China is introducing a clean-energy quota system to enforce provincial targets and ease its idle-capacity problem.
The plan will require minimum levels of clean-energy electricity use, holding regional grids, power distributors and generators responsible, the National Energy Administration said in a statement on its website Nov. 13.
The move is among measures the world’s biggest clean-energy investor plans to take to tackle idle wind, solar and hydro-power capacity by 2020, according to the statement. NEA is also encouraging market-oriented trading for renewable power, expanding inter-regional sales of the electricity and pushing for it to replace coal power to provide heating. ...
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