BusinessWeek’s Dexter Roberts examines the tangle of natural disasters, infrastructure failures, commercial pressures and political wrangling which undermines the electricity supply to parts of China. Companies are...
Read MoreFrom Chinadaily: Shanghai, the top metropolis in China and a key draw for tourists with its brilliant night skyline, said on Thursday that it would turn off all decorative street lamps during the seven-day Spring Festival to...
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: The snowstorms currently sweeping China have wreaked havoc with millions of people’s New Year travel plans and caused $3 billion worth of losses, including thousands of acres of winter...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China says it is facing serious power shortages as severe winter weather continues to cause unusually high demand for electricity. Thirteen regions have already started to ration power supplies, the official Xinhua news agency reported. It said coal reserves were down to emergency levels and stockpiles were only high enough to generate […]
Read MoreGaoming Jiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Botany, wrote an essay on China Dialogue outlining some potential ways for China to help mitigate the global warming crisis: The best way of stopping global warming is to gradually reduce the amount of coal and other non-renewable energy sources that we burn. […]
Read MoreFrom The Associated Press: China plans to build a 60 billion yuan (US$7.5 billion; ‚Ǩ6 billion) nuclear power plant in a central province, adding to a boom in its nuclear power industry, a news report said Thursday. The latest plant is planned for Yueyang, a city in Hunan province, but no construction date has been […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Intellectual property rights and power shortages are problems in both Shanghai and Beijing but the outlook for business in both cities remains overwhelmingly positive, says the “White Paper 2005 American Business in China” released September 1. The white paper, the seventh annual report of its kind, was jointly prepared by the […]
Read MoreFrom the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: …The real pinch point for China is energy. Energy use is increasing 10 percent per year, and electricity production is growing 15 percent annually. The country is adding a new 1,000-megawatt power plant every week. Still, 24 provinces experienced severe power shortages last year… China uses twice as much coal as […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via MSNBC.com: As the Chinese summer heats up, civil servants in the capital have been told to dress down to save on energy, state media said Friday. With many cities in China facing severe power shortages, the Beijing city government has given its staff the go ahead to dress casually for internal meetings […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: The chronic power shortages in many regions of China beginning in 2002 have made it crystal clear that one of the biggest obstacles hindering China’s “peaceful emergence” blueprint is energy. The issue is not only economically vital, but has diplomatic and military implications. But the cause of the shortages was not, […]
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