Renewable Energy Rural Areas Of China

Most of the energy that we use comes from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal that provide electricity and gas to power our growing energy needs. These fossil fuels, currently providing most of our home energy needs are finite resources, which mean that, they will eventually run out. Furthermore, the world’s population is growing rapidly. Countries are becoming more industrialised and are using notable amount of energy. Individuals are consuming nearly twice as much as energy as they were using 30 years ago. In Australia itself, the total amount of energy consumed by households has increased over the past two decades and is forecast to increase. This could be due to the dependence of our standard of living on easily available energy. Between

Society’s reliance on the burning of fossil fuels for energy threatens to harm the environment. Transitioning from a fossil fuel energy economy to a solar-based one will not harm the Earth. Rather than pursuing a harmful energy policy in which big corporations continue to overload the ecosystem with fossil fuels, society could be using local renewable energy sources. The fossil fuel companies who have grown rich extracting raw materials from the ground want to interfere and co-opt with the expansion of renewable energy. People need to start a solar revolution focusing on clean energy built from the grassroots up. It is necessary to begin transitioning to renewable sources and start adopting solar and wind power.

In recent years, China has surpassed the United States for wind energy production. Due to this, many believe that at this rate, it seems that they will dominate and revolutionize the future of the wind energy industry. In the past couple of years, the United States has been the leader in wind energy production. However, in 2011, China surpassed the United States, and is expected to dominate wind energy in the future due to its many positive aspects and various benefits. Although many people support the idea of wind energy in China, they often question to which category this form of energy belongs to, and what it actually is. Wind falls under the category of green energy, which is usually defined as energy that can be produced in a way that protects the natural environment. Wind energy has many reasons that makes it an ideal source of energy because they are clean, efficient, and endless forms of energy. However, some are against this form of energy because the turbines can be a threat to wildlife, and can disrupt neighboring communities. Even though people may think that wind power has a bad influence on communities and habitats, it is beneficial because it creates less pollution, produces a large amount of energy, and helps create various business and political opportunities.

Due to the escalation in prices of the conventional sources of energy such as fossil and nuclear fuels and their harmful effects on the environment, there is a strong motivation to develop and utilize an alternative energy resources such as solar, wind, hydro and geothermal sources... etc cite{Karki2001}- cite{Fialho2015}-cite{Zhou2007}. In 2014, renewable energy overall expanded significantly in terms

China, home to more than 1.35 billion inhabitants, is the most populated country and largest developing nation in the world. China’s economy is thriving and continues to grow at a rapid pace, but that economic development comes with high costs as China is now biggest polluter in the entire world (“China Biodiversity Threat”). Additionally, China’s rapid industrial growth has increased greenhouse emissions, increased the need of foreign resources and produced environmental destruction. China has doubled the amount of coal-fired power stations being built from one a week to

Renewables provide several benefits for people in poverty. For one, new jobs would be created inside the countries installing and maintaining the systems. Renewables such as solar panels could be easily implemented in rural areas without the need to invest in expensive transmission lines. Essentially, renewables could easily bring electricity to impoverished people in a very short amount of

Energy is vital for not only economic development but also health. In the developing countries, governments should make efforts on decreasing energy poverty that have negative impacts on economic improvement and public health. The number of people who currently uses modern energy should rise as the developing world governments take actions to reduce social costs and to increase social benefits by gradually spreading modern energy to their people in rural

Taking into consideration China’s robust economic growth over the last 20–25 years, there is little reservation that China’s has had positive impacts on the economy. Because of the increase of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), China has saved over 400 million people from definite poverty between the years 1979 to 2005 (The State Environmental Protection Administration, 2007). Despite this economic growth in urbanization and industrialization, there have arisen major concerns about the impact this economic growth and the over population has place on the environment. Over population in China have place large demands on sustainability such as water and air pollution, land degradation, and natural resources. In this

China is a place known for it’s innovations and a knowledgeable powerhouse being at the forefront of technology for decades. It is also known for is frequent issues with pollution and not only in designated cities, the pollution problem is wide spread. China is in fact the largest consumer of coal in the world. This is because China uses coal as its main source of energy and delivers 70 percent of that energy for all of the nation’s needs. The problem with this strong reliance on coal for energy needs is that it emits the most carbon dioxide per electricity than any other energy source produced today, and it turns out that China has upped their usage by 17% in the last couple of years according to TIME Magazine (Worland).

In addition to the Renewable Energy Law, subsequent implementation measures created specific rules that provided economic incentives for the wind industry in China. Feed-in-tariffs (FIT) were introduced that compensated wind power producers with a financial incentive based on the quantity of energy produced. These FITs were divided into four groups in accordance with the abundance of wind available in their region. Per cite{IEEEhowto:Carbon_Trust_China}, this was set at: CNY0.51/kWh (Group I), CNY0.54/kWh (Group II), CNY0.58/kWh (Group III) and CNY0.61/kWh (Group IV). The four regions are shown in Figure

China as the fastest growing economy worldwide, is currently facing a challenging time to meet the energy demand of their population (Dalpino, 2005, p. 46). The heavily populated Eastern region is often subject to electricity outages (Sternfeld, 2010, p. 4), as the used electricity is mainly generated in the less densely populated West, a project supported by the west-east electricity transfer project (Oaks, 2004, p. 154). In the past, China has been mainly relying on their coal resources in order to meet this demand. The domination of coal consumption rose from the need of energy in a large country with a relatively low qualitative supply of natural gas and oil and the rather late development of these sources (Kang Z. , 2014).

The rural population utilizes energy mainly for the purpose of cooking, heating and for the electricity (K.C. et al. 2011). The rural population’s high dependency on energy sources such as forest wood, crop residues and dried animal dung; mainly for the purpose of cooking and heating seem to be inefficient, as well as has also resulted in respiratory health problems among the rural population due to high level of indoor air pollutants, particularly women and children. In addition, rural people spend too much time collecting the firewood, at quiet a distance from their homes in order to meet their household needs (K.C. et al. 2011). In rural areas, the energy supply requires time and

Renewable energy is well known as a primary solution to human being’s future. It was calculated that the total amount of energy

With the rapid economic development, China has surpassed US and become the world’s largest economy. In the same time, China also become the largest emitter of Carbon Dioxide (Co2) which is the most important reason for world’s climate change. During the development of economy, China used Coal too much and Coal would be converted to Co2. However, Coal is one of a fossil Fuel which means it is non-renewable. For the future development and environmental concerns, China has the sufficient reason to find another resource instead of Coal. Indeed, China is trying to extend application of renewable energy such as wind power, hydropower and solar energy. Especially, solar energy developed very well last decade in China and China become the leading manufacturer of PV (Photovoltaic— solar energy). According to article China’s Solar Photovoltaic Industry Development: The Status Quo, Problems and Approaches, “solar PV energy supply is destined to become one of the main global energy supply carriers by 2030 and a leading energy source by 2050. EU and USA plan to expand the gross installed capacity of the PV industry to over 1500 million KW by 2050. China aims to create a PV industry with a gross installed capacity of 1050 GW by 2030.” (Hongzhang P222) Based on information above, it is easy to notice China’s potential in PV industry and PV market will create value for China’s economy.

Renewable energy policy will have varying effects on different industries across agriculture, some more or less and to different degrees within industries. In order to identify these influences, the actual policy must be identified and then the industries involved must be defined. The current relevant policy directive under the U. S. Department of Agriculture, itself an agency under the Executive Branch i.e. White House, is the 2009 Americal Clean Energy Leadership Act, or ACELA. A stream of other proposals flows into Congress ongoing which would presumably have similar economic effects on agriculture. Different sectors within agriculture are defined under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) class 11, which provides a convenient and authoritative framework for comparing industries (U.S. Census, 2002). Changes to national renewable energy policy will have different effects in different industries, but also different effects within industry classes based on geographic location and firm size, so this analysis will consider effects between groups and also within specific NAICS classes. While this discussion considers logging and husbandry as included under NAICS 11, the results would be the same in theory were the scope limited to farming only.