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Title: China’s energy industrial revolution
Related: L'industria, Vol. 32, No. 2, (2011), p.309-328
DOI: 10.1430/34910
Publisher: Societa Editrice Il Mulino
Date: 2011
Author/Creator: Mathews, John A
Description: China's energy transformation, which underpins its breakneck economic growth, presents two contradictory facets. On the one hand there is the China that is building thermal power stations at an unprecedented rate, increasing its consumption of coal, and becoming the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide. On the other hand there is the China that is building renewable energy and zero-carbon industries at an unprecedented rate, taking or approaching world leadership in hydropower, wind power, solar pv and solar thermal, as well as in nuclear power and in «smart grid» modernization. This presents the world with a conundrum: which is the «real» China? In this paper, an overview is provided that sets China's strategies in an industrial dynamics setting, arguing that China will shift the balance of its energy systems towards renewables, and that this will be irreversible within the next 10 to 20 years.
Description: 20 page(s)
Subject Keyword: China
Subject Keyword: Renewable Energy
Subject Keyword: Logistic Industrial Dynamics
Subject Keyword: Strong and Smart Grid
Subject Keyword: 12th Five Year Plan
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Macquarie Graduate School of Management

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