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Renewable energy may account for 30% of energy supply

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-09-19 09:53

Renewable energy could contribute to 30 percent of China's total energy
supply by 2050, an energy expert estimated on Tuesday.

Chinese wind power stations may have the ability to generate 300 to 500
million kw of electricity in 2050 and another 200 million to 300 million
kw will be generated by solar energy, Shi Dinghuan, president of the
Chinese Renewable Energy Society, said at the Solar World Congress 2007
in Beijing.

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, said Shi.

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.

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