4 January 2010
China making moves into the US' renewable energy industry
The US and China have embarked on unprecedented co-operation in clean-energy technologies, writes Anne Feltus
Their collaboration – which follows October meetings between presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao – makes sense: both countries must meet the growing power demands of large populations, while reducing their greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, the highest on the planet. China already participates heavily in the alternative-energy industry, leading the world in the manufacture of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells and wind turbines, and it will probably become the largest wind power producer within a few years (PE 12/09 p7). In May, China's National Development and Reform Commission, urged the country's energy companies to expand their activities overseas. The US, with its favourable clean-energy p
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