Chinese Qinghai Province switches to "green" energy supply
By 2050, Qinghai Province in northwest China will cover your all its energy requirements through renewable energy sources. By the indicated time, the capacity of the province's green energy system should reach 400 million kW, and the generation of electricity - more than 800 billion kWh per year, Xinhua News Agency reported. By May of this year, the installed capacity of the power system of the province with a population of 5.8 million people was 23.4 million kW, with 82.8 percent of electricity produced by hydro, solar and wind stations. In June of this year, the "test drive" of the project was successfully conducted in Qinghai - for a week the province fully provided itself with the electricity produced from the energy of water, wind and sun. By 2020, Qinghai intends to expand the production of solar and wind energy to 35 million kW. In addition, it will also annually supply 110 billion kWh of clean electricity to the central and eastern regions of China. According to Chinese scientists, to achieve the set goals in Qinghai Province, it is necessary to solve the problem with the instability of green energy and develop an intelligent power system that will connect hydro, solar and wind stations, as well as industrial energy storage facilities. China, trying to reduce the large percentage of coal use in its energy sector (which is about 64% of total consumption), which is a big environmental problem not only for the country, but for the whole planet, plans to invest 360.7 billion US dollars in the renewable energy sector by year 2020. According to the International Energy Agency, over the past five years, 40% of all power plants on alternative energy sources, built in the world, have been introduced into the People’s Republic of China.
