DocumentCode
1753785
Title
The Role of Wind Power in Mitigating Climate Change in China
Author
Yu, Xiao ; Fan, Qinglai ; Qu, Hang
Author_Institution
Sch. of Civil Eng., Ludong Univ., Yantai, China
fYear
2011
fDate
25-28 March 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
Climate change has become one of the most serious challenges our human being has to face, and this issue is extremely urgent in China due to the large population and fast industrialization. Renewable energy can provide a major solution to mitigate global warming, and wind power can occupy an important position in the future power matrix due to wind resource distribution, wind power industry development and support from the Chinese government. In this paper, the factors from the mentioned aspects were discussed in details, and influence of wind resource to the plant locating was given. Also trends in the wind power industry were introduced.
Keywords
climate mitigation; global warming; wind power; China; Chinese government; climate change; global warming; plant locating; power matrix; renewable energy; wind power industry development; wind resource distribution; Government; Industries; Renewable energy resources; Wind; Wind power generation; Wind turbines;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 2011 Asia-Pacific
Conference_Location
Wuhan
ISSN
2157-4839
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-6253-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/APPEEC.2011.5748669
Filename
5748669
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