Renewable Energy Development

The project will: (a) reduce China’s heavy reliance on coal and resulting local, regional and global environmental damage; and, (b) supply electricity to rural households and institutions that otherwise would not have access to modern energy. The Project will support: (a) installation of windfarms (190 MW at 5 sites); (b) supply of about 200,000 photovoltaic (PV) and PV/wind hybrid systems to households and institutions in remote areas of four Northwestern provinces; (c) technology innovation to reduce cost and improve performance of windfarm and solar PV technologies in China; and (d) strengthening of institutional capacity and market infrastructure for large-scale commercializa-tion of windfarms and solar PV. Project investments are expected to result in declines in technology costs and reductions of about 13 million tons of carbon emissions.