The western section of China's No.2 West-East gas pipeline starts supplying gas on Thursday. The pipeline now can transmit natural gas from central Asia to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The 8,653 km long pipeline starts from Horgos, Xinjiang and runs through 14 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and special administrative regions, including Shanghai and Hong Kong.
It is China's first large-scale pipeline project to transmit natural gas from foreign sources into the country.
China's pipeline starts pumping central Asian gas into Xinjiang (Xinhua/Jan 1, 2010)
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
China hopes to store natural gas
Article in Reuters from Dec. 28.
China to build natural gas storage facility in 2010
* Aims to avoid repeat go gas shortages
* Aims to curb excessive industrial usage of natural gas
China will start building storage facilities across the country for natural gas to avoid a reoccurrence of this winter's supply shortages at Chinese cities.
A cold spell across northern and central China since the beginning of this month has reduced supplies of natural gas to cities including Hangzhou, Wuhan and Xi'an, affecting transportation, industrial production and residential consumers.
"Natural gas consumption keeps expanding very fast while our reserves and peak-managing ability lag far behind," Zhang Guobao, head of the National Administration of Energy.... Zhang did not give the storage capacity but said that his office would work to curb excessive growth in industrial usage of natural gas while safeguarding residential consumption.
China's natural gas production grew by 8 percent in the first eleven months compared with a year earlier, while consumption expanded by 11 percent in the same period.
A natural gas pipeline linking Turkmenistan and China's Xinjiang was opened on December 14 to carry gas to six Chinese provinces including Beijing, Hebei and Shanxi, benefiting more than 50 million people, Xinhua quoted Zhang as saying.
China to build natural gas storage facility in 2010
* Aims to avoid repeat go gas shortages
* Aims to curb excessive industrial usage of natural gas
China will start building storage facilities across the country for natural gas to avoid a reoccurrence of this winter's supply shortages at Chinese cities.
A cold spell across northern and central China since the beginning of this month has reduced supplies of natural gas to cities including Hangzhou, Wuhan and Xi'an, affecting transportation, industrial production and residential consumers.
"Natural gas consumption keeps expanding very fast while our reserves and peak-managing ability lag far behind," Zhang Guobao, head of the National Administration of Energy.... Zhang did not give the storage capacity but said that his office would work to curb excessive growth in industrial usage of natural gas while safeguarding residential consumption.
China's natural gas production grew by 8 percent in the first eleven months compared with a year earlier, while consumption expanded by 11 percent in the same period.
A natural gas pipeline linking Turkmenistan and China's Xinjiang was opened on December 14 to carry gas to six Chinese provinces including Beijing, Hebei and Shanxi, benefiting more than 50 million people, Xinhua quoted Zhang as saying.
Renewable energy law amended
Article in The Wall Street Journal (Dec 28)
Chinese Law Aims to Increase the Use of Renewable Energy
"China announced new regulations to increase the use of renewable energy such as wind and hydropower by forcing electricity-grid operators to prioritize their use...
The new measures were passed Saturday by the standing committee of the National People's Congress, China's legislature, as an amendment to the 2006 renewable-energy law. The amendment will force powerful state-owned electric grid companies, responsible for distributing electricity from power plants, to buy all the electricity generated from renewable sources even when it is more expensive and more complicated to use than electricity from coal-fired plants."
Coal currently accounts for 70% of China's total energy use. China wants to increase use of renewable-energy sources to 15% of its total by 2020, up from 9% last year.
The government's efforts have encouraged a boom in renewable-energy development in China that has added more generation capacity than China's electricity grid has been using. That has left between a quarter and a third of China's wind farms stranded."
Chinese Law Aims to Increase the Use of Renewable Energy
"China announced new regulations to increase the use of renewable energy such as wind and hydropower by forcing electricity-grid operators to prioritize their use...
The new measures were passed Saturday by the standing committee of the National People's Congress, China's legislature, as an amendment to the 2006 renewable-energy law. The amendment will force powerful state-owned electric grid companies, responsible for distributing electricity from power plants, to buy all the electricity generated from renewable sources even when it is more expensive and more complicated to use than electricity from coal-fired plants."
Coal currently accounts for 70% of China's total energy use. China wants to increase use of renewable-energy sources to 15% of its total by 2020, up from 9% last year.
The government's efforts have encouraged a boom in renewable-energy development in China that has added more generation capacity than China's electricity grid has been using. That has left between a quarter and a third of China's wind farms stranded."
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