8 Renewable energy Plan in China

RENEWABLE ENERGY TRACKS OF CHINA VS FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS Cigdem Yorgancioglu 03 Jan 2019

China’s energy profile provides a window into its economic soul. It tells us much about what China does, how fast it is doing it, and the efficiency of the process. Since energy is also a global commodity, whose demand and supply affects the running of nations, firms and households, and the environment, it becomes necessary to gauge the effect of China’s huge population and unprecedented economic growth on the world’s energy base.

Proceeding of the 2017 Annual Conference of the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology (SEET), 2017

Currently, energy problems are faced all over the world, majorly African countries. One of the solutions in the challenging energy situation is utilization of renewable energy. Even countries that are rich with fossil fuels have identified the necessity of developing alternative sources of energy. Nigeria is endowed with abundant natural renewable energy resources like the solar, wind, hydro, biomass (waste) etc. Renewable energy will be a pragmatic alternative to supplementing electricity supply in Nigeria. It can be cost-effective in areas far-flung from the national grid, and will impact Nigeria's electricity bottom line. However, the economy has mainly relied on the consumption of oil and gas for commercial energy. There is therefore a growing global concern about the future of non-renewable biomass in form of fossil fuel and its attendant consequences on the environment as evident in global warming. Moreover, there is an ever growing demand for energy. Biogas, a form of renewable energy can provide a clean, easily controlled source of renewable energy from organic waste materials for a small labour input, replacing firewood or fossil fuels which are becoming more expensive as supply falls behind demand. Thus, this paper centres on the past and present status of energy in Nigeria and Africa at large and potential of renewable energy from organic wastes citing several case studies.

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Analyses show that in the EU the share of the renewable electricity could be around 35 percent in 2020. In this paper we focus on Croatia and Slovenia, the former becoming the 28th member state of the EU on July 1, 2013 and the latter being EU member state since 2004. The aim of our paper is to analyse how Croatia and Slovenia use different renewable sources in their electricity generation and to evaluate the extent at which both countries are achieving and/or will be able to achieve their 2020 targets in this field. In the recent years Croatia has made great movements in the use of wind power, which currently has the largest share of electricity generation from RES. Biomass and hydropower energy are used in equal proportion whereat biomass has great potential to become the most important RES by 2020. Further expansion of existing generating capacity, particularly a large using of solar energy, it is expected that Croatia could achieve the set target for 2020. We establish that favourable natural conditions and efficient energy policy measures allowed Slovenia to make notable progress in the usage of solar power, biomass and biogass in electricity generation, while large unused potentials remain for the usage of wind power and some for hydro power on the Sava river. We argue that these available RES potentials make Slovenia able to reach and perhaps even surpass the 2020 target.

Energy is a basic human need and without it, everything would come to a standstill. It is a necessary factor in fostering human development and economic growth in a secure, affordable, reliable, clean, and sustainable energy supply. Presently, we face monumental challenges: global warming, the waning of natural resources, explosions in population growth, increasing energy demand, rising energy prices, and unequal distribution of energy sources. These factors contribute to the urgent need to transform the energy sector -which primarily relies on fossil fuels to alternative energy sources (i.e.-to one that uses renewable energies and energy efficient measures).

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015

The use of renewable energy is projected to increase substantially in the European Union to reach a share of 20% in final energy consumption and 10% renewable energy in transport by 2020. The renewable energy contribution is further expected to increase to 55%-75% of gross final energy consumption in 2050. According to the latest reports, the European Union has made significant progress since 2005 and is on track to reach its 2020 renewable energy targets. This paper provides a review of the policy framework for renewable energy in the European Union and an analysis of the progress made by the use of renewable energy as well as the expected developments until 2020 and beyond. It focusses on the contribution of bioenergy, the major source among renewables in the European Union. As biomass availability is a critical issue for the bioenergy production, this paper provides an analysis of the biomass demand for reaching the 2020 targets, in relation with the expected domestic supply and biomass potential.

Bangladesh has seen annual growth rates of around 6% for the last decade the recent international downturn has not had significant negative effects. On the contrary, an increased focus on Bangladesh as the most cost efficient production hub in Asia has been seen. Further economic growth is, however, seriously threatened by unfulfilled and growing energy needs 3.800 MW of electricity is produced. Demand is estimated at 5.500 MW and growing at ~500 MW a year 1.800 MMCFD of gas is produced. Demand is 2.300 MMCFD Government is set to undertake emergency plans to add more generation capacity each year until 2014. Focus will be on setting up new power plants, promote sustainable energy activities and increase energy efficiency large number of tenders will be floated in the coming months leaving ample business opportunities for Danish investors and technology providers within the energy sector.