Goldwind, a leading Chinese wind turbine maker, has acquired two 10 megawatt (mW) wind farms from Volkswind USA, Goldwind said Friday in Beijing.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday addressed the 5th World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi and reaffirmed China's stand on clean and renewable energy.
China will construct an offshore wind farm with an installed capacity of 300 megawatts (MW) in Leting County, north China's Hebei Province, making it the country's largest such project.
China will soon start construction on its second installment of wind power projects for the 2011-2015 period, Liu Tienan, minister of the National Energy Bureau (NEB), has said.
The petition from a coalition of US wind power companies seeking anti-dumping and countervailing investigations against China won't hurt the domestic industry, said Shi Pengfei, vice-president of the Chinese Wind Energy Association.
China's first hydropower station is still supplying voltage to nearby residents and attracting thousands of tourists, 100 years after being built in southwest China.
China is seeking to improve the percentage of natural gas in primary energy consumption, under a policy announced on Wednesday.
China is creating supportive measures to shore up its ailing photovoltaic industry, which has been rocked by recent US duties on Chinese exports over alleged dumping.
The construction of new nuclear power stations, which had been suspended since the Fukushima disaster in March 2011, will be resumed in China.
The Chinese government will support the connection of photovoltaic solar power producers to the national grid with favorable policies.
Shanghai on Thursday launched a pilot carbon emission rights trading scheme in a bid to encourage carbon emission reductions.
China, the biggest supplier of solar power panels, quadrupled a domestic installation goal for solar energy projects to 21 gigawatts by 2015.
The National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Friday that six energy-intensive industries accounted for 42.7 percent of the country's power consumption growth during the first five months of this year.
Hydropower generation has increased as water levels of the country's hydro lakes continue to rise, but sluggish thermal power supply means electricity shortages are set to continue through summer.
China is willing to strengthen cooperation with Russia and other energy-producing and energy-consuming countries to jointly safeguard the stability of world energy market and achieve mutual benefits and win-win results, President Hu Jintao said Friday.
The World Bank has approved a $150 million loan to China for improvements in energy efficiency in the eastern province of Shandong, the bank said in an emailed statement.
Should China go ahead with its plan to develop the hydropower sector? It definitely should, says an expert, while a professor of ecology and microbiology disagrees.
China Three Gorges Corp (CTGPC) in central China's Hubei province announced Friday that one of its subsidiaries had won a contract to build a hydropower project in Cameroon.
China will halt diesel exports to guarantee domestic supply of the fuel as electricity outages continue to put pressure on the country's power supplies.
The uranium subsidiary of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPG) said it is developing two large mines in China's Guangdong province and the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.