China to increase spending on Renewable energy

China is one of the worlds biggest polluters, but in an effort to reduce reliance on fossil fuels China is to spend UK£4 billion (US$6.32 billion). The Gansu region of China is often extremely windy and is now being used to provide energy via wind turbines, roughly up to 36 wind turbines are being installed each day across the country.

Wind farm in the Gansu region of China

This move to wind energy has given the Jiuquan region an area of the Gansu province 6GW of wind energy, which in comparison is the same as the whole of the UK. China hope to increase capacity by tripling this figure by 2015, and by 2020 the Country hope to supply 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources. Read more ...