Huai’an City’s Power Plans
February 16, 2011 No CommentsHuai’an city in the Jiangsu province has announced a new plan to cope with its ever increasing demand for energy.
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Dynasty of Power?
January 24, 2011 No Comments?Those numbers are adding up to make China the largest energy consumer in the world and revealing its buildings to be amongst the least energy efficient of any modern society.
Energy Consumption, Investment Analysis, UncategorizedEnergy Efficiency with Chinese Characteristics
December 29, 2010 No CommentsAll over China lights are dimmed, heating systems turned off and factories idled so the central government can show the world it is capable of substantially increasing its energy efficiency.
Energy ConsumptionBuilding for Sustainability
November 26, 2010 No CommentsWith China’s push toward generating sources of clean energy, little has been said and done about changing the way it constructs its buildings.
Energy Consumption, Investment Analysis, UncategorizedLooking at Energy as It’s Really Used in China
November 5, 2010 No CommentsThe approach has been used to analyze the lifecycle of a product: its environmental impact, including the energy and emissions associated with its manufacture, transport, use, and ultimate disposal.
Energy Consumption, Investment Analysis, UncategorizedGDP: Great Disappearing Power
September 13, 2010 No CommentsNonetheless, the command-and-control approach to energy efficiency clearly misses the spirit of setting such targets and meeting them.
Energy Consumption, Investment Analysis, UncategorizedChina Energy Statistics Comb-Over
August 18, 2010 No CommentsChina is working hard to comb over the fact that it is as addicted as the USA to energy and is only becoming more so.
Energy Consumption, Investment Analysis, UncategorizedChina (Kind of) Wakes Up Early to Save Energy
July 20, 2010 No CommentsChina, it seems, is already halfway there to an early wake-up without even realising it: China exists as one time zone.
Energy ConsumptionUN Stops CDM Credits to China Wind Industry
December 8, 2009 No CommentsIt’s tough to lend a helping hand when you’re not sure what’s happened to your hand afterward. It’s just recently been revealed that the United Nations board that approves issuance of credits for carbon trading to developing countries has since the summer stopped providing credits to Chinese manufacturers in the wind power generation industry. Apparently, ...
Energy ConsumptionAiring My Laundry in China
November 25, 2009 No CommentsMatthew Engel recently wrote a piece in the Financial Times I found quite funny in light of the way we in China live compared with the expectations for quality of life in the United States. It seems a woman in a small town in Pennsylvania has been told twice by city fathers her neighbors are ...
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