launched at the Ministerial Meeting in Washington, D.C. in November 2004. The Partnership now includes 26 member countries as Partners. It encourages the development and implementation of projects that can result in direct methane emissions reductions

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