Just as the US President - elect fill his cabinetwith a heap of clime modification denier , China is taking an opposite approach . The Taiwanese government energy agency has just announce its plan to spend more than$360 billionover five old age investing in renewable energy sources . Laying out their initial program , they desire to boost employment in the sector to 13 million job by 2020 in an effort to lurch aside from dirty coal - power stations to clean vim sources .
The plan to spend such vast amounts on renewables comes as China emerges as the drawing card in neat energy worldwide . Last year , as green energy made up more than one-half of net electricity generation capacity sum to the grid globally , China already come in at the top of the tilt . They now report for 40 percent of the expected increment over the next five years .
While the nation ’s repute may be one of foul coal , helped in large contribution by the smogginess that often wrap its urban centers , this is begin to agitate . The nation ’s air pollution issue is no doubt adding to that drive to ablactate itself off coal . In fact , the amount the country has been burninghas been in declineover the last three age , a marked difference from 2013 in which it had increased by 3.7 percent .
Clearly , they have already been invest heavy in renewables , primarily in the manakin of solar . Over a period of just two old age , China double its solar installations , and this rate is expected to skyrocket . One of the world ’s orotund solar farmsis already being constructedin the Ningxia region , and when completed will insure an amazing 4,607 hectares ( 11,400 acre ) . It will have roughly 6 million panel in aggregate , creating a mental ability of a banging 2 gigawatts , more than all the solar in Thailand .
This comes as the price of build such turgid - scale solar plants has dropped byas much as 40 per centum . But it ’s not only solar that China will be investing in . They have also boom their wind might over the last few years , with over $ 100 billion of the announced investment going into this sector . China will also be putting money into hydropower , tidal , and geothermal .
Despite the clear telling move being made by China , over the same period more than one-half of the nation ’s put in power capacity will be fuel by ember .
Either style , from a commonwealth that is frequently vilified for being one of the master sources of carbon emissions , and evenby someas the principal beginning of the clime alteration " myth " , they are doing more than their fair part to test and address an issue that will involve us all .
