China’s solar use to far exceed 2020 targets
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China is set to smash its target for a roll-out of solar power by 2020 more than fivefold and possibly even tenfold, a researcher with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the economic planning ministry, said this week.
Under the NDRC’s renewable energy plan set out in 2007, China would have 1,800 megawatts of installed solar capacity by 2020, Reuters has reported.
But Wang Zhongying, assistant director at the NDRC’s Energy Research Institute and head of its Renewable Energy Development Center, said the country was likely to far exceed that.
“The goal that we made originally is probably too low,” he said at a solar energy conference in Shanghai. “By 2020, we can reach 10,000 MW or more.”
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