Thursday, May 17, 2012

China's power grid is expensive, advanced but not 'smart,' report says

Lisa Friedman: China will fail to meet its carbon and energy intensity targets unless it makes dramatic changes to its electricity grid, a groundbreaking new report finds. The study, two years in the making, finds that China's grid is its "Achilles' heel," said lead author and Energy Transition Research Institute Research Director William Chandler. While newer and in many ways more technologically advanced than the U.S. grid, China's system is nevertheless being built to perpetuate the use of coal and large...

URL: http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2012/05/16/1

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