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China sees geothermal potential predominantly for heating purposes

China sees geothermal potential predominantly for heating purposes Forbidden City, Beijing, China (source: flickr/ David Stanley, creative commons)
Francisco Rojas 9 Jan 2015

Renewable Energy World has recently posted an insightful and quite interesting article on the positive outlook that geothermal development has in China.

The Asian Giant has recently held the first China Geothermal Forum and “according to data released by the forum, the country is expected to develop a heating and cooling area powered by the geothermal energy of up to 500 million square meters and increase installation capacity based on geothermal power generation to 100,000 kilowatts by 2015.”

This comes following the commitment by the Chinese government alongside with the US to curb greenhouse emissions as soon as possible. In the same article, it is said that “the country aims to achieve an annual utilization volume of geothermal resources of up to 50 million tons of standard coal equivalent by 2020 and 100 million tons by 2030. Energy experts attending the forum said that the country has the potential to significantly develop the geothermal resources to a point where it would have a realistic bearing on the energy structure”

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Source: Renewable Energy World