China to Achieve 15% Clean Energy Usage by Adding Hydropower

China now boasts of being the world’s highest hydropower producer with an installed capacity that exceeds 200 million kilowatts. The electric power generated from hydropower meets nearly three fifths of its total energy production from clean energy sources.

Zhang Guobao, Director of National Energy Administration, explained the aim of the Chinese government to increase the hydropower energy production to 300 million kilowatts by the year 2015 and to continue with its mission to lessen the emissions from its total domestic production by 40% to 45% by the year 2020. He added, that the government is committed to its assurance given in the Copenhagen meeting last December that it will increase the clean energy use from its 7.8% to 15% by the year 2020. He concluded saying that his organization will take all the required steps to up keep the promise even though it is not a very simple objective to complete.

Zhang, also explained that while the government has plans to speed up its endeavor’s to construct more hydropower projects, it is also planning to make the approval process a little more sterner to protect the endangered environment and precious land resources and more particularly its population that gets displaced when they give their lands for hydropower production.