China will increase its offshore wind power installed capacity to 5 gigawatts (GW) by 2015 and 30GW by 2020, the National Energy Administration said Wednesday.
China is still facing the challenge of power shortages as summer approaches, despite the central government's efforts to control coal prices and ensure electricity generation, an industry insider said.
China will push for the use of clean power and energy-saving technologies in its massive urbanization drive across the country over the next five years, a senior energy official said Tuesday.
The China Three Gorges Corporation says four planned hydroelectric power stations being built on the Jinsha River will be capable of producing twice as much power as the Three Gorges Dam, which is currently the world's largest-capacity hydroelectric power plant.
Despite China and Russia's failure last week to finalize a deal on pipeline gas supplies, officials and experts on both sides remain optimistic.
The country's leading wind turbine makers are vying with each other to push forward big-capacity wind turbines in a bid to win a slice of China's offshore wind power development.
Shopping malls and office buildings in Shanghai are being urged to close on extremely hot days this summer to save power for residents' use in the midst of a shortage of supply, according to a recent notice issued by the Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Company.
A new hydropower station became operational Friday in southwest Tibet Autonomous Region, as a first step to build a clean energy base in the plateau region.
China's Supreme People's Court (SPP) has issued a set of judicial explanations specifying compensation responsibilities in cases of vessels' oil spill.
President Hu Jintao met Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday, seeking an agreement in a price dispute over Russian gas supplies.
China's electric power consumption in May rose 10.8 percent year on year to reach 386.5 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh).
Four new community solar plants with panels manufactured in China have gone into service to cope with summer peak demand, major US electricity supplier Southern California Edison (SCE) announced Monday.
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