Renewable energy could contribute to 30 percent of Chinas total energy supply by 2050, an energy expert has estimated.
New Delhi, Sept. 19 : Renewable energy could contribute to 30 percent of China's total energy supply by 2050, an energy expert has estimated.
Shi Dinghuan, the president of the Chinese Renewable Energy Society, told the Solar World Congress 2007 in Beijing that Chinese wind power stations may have the ability to generate 300 to 500 million kilowatts of electricity in 2050 and generate another 200 million to 300 million kilowatts through solar energy.
On the other hand, small hydropower stations could generate 100 million kilowatts of electric power by 2030, which would account for 10 percent of overall energy supply at that time, Xinhua quoted Shi, as saying.
Shi said China had to pay more attention to developing renewable energy in order to ease the conflict between economic development and environmental protection.
It is the first time the International Solar Energy Society's Solar World Congress has been held in China since it was initiated more than two decades ago.
ANI