There’s a shocking story by Nasdaq that claims that half of China’s wind power is lost because of their poor power grid. And since China is the world leader in wind power, that amounts to a lot of (wasted) hot air!
In the first half of 2010, China wasted 2.8 billion kilowatt-hours of solar energy. The country has in place the capacity to make 41.83 gigawatts. China has put in place an unprecedented amount of wind power generation infrastructure in order to meet a goal of 15% non-fossil fuel power generation by 2020.However, a large number of its wind power turbines are located in western China, in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions and Gansu province. Much of its power is used 4,000 kilometers away, though. This great distance between the site of power generation and its use accounts for all the lost power.
Another shortcoming of wind power in China and elsewhere is that wind is an inherently unpredictable (and therefore unreliable) source of energy. This has caused the demand for fossil fuel power generation to rise, defeating the purpose of wind power.
China is doing a great amount of work in renewable energy, but it has a long way to go.
China is doing a great amount of work in renewable energy, but it has a long way to go.
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