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美中绿能高峰论坛硅谷圆满举行

2016-07-15 22:14 来源: 金山在线 作者:张苗 字号:【大 中 小】 已有11人浏览

 

诺贝尔奖获得者、前美国能源部长朱棣文做《气候风险和清洁能源的机遇》主旨报告。

美中绿色能源促进会主席吴锡九。

中国驻旧金山总领事罗林泉(前排左7)、美中绿色能源促进会主席吴锡九(前排左6)、诺贝尔奖获得者、前美国能源部长朱棣文(前排左5)、中国科学院院士、中国电力科学研究院名誉院长周孝信(前排左4)、中国国务院参事、中国可再生能源学会理事长石定寰(前排右3)等人出席“2016美中绿色能源高峰论坛”。

侨报记者张苗7月15日南湾报道】7月15日,由美中绿色能源促进会携手清华大学、重庆大学、华北电力大学、协鑫新能源国际集团、中国电机工程学会等五家组织,联合主办的“2016美中绿色能源高峰论坛”在硅谷举行。论坛以“构建能源互联网以应对气候变化” 为主题,邀请到中美政府官员,以及美中两国在此三大行业——电力行业、可再生能源行业、信息技术行业暨互联网行业——的领军人物,针对目前中美两国在运用“能源互联网”上的现况和成果提出报告。借此给下一代绿色能源领域及互联网技术,特别是智能电网结合,提供进一步应对气候变化的解决方案。

美中绿色能源促进会主席吴锡九在开幕致辞中表示,经济的高速发展给中国的环境带来压力,中国政府也在积极采取措施,应对气候变化和能源危机;而美国在可再生能源创新方面走在世界前断。相信中美在绿色能源方面的合作,将推动中美友好关系进一步发展。

中国驻旧金山总领事罗林泉出席了论坛。他表示,中美是世界上最大的两个经济体,也是最大的能源消耗国,在减少石化能源使用、降低碳排放和环境保护方面肩负共同责任,面临共同挑战。当前,中国正以“创新、协调、绿色、开放、共享”理念为指导,深入实施创新驱动发展战略,大力推进“大众创业、万众创新”,打造中国经济发展新动力。“我们期待有更多硅谷的科技社团、企业家、投资家、科技人员,积极参与到中美科技交流中来,共同推动中美创新创业领域的交流合作,不断向前发展。”

当天的论坛上,诺贝尔奖获得者、前美国能源部长朱棣文在《气候风险和清洁能源的机遇》主旨报告中提出,为保障未来全球的持续繁荣、可持续性和安全的能源供应,大力发展太阳能、风能等清洁能源和可再生能源是必然选择。

中国科学院院士、中国电力科学研究院名誉院长周孝信在《中国能源革命中电力系统的发展趋势和技术要求》报告中,针对中国能源革命的目标和电力的发展前景,电力系统的发展趋势和技术需求,进行了详细的数据分析。他认为,2050年中国能源转型目标的实现,主要依靠可再生能源发电在电力系统中高比例发展。

中国国务院参事、中国可再生能源学会理事长石定寰,斯坦福大学高级研究员(PEEC和胡佛研究所)格伦娜(Dian Grueneich),清华大学能源互联网研究院院长曾嵘协鑫新能源国际集团首席执行长方朋等,也分别在会上作主旨报告。

据主办方介绍,美中绿色能源促进会是一个501© 3非牟利、非政府组织,于2008年在美国硅谷成立。它的宗旨和目标是通过促进美中两国人民、商业、政府、工业及学术组织之间的合作,来应对全球气候变化。

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美中绿能高峰论坛与会专家答记者问

2016-07-15 22:29 来源: 金山在线 作者:张苗 字号:【大 中 小】 已有9人浏览

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侨报记者张苗7月15日南湾报道】“2016美中绿色能源高峰论坛”硅谷召开期间,为向公众更加全面、客观地介绍当前的气候变化、能源转型等问题,增强各界对绿色能源发展和中美能源合作的正确认识,论坛主办方——美中绿色能源促进会安排与会专家答现场媒体记者问。

美中绿色能源促进会主席吴锡九(左5)、中国科学院院士、中国电力科学研究院名誉院长周孝信(右4)、中国国务院参事、中国可再生能源学会理事长石定寰(右3).

美中绿色能源促进会主席吴锡九在会上介绍了“2016美中绿色能源高峰论坛”的缘起,以及论坛的宗旨和已取得的成绩。他说,巴黎气候协议已经达成,气候变化、能源问题为世界各国所重视,发展绿色能源也成为各国共识。要具体落实巴黎协议,离不开能源消耗最大的中美两国的合作。举办这次论坛,目的就是为中美优秀能源专家搭建交流平台,促进两国间的技术合作,最终带动解决气候变化的任务。

吴锡九介绍,绿色能源的发展步骤为以下5个方面:通过发展再生能源、智能电网、绿色IT、智能交通,最后实现建设智能城市的目标。

于1956年追随钱学森回国的吴锡九,曾参与中国“12年科学规划”。他认为,当今的绿色能源发展计划,和当年的科学规划有着共同之处,因此他对2050年基本解决中美乃至全球空气污染和气候问题充满信心。

被问及中国能源革命过程中,电力系统发展技术上最迫切的需求时,中国科学院院士、中国电力科学研究院名誉院长周孝信表示,可再生能源发电存在间歇性和随机性问题,输出的不稳定性给电力系统造成很大障碍,所以当前最迫切的需求是发展储能、预测风能等先进技术。

中国国务院参事、中国可再生能源学会理事长石定寰介绍了在可再生能源发展领域,中美两国政府和民间两个层面开展的一系列合作。1979年中美签订了政府间的合作协议后,两国展开长期的科技合作。例如在清洁能源方面,朱棣文担任美国能源部长期间,两国成立了几个清洁能源合作中心。他强调,今后中美两国应在可再生清洁能源领域加强合作,尤其应充分利用民间合作的良好机制,搭建平台,促进双方的交流与合作。

 

 

 

 

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綠能論壇 談美中「天作之合」

記者林亞歆/聖他克拉拉報導

July 16, 2016, 6:00 am 22 

中美綠色能源高峰論壇邀請兩國政府、產業代表分享,盼推動綠能領域與技術。左起吳錫九、周孝信、石定寰。(記者林亞歆/攝影)

為應對全球暖化及氣候變遷,先進國家皆積極尋求能源轉型、推動綠能經濟。美國和中國是全球最大經濟體與能源消耗國,在永續能源的生產和投資方面皆全球名列前茅,也深深影響綠能產業的發展動向。

為促進兩國產業界和政界交流,美中綠色能源促進會攜手其他五個相關組織,聯合主辦「美中綠色能源高峰論壇」,15日於聖他克拉拉進行峰會。

峰會組織委員會主席張曉楓表示,論壇開辦至今已第九屆,「最初多是將美國專家請到中國。但今年許多中國專家、企業、協會都想藉交流機會與國際接軌。」她指出,今年論壇以「構建能源互聯網以應對氣候變化」為題,邀請兩國政府、產業代表分享「能源互聯網」發展現況和成果,讓美中雙方了解彼此需求,盼繼續推動下一代綠能領域及互聯網技術。

美中綠色能源促進會主席吳錫九強調:「解決能源問題一定要中、美合作,且兩國可說是天作之合。」他指出,中國對能源需求龐大,而美國有創新技術、產品,「尤其是引領美國智能電網、互聯網、電動車等技術發展的矽谷更有發展綠能潛力。」

中國可再生能源學會理事長石定寰認為,近年來中美兩地政府與民間的綠能產業合作十分積極,但指出,雙方合作領域以清潔煤、電動車等領域為主,「太陽能、風力等再生能源的合作較少,應加強投入。」

史丹福大學普雷科特能源效率中心(Precourt Ener­gy Effi­cien­cy Center)資深研究員格倫娜(Dian Grueneich)與中國綠能產業交流多年,曾在2008年於北京舉辦的首屆美中綠色能源高峰論壇中進行相關產業分析報告。她表示:「中國對創新接受度很高,且具有發展綠能的人才與需求。」如何在創新產業與過往市場、文化、法規等因素間平衡,將是中國未來發展綠能的最大挑戰。

中國科學院院士周孝信表示,中國綠能產業仍須克服儲能與預測能源來源的能力,將隨機度降低,提高使用效率。

 

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( 本報記者仇家奇聖他克拉報道)

曾嶸演講介紹能源互聯網。 記者仇家奇攝

吳錫九探討中美在能源領域的合作。 記者仇家奇攝

本次綠色能源高峰論壇嘉賓雲集。 記者仇家奇攝

 

由美中多家組織和公司聯合主辦的2016美中綠色能源高峰論壇,昨日在聖他克拉萬豪酒店舉行,以嘉賓演講和論壇形式,全面闡釋今年會議主題「構建能源互聯網以應對氣候變化」。很多嘉賓對中美雙方在新能源和環保領域的合作前景表示看好,認為未來兩國的合作可引領世界前行。峰會請來多位重量級嘉賓,駐舊金山總領事羅林泉、諾貝爾獎獲得者、前美國能源部長朱棣文,先後致辭。朱棣文更以「氣候風險和清潔能源的機遇」為題演講,鼓勵新能源研究者和企業人士。

在會後記者會上,美中綠色能源促進會會長吳錫九表示,在環保和新能源問題上,美中兩國要想有所建樹,必須得加強合作。兩國的合作是毋庸置疑的。

吳錫九說,2008年時,該組織籌劃了第一次峰會項目,預測了未來中國環境惡化的情況。隨後幾年,中國就出現了大規模的霧霾天氣,環境惡化比想像中更加嚴重,這點就說明當年對中國環境的預測並非危言聳聽。所以,能源結構的更改已經到了刻不容緩的地步。

 

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2016美中绿色能源高峰论坛在美国硅谷举行

2016年07月16日 17:16 中国新闻网

中新社圣塔克拉拉7月15日电 (记者 刘丹)中美两国政府官员,电力、可再生能源、信息技术和互联网行业领军人物15日在美国加州圣塔克拉拉市出席2016美中绿色能源高峰论坛,主办方认为,中国和美国强强合作应对气候变化和能源危机,将是增进两国关系的金钥匙。

由美中绿色能源促进会和中国电机工程学会等联合主办的本届论坛主题为“发展能源互联网以应对气候变化”,全球能源转型是会议的热议话题。

中国驻旧金山总领事罗林泉,美国国会众议员、民主党全国委员会副主席本田致开幕词。前美国能源部部长朱棣文、中国电力科学研究院名誉院长周孝信、中国可再生能源学会理事长石定寰、斯坦福大学高级研究员黛安·格伦娜等发表主题报告。两国业界代表围绕推广绿色能源满足全球电力需求,减少污染,冀将新一代互联网技术与能源领域特别是智能电网相结合,为应对气候变化提供解决方案深入探讨。

中国可再生能源学会理事长石定寰在中美合作展望的主题演讲中指出,中美两国多年前就在清洁能源领域开展合作,在朱棣文担任美国能源部长期间,两国还建立了多个清洁能源合作中心,多个机构参与。

石定寰说,“但我注意到清洁能源的合作中只有清洁煤、电动汽车、建筑节能等,并没有风能、太阳能和生物质能等可再生能源项目,我今天特别强调要加强两国在可再生能源的合作,包括可再生能源如何通过互联网进入能源系统里。”

石定寰认为,民间合作与官方合作相比更灵活,更广泛。利用民间已经合作得很好的机制,特别是加州硅谷这样的创新源地,已与北京中关村和中国的大学建立了很好的联系,要把这些民间资源组织起来,为他们搭建平台,更好交流。

中国电力科学研究院名誉院长周孝信表示,中国去年全国发电56000亿度,风能和太阳能只有4%,占很小的比例,还有很大成长空间。可再生能源发电最大的特点是波动性、间歇性和随机性,输出的不确定性给电力系统的运行带来不稳定性,储能(将不稳定的电储存起来稳定地输出)、预测分析风能都是中国发展可再生能源在技术上的迫切需求。

谈及中美在能源转型中的合作,清华大学能源互联网研究院院长曾嵘教授表示,美国有先进的新能源信息和材料技术,而中国的强项在于大电网建设及运行,直流技术和特高压输电技术。中美各有所长,有助于发展可再生能源。

美中绿色能源促进会主席吴锡九对中美合作前景表示乐观。“中美强强合作应对气候变化和能源危机,将是改善两国关系的金钥匙。”

促进会前身是加州大学伯克利分校华人协会,于2008年创会,目的为促进中美两国在应对全球气候变化、推广新能源、减少污染、解决能源危机等领域的合作。

促进会每年在中美两地轮流举办峰会,下一届将移师中国成都。(完)

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2016美中绿色能源高峰论坛在美国硅谷举行

发布时间:2016–07-18 10:45:34 丨 来源:中国新闻网 丨 作者:刘丹 丨 责任编辑:钱海利

中美两国政府官员,电力、可再生能源、信息技术和互联网行业领军人物15日在美国加州圣塔克拉拉市出席2016美中绿色能源高峰论坛,主办方认为,中国和美国强强合作应对气候变化和能源危机,将是增进两国关系的金钥匙。

由美中绿色能源促进会和中国电机工程学会等联合主办的本届论坛主题为“发展能源互联网以应对气候变化”,全球能源转型是会议的热议话题。

中国驻旧金山总领事罗林泉,美国国会众议员、民主党全国委员会副主席本田致开幕词。前美国能源部部长朱棣文、中国电力科学研究院名誉院长周孝信、中国可再生能源学会理事长石定寰、斯坦福大学高级研究员黛安·格伦娜等发表主题报告。两国业界代表围绕推广绿色能源满足全球电力需求,减少污染,冀将新一代互联网技术与能源领域特别是智能电网相结合,为应对气候变化提供解决方案深入探讨。

中国可再生能源学会理事长石定寰在中美合作展望的主题演讲中指出,中美两国多年前就在清洁能源领域开展合作,在朱棣文担任美国能源部长期间,两国还建立了多个清洁能源合作中心,多个机构参与。

石定寰说,“但我注意到清洁能源的合作中只有清洁煤、电动汽车、建筑节能等,并没有风能、太阳能和生物质能等可再生能源项目,我今天特别强调要加强两国在可再生能源的合作,包括可再生能源如何通过互联网进入能源系统里。”

石定寰认为,民间合作与官方合作相比更灵活,更广泛。利用民间已经合作得很好的机制,特别是加州硅谷这样的创新源地,已与北京中关村和中国的大学建立了很好的联系,要把这些民间资源组织起来,为他们搭建平台,更好交流。

中国电力科学研究院名誉院长周孝信表示,中国去年全国发电56000亿度,风能和太阳能只有4%,占很小的比例,还有很大成长空间。可再生能源发电最大的特点是波动性、间歇性和随机性,输出的不确定性给电力系统的运行带来不稳定性,储能(将不稳定的电储存起来稳定地输出)、预测分析风能都是中国发展可再生能源在技术上的迫切需求。

谈及中美在能源转型中的合作,清华大学能源互联网研究院院长曾嵘教授表示,美国有先进的新能源信息和材料技术,而中国的强项在于大电网建设及运行,直流技术和特高压输电技术。中美各有所长,有助于发展可再生能源。

美中绿色能源促进会主席吴锡九对中美合作前景表示乐观。“中美强强合作应对气候变化和能源危机,将是改善两国关系的金钥匙。”

促进会前身是加州大学伯克利分校华人协会,于2008年创会,目的为促进中美两国在应对全球气候变化、推广新能源、减少污染、解决能源危机等领域的合作。

促进会每年在中美两地轮流举办峰会,下一届将移师中国成都。

 

Recap: 2016 US-China Green Energy Summit

July 16, 2016
Long seen as a plat­form for dis­cussing the lat­est inno­va­tions in the green ener­gy space, the 2016 US-Chi­na Green Ener­gy Sum­mit (中美绿色能源促进会) once more brought hun­dreds of stu­dents from the Stan­ford and GSB Ener­gy Clubs, Stan­ford fac­ul­ty, and indus­try lead­ers from all over the world to San­ta Clara this past week. The 2016 con­fer­ence, orga­nized by the US-Chi­na Green Ener­gy Coun­cil, brought togeth­er gov­ern­ment offi­cials and ener­gy indus­try lead­ers from the Unit­ed States and Chi­na to dis­cuss chal­lenges involved with meet­ing increas­ing glob­al ener­gy demand while reduc­ing pol­lu­tion and car­bon emis­sions. It focused on glob­al visions and solu­tions to com­bat cli­mate change via the holis­tic inte­gra­tion of a new Chi­nese con­cept called the “Ener­gy Internet”.

What is the ‘Ener­gy Inter­net’?”  asked Pro­fes­sor Zeng Rong, one of the keynote speak­ers, head of the Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer­ing Depart­ment and Direc­tor of the Ener­gy Research Insti­tute at Tsinghua Uni­ver­si­ty, “First and fore­most, it is a smart and inte­grat­ed grid. Sichuan province is plan­ning to build 30 local area net­works and the greater Chi­na will expand wide area ener­gy net­works pulling ener­gy from the West­ern provinces like Xin­jiang to East­ern coastal areas and urban cen­ters. Sec­ond, it is the Cyber- Phys­i­cal ener­gy sys­tem focused on using machine learn­ing and data min­ing to increase ener­gy effi­cien­cy and load match­ing. Final­ly, it is the inno­v­a­tive busi­ness mod­el that con­nects non-ener­gy retail­ers, gov­ern­ment enti­ties and equip­ment providers.”

Among the oth­er keynote speak­ers on the pan­el were sev­er­al Stan­ford fac­ul­ty includ­ing Nobel Lau­re­ate and For­mer US Sec­re­tary of Ener­gy Steven Chu and Senior Research Fel­low Dian Gruene­ich of the Hoover Insti­tu­tion, as well as Pro­fes­sor Xiaox­in Zhou, Hon­orary Pres­i­dent of the Chi­na Elec­tric Pow­er Research Insti­tute and Dr. Peng Fang, CEO of GCL New Ener­gy Inter­na­tion­al, one of the lead­ing poly­sil­i­con solar cell com­pa­nies in Chi­na. Per­haps the most mem­o­rable part of the con­fer­ence includ­ed a speech by Dinghuan Shi, chair­man of the Chi­na Renew­able Ener­gy Soci­ety, who received a stand­ing ova­tion for demand­ing greater scruti­ny to the issues of clean ener­gy pro­duc­tion and ener­gy efficiency.

A brief his­to­ry of the Green Ener­gy Indus­try will show that in 2005 Chi­na intro­duced its first set of renew­able ener­gy reg­u­la­tions, which laid the foun­da­tion for future pol­i­cy and plan­ning mea­sures. In the recent 5‑year plan, rel­e­vant gov­ern­ment agen­cies have pro­mot­ed a series of prac­ti­cal ener­gy reg­u­la­tion poli­cies on a month­ly basis. How­ev­er, in the 13th 5‑year Plan non-fos­sil fuels will con­tribute to about 15% of the total elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­at­ed, while fos­sil fuels will con­tribute three times as much.

What is Stan­ford doing to address these issues and to enhance col­lab­o­ra­tion with our Chi­nese coun­ter­parts? Dian Gruene­ich, for­mer Com­mis­sion­er of the CPUC, respond­ed, “Our new ini­tia­tive Bits and Watts looks to work with the State Grid Cor­po­ra­tion of Chi­na. We are build­ing a phys­i­cal lab, one on cam­pus and one at the Stan­ford Lin­ear Accel­er­a­tor (SLAC). We are look­ing at the capa­bil­i­ties of the dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem oper­a­tor in terms of reli­a­bil­i­ty, safe­ty, and pric­ing of the sys­tem. “The ini­tia­tive is being head­ed by Pro­fes­sor Arun Majum­dar and Steven Chu, look­ing to bring advanced data ana­lyt­ics tech­niques to improve our elec­tric grid. While there was a focus on ener­gy tran­si­tion to renew­able ener­gy, the con­fer­ence con­clud­ed with talks on ener­gy tran­si­tions, new ener­gy vehi­cles, Inter­net of Things (IoT), and a Cli­mate Action Forum.

The 2017 US-Chi­na Green Ener­gy Sum­mit will be held in Chongqing, Sichuan in Chi­na next summer.

-Rahul Kini and Claire Yang

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Collaboration key on green energy, climate: experts

Updated: 2016-07-18 11:01

By Lia Zhu in San Francisco(China Daily USA) 

The US and Chi­na must work togeth­er in devel­op­ing renew­able ener­gy and to bat­tle cli­mate change, said experts attend­ing a green ener­gy sum­mit in Sil­i­con Valley.

Chi­na’s rapid eco­nom­ic growth brought increas­ing pres­sure on the envi­ron­ment and air pol­lu­tion, and the US led the world in green ener­gy inno­va­tion,” said Robert Wu, chair­man of the US-Chi­na Green Ener­gy Coun­cil. “We strong­ly believe the US and Chi­na work­ing togeth­er is the gold­en key to address not only the shared issues of the two coun­tries but also the glob­al challenges.”

Wu spoke at the 2016 Green Ener­gy Sum­mit in San­ta Clara, Cal­i­for­nia, on July 15, which was host­ed by the Sil­i­con Val­ley-based orga­ni­za­tion and attract­ed about 100 experts from Chi­na and the US.

The experts all agreed that the cli­mate had been aggra­vat­ed to an extent that con­cert­ed efforts had to be made to fight it. The US and Chi­na are the world’s largest economies and polluters.

Steven Chu, for­mer US sec­re­tary of ener­gy, told the sum­mit that the tem­per­a­ture had increased rough­ly 1 degree Cel­sius since 1880, and glac­i­ers were melting.

If we go 1 degree warmer, which is the UN goal (the Unit­ed Nations aims to lim­it the increase by that amount per year) … there’s a large frac­tion in Shang­hai and sur­round­ing area that would be under­wa­ter,” said Chu, show­ing a map of Shang­hai’s sea level.

A 6- to 9‑meter rise of the sea lev­el will like­ly cre­ate 500 to 700 world­wide cli­mate refugees and tens of mil­lions of peo­ple would be dis­placed in the Shang­hai area alone, accord­ing to the map.

The solu­tion for the poten­tial risk is sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy — ener­gy effi­cien­cy in build­ings, trans­porta­tion, the indus­tri­al process and else­where, Chu said.

Reusable ener­gy, pri­mar­i­ly wind, water and solar, could meet 60 per­cent of the pri­ma­ry ener­gy demand for both the US and Chi­na by 2050, Wu said.

The good news was that the price for the tech­nol­o­gy of solar and wind would con­tin­ue to decline for per­haps anoth­er two decades, Chu said.

For the next 20 years, you real­ly can expect con­tracts for whole­sale solar and wind being some­where in the 2–3 cents KWH (kilo­watt hours),” he said. “But you need an inte­grat­ed sys­tem that can use these inter­mit­tent resources.”

Long-dis­tance trans­mis­sion is anoth­er big deal, and Chi­na beat the world in the longest trans­mis­sion, Chu said.

The coun­try has installed about 60 GW (gigawatts) of high-volt­age DC and AC lines, and by 2020, more than 2,000 GW will have been installed.

Chi­na just start­ed build­ing a 3,200-km 1.1 MV (mega­volt) DC line, which los­es only 5 per­cent of its ener­gy while the vast major­i­ty of high-volt­age lines in the US are below kV AC, and 85 per­cent of the pow­er will be lost in a 500 kV line, accord­ing to Chu.

Chi­na leads the world in hydropow­er capac­i­ty, solar PV capac­i­ty, wind pow­er capac­i­ty and solar water heat­ing capac­i­ty, says the report. By the end of 2015, Chi­na had 199 GW of renew­able pow­er capac­i­ties, rank­ing the first in the world, which had 785 GW in total.

The US, helped by its high tech­nol­o­gy, got a han­dle on air pol­lu­tion prob­lems, par­tic­u­lar­ly in Los Ange­les, about 40 years ago. Chi­na has intense air pol­lu­tion now and has a rea­son to imple­ment high tech­nol­o­gy, said Jef­frey Ball, schol­ar-in-res­i­dence at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty’s Stey­er-Tay­lor Cen­ter for Ener­gy Pol­i­cy and Finance.

But the notion that Chi­na is sim­ply a tak­er of Amer­i­can tech­nol­o­gy is increas­ing­ly an out­dat­ed notion. Quite sophis­ti­cat­ed research and devel­op­ment are going on in Chi­na today,” he said.

There are actu­al­ly self-inter­est­ed rea­sons why both the coun­tries want to col­lab­o­rate,” he said.

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US, China seek co-op in green energy

By Xue Yujie (Peo­ple’s Dai­ly Online)    09:49, July 19, 2016

Add This Shar­ing Buttons

Experts and indus­try lead­ers from Chi­na and the Unit­ed States attend the 9th US-Chi­na­Green Ener­gy Sum­mit in San­ta Clara, Cal­i­for­nia, July 15, 2016. (Pho­to by Xue Yujie)

San Fran­cis­co, July. 18 – “For some time now, the U.S. and Chi­na, being the two largeste­conomies in the world, have been of one mind in tak­ing glob­al lead­er­ship by agree­ing onef­forts to achieve their respec­tive car­bon emis­sions goals,” said Mike Hon­da, U.S.Congressman & Vice Chair of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Com­mit­tee at the 9th US-Chi­na­Green Ener­gy Sum­mit in San­ta Clara, Cal­i­for­nia on Friday.

The Unit­ed States has com­mit­ted to reduce its green­house gas emis­sions by 26% to 28%below the 2005 lev­el by 2025, and to make “best efforts” to reduce emis­sions by 28%.Similarly, Chi­na announced the intent to peak car­bon emis­sions around 2030 and todou­ble its share of zero-car­bon energy

to 20 per­cent. In order to meet the chal­lenge­sp­re­sent­ed by this vision, Hon­da said, “We need to con­tin­ue invest­ing in research, and­con­tin­ue encour­ag­ing cross-sec­tor coordination.”

U.S. and Chi­na are two of the largest economies in the world, and also two of the world’slargest ener­gy con­sumers. Two coun­tries nabbed the top two spots on ener­gy pro­duc­tion­ca­pac­i­ties and invest­ment vol­umes in the world. Luo Lin­quan, Con­sul Gen­er­al of thePeople’s Repub­lic of Chi­na in San

Francisc0o said that the above facts show vast space and­prospects of the coop­er­a­tion between US and China.

I have had the priv­i­lege of observ­ing the progress Chi­na has made in the elec­tric­i­ty grid since my first meet­ing here in 1980, and I have a real appre­ci­a­tion for what the col­lab­o­ra­tion between teams from our two coun­tries can accom­plish,” Robert E. Larson,President of

the US-Chi­na Green Ener­gy Coun­cil told People’s Dai­ly Online.

Wu said in his keynote speech that “one of the most impor­tant things is to iden­ti­fy the common

inter­ests between the US and Chi­na, then we focus on that and move ahead.”

 

I’m very impressed with the abil­i­ty of Chi­na to be open in inno­va­tion. I am con­vinced that there is a real open­ness on many lev­els in Chi­na to think about inno­va­tion,” Dian­Gruene­ich, Senior Research Fel­low at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty PEEC and Hoover Insti­tu­tion­told People’s Dai­ly Online.

Accord­ing to Gruene­ich, com­par­ing to Chi­na, inno­va­tion in the Unit­ed States is some­times­more dif­fi­cult because it has entered its mature stage. “In Chi­na I think that with the openness,

there’s still a learn­ing curve in cul­tur­al aspects of how to bal­ance out dis­rup­tion­in tech­nol­o­gy and at the same time devel­op­ing its rules of law and mar­ket,” saidGrueneich.

At the USChi­na Green Ener­gy Round­table Forum on July 14, experts from over 30technology firms

and orga­ni­za­tions in US, Chi­na and Europe shared their visions andin­sights on four spe­cif­ic top­ics from Renew­able Ener­gy and Glob­al Ener­gy Internet,Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data, New Tech­nol­o­gy Vehi­cles and Ener­gy Mar­kets, and­Sil­i­con Val­ley Inno­va­tion and Smart City. Par­tic­i­pants were asked to address the ques­tions­from the secu­ri­ty and pri­va­cy con­cern of the IoT users to the gaps in tech­nol­o­gy to enableDe­mand Side Man­age­ment of New Ener­gy Vehicles.

The 2016 Sum­mit on Devel­op­ing Ener­gy Inter­nets to Com­bat Cli­mate Change brought­to­geth­er gov­ern­ment offi­cials from Chi­na and US with indus­try lead­ers in the Elec­tricPow­er, Renew­able Ener­gy, Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy and Inter­net Infra­struc­ture. StevenChu, Nobel Lau­re­ate and For­mer US Sec­re­tary of Ener­gy also attend­ed the summit.

 

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Col­lab­o­ra­tion key on green ener­gy, cli­mate: experts

(2016–07-18)The US and Chi­na must work togeth­er in devel­op­ing renew­able ener­gy and to bat­tle cli­mate change, said experts attend­ing a green ener­gy sum­mit in Sil­i­con Valley.

Chi­na’s rapid eco­nom­ic growth brought increas­ing pres­sure on the envi­ron­ment and air pol­lu­tion, and the US led the world in green ener­gy inno­va­tion,” said Robert Wu, chair­man of the US-Chi­na Green Ener­gy Coun­cil. “We strong­ly believe the US and Chi­na work­ing togeth­er is the gold­en key to address not only the shared issues of the two coun­tries but also the glob­al challenges.”

Wu spoke at the 2016 Green Ener­gy Sum­mit in San­ta Clara, Cal­i­for­nia, on July 15, which was host­ed by the Sil­i­con Val­ley-based orga­ni­za­tion and attract­ed about 100 experts from Chi­na and the US.

The experts all agreed that the cli­mate had been aggra­vat­ed to an extent that con­cert­ed efforts had to be made to fight it. The US and Chi­na are the world’s largest economies and polluters.

Steven Chu, for­mer US sec­re­tary of ener­gy, told the sum­mit that the tem­per­a­ture had increased rough­ly 1 degree Cel­sius since 1880, and glac­i­ers were melting.

If we go 1 degree warmer, which is the UN goal (the Unit­ed Nations aims to lim­it the increase by that amount per year) … there’s a large frac­tion in Shang­hai and sur­round­ing area that would be under­wa­ter,” said Chu, show­ing a map of Shang­hai’s sea level.

A 6- to 9‑meter rise of the sea lev­el will like­ly cre­ate 500 to 700 world­wide cli­mate refugees and tens of mil­lions of peo­ple would be dis­placed in the Shang­hai area alone, accord­ing to the map.
The solu­tion for the poten­tial risk is sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy — ener­gy effi­cien­cy in build­ings, trans­porta­tion, the indus­tri­al process and else­where, Chu said.

Reusable ener­gy, pri­mar­i­ly wind, water and solar, could meet 60 per­cent of the pri­ma­ry ener­gy demand for both the US and Chi­na by 2050, Wu said.
The good news was that the price for the tech­nol­o­gy of solar and wind would con­tin­ue to decline for per­haps anoth­er two decades, Chu said.

For the next 20 years, you real­ly can expect con­tracts for whole­sale solar and wind being some­where in the 2–3 cents KWH (kilo­watt hours),” he said. “But you need an inte­grat­ed sys­tem that can use these inter­mit­tent resources.”

Long-dis­tance trans­mis­sion is anoth­er big deal, and Chi­na beat the world in the longest trans­mis­sion, Chu said.

The coun­try has installed about 60 GW (gigawatts) of high-volt­age DC and AC lines, and by 2020, more than 2,000 GW will have been installed.

Chi­na just start­ed build­ing a 3,200-km 1.1 MV (mega­volt) DC line, which los­es only 5 per­cent of its ener­gy while the vast major­i­ty of high-volt­age lines in the US are below kV AC, and 85 per­cent of the pow­er will be lost in a 500 kV line, accord­ing to Chu.

Chi­na leads the world in hydropow­er capac­i­ty, solar PV capac­i­ty, wind pow­er capac­i­ty and solar water heat­ing capac­i­ty, says the report. By the end of 2015, Chi­na had 199 GW of renew­able pow­er capac­i­ties, rank­ing the first in the world, which had 785 GW in total.

The US, helped by its high tech­nol­o­gy, got a han­dle on air pol­lu­tion prob­lems, par­tic­u­lar­ly in Los Ange­les, about 40 years ago. Chi­na has intense air pol­lu­tion now and has a rea­son to imple­ment high tech­nol­o­gy, said Jef­frey Ball, schol­ar-in-res­i­dence at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty’s Stey­er-Tay­lor Cen­ter for Ener­gy Pol­i­cy and Finance.

But the notion that Chi­na is sim­ply a tak­er of Amer­i­can tech­nol­o­gy is increas­ing­ly an out­dat­ed notion. Quite sophis­ti­cat­ed research and devel­op­ment are going on in Chi­na today,” he said.

There are actu­al­ly self-inter­est­ed rea­sons why both the coun­tries want to col­lab­o­rate,” he said.

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2016–07/18/content_26129095.htm

Source:china dai­ly
Date:Jul 19,2016

http://en.ccchina.gov.cn/Detail.aspx?newsId=62543&TId=103%22%20title=%22US,%20China%20seek%20co-op%20in%20green%20energy

US, Chi­na seek co-op in green energy
Experts and indus­try lead­ers from Chi­na and the Unit­ed States attend the 9th US-Chi­na­Green Ener­gy Sum­mit in San­ta Clara, Cal­i­for­nia, July 15, 2016. (Pho­to by Xue Yujie)

(2016–07-19)“For some time now, the U.S. and Chi­na, being the two largest economies in the world, have been of one mind in tak­ing glob­al lead­er­ship by agree­ing on efforts to achieve their respec­tive car­bon emis­sions goals,” said Mike Hon­da, U.S. Con­gress­man & Vice Chair of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Com­mit­tee at the 9th US-Chi­na Green Ener­gy Sum­mit in San­ta Clara, Cal­i­for­nia on Friday.

The Unit­ed States has com­mit­ted to reduce its green­house gas emis­sions by 26% to 28% below the 2005 lev­el by 2025, and to make “best efforts” to reduce emis­sions by 28%. Sim­i­lar­ly, Chi­na announced the intent to peak car­bon emis­sions around 2030 and to dou­ble its share of zero-car­bon ener­gy to 20 per­cent. In order to meet the chal­lenges pre­sent­ed by this vision, Hon­da said, “We need to con­tin­ue invest­ing in research, and con­tin­ue encour­ag­ing cross-sec­tor coordination.”

U.S. and Chi­na are two of the largest economies in the world, and also two of the world’s largest ener­gy con­sumers. Two coun­tries nabbed the top two spots on ener­gy pro­duc­tion capac­i­ties and invest­ment vol­umes in the world. Luo Lin­quan, Con­sul Gen­er­al of the People’s Repub­lic of Chi­na in San Fran­cis­co, said that the above facts show vast space and prospects of the coop­er­a­tion between US and China.

I have had the priv­i­lege of observ­ing the progress Chi­na has made in the elec­tric­i­ty grid since my first meet­ing here in 1980, and I have a real appre­ci­a­tion for what the col­lab­o­ra­tion between teams from our two coun­tries can accom­plish,” Robert E. Lar­son, Pres­i­dent of the US-Chi­na Green Ener­gy Coun­cil told People’s Dai­ly Online.

Wu said in his keynote speech that “one of the most impor­tant things is to iden­ti­fy the com­mon inter­ests between the US and Chi­na, then we focus on that and move ahead.”

I’m very impressed with the abil­i­ty of Chi­na to be open in inno­va­tion. I am con­vinced that there is a real open­ness on many lev­els in Chi­na to think about inno­va­tion,” Dian Gruene­ich, Senior Research Fel­low at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty PEEC and Hoover Insti­tu­tion told People’s Dai­ly Online.

Accord­ing to Gruene­ich, com­par­ing to Chi­na, inno­va­tion in the Unit­ed States is some­times more dif­fi­cult because it has entered its mature stage. “In Chi­na I think that with the open­ness, there’s still a learn­ing curve in cul­tur­al aspects of how to bal­ance out dis­rup­tion in tech­nol­o­gy and at the same time devel­op­ing its rules of law and mar­ket,” said Grueneich.

At the US-Chi­na Green Ener­gy Round­table Forum on July 14, experts from over 30 tech­nol­o­gy firms and orga­ni­za­tions in US, Chi­na and Europe shared their visions and insights on four spe­cif­ic top­ics from Renew­able Ener­gy and Glob­al Ener­gy Inter­net, Inter­net of Things (IoT) and Big Data, New Tech­nol­o­gy Vehi­cles and Ener­gy Mar­kets, and Sil­i­con Val­ley Inno­va­tion and Smart City. Par­tic­i­pants were asked to address the ques­tions from the secu­ri­ty and pri­va­cy con­cern of the IoT users to the gaps in tech­nol­o­gy to enable Demand Side Man­age­ment of New Ener­gy Vehicles.

The 2016 Sum­mit on Devel­op­ing Ener­gy Inter­nets to Com­bat Cli­mate Change brought togeth­er gov­ern­ment offi­cials from Chi­na and US with indus­try lead­ers in the Elec­tric Pow­er, Renew­able Ener­gy, Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy and Inter­net Infra­struc­ture. Steven Chu, Nobel Lau­re­ate and For­mer US Sec­re­tary of Ener­gy also attend­ed the summit.

http://​en​.peo​ple​.cn/​n​3​/​2​0​1​6​/​0​7​1​9​/​c​9​0​0​0​0​-​9​0​8​8​0​7​4​.​h​tml

Source:People’s Dai­ly Online
Date:Jul 20,2016

https://​inven​tar​ian​dochi​na​.com/​2​0​1​6​/​0​7​/​2​0​/​u​s​-​a​n​d​-​c​h​i​n​a​-​c​o​l​l​a​b​o​r​a​t​i​o​n​-​k​e​y​-​o​n​-​g​r​e​e​n​-​e​n​e​r​g​y​-​c​l​i​m​a​t​e​-​e​x​p​e​r​ts/

Source:People’s Dai­ly Online
Date:Jul 20,2016

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