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China will remain the world’s leading renewable energy market at least until 2020.

The largest hydroelectric project on the Upper Mekong River Basin officially began generating power yesterday. The Nuozhadu dam near Pu'er will be China's fourth largest hydropower plant when finished in 2014, energy website RedNet is reporting.The embankment dam rises 261.5 meters above the Mekong River, or Lancang River  in Chinese. Construction on the dam is not complete and only one of a planned nine 650 megawatt generators is currently in operation.When fully operational the power plant will produce an estimated 24,000 gigawatts of electricity annually. In practical terms, that is enough energy to power New York City for seven months. Project engineers at the power plant's September 6 opening ceremony said energy generated by Nuozhadu will save more than nine million tons ofcoal per year.The 61 billion yuan (US$9.6 billion) project broke ground in 2004 and is part of China's sprawling Western Development Strategy.One of the key goals of this policy is to utilize the region's numerous rivers for power production. Much of the electricity will be sent to larger, more energy-hungry cities on the east coast. Some of the power generated by the dam will be sold to Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.The project broke ground in 2004 and the reservoir behind the dam began filling last year. When completely full, the new Nuozhadu reservoir will have a surface area of 320 square kilometers and hold water equivalent to 11 Dianchi lakes.Nearly 43,000 people must be relocated to make way for the slowly f illing lake. Those efforts began in 2011 and will continue through this year.https://gokunming.com/en/blog/item/2788/yunnans_largest_hydroelectric_dam_goes_online  

Hanergy launched a thin-film solar cell manufacturing base and a photovoltaic power station in Qinghai Province.

US financial services giant Morgan Stanley has invested US$300 million in Zhaoheng Hydropower Co Ltd, the largest foreign investment yet in China's renewable energy sector.

China is advocating an “energy club” with former Soviet Union states to open new sources of energy for its ravenous economy.

Gamesa will supply turbines for a proposed 48MW wind farm project being built by the Longyuan Group at Jiangkou, in China's Fujian Province.

China National Offshore Oil Corporation has formally requested the Canadian government to approve its US$15 billion offer for Nexen.

JinkoSolar will provide 30MW of modules for a PV power plant in Hami City, Xinjiang Province, China.

GCL-Poly Energy Holdings has been given the green light to begin preparing for the construction of a 310MW ground-mounted PV system and a 30MW rooftop solar system in Dantong, Shanxi province, China, after it received approval from the National Energy Beruau.

The Year-on-year growth of PV markets in Asia-Pacific is expected to be around 80%, with 50% of it occuring in the fourth quarter, according to a research.

Clean energy provided 107 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in July, up 31% from a year ago.

It will take an investment of some RMB2.4 trillion for China to achieve energy conservation targets intended to make it a green manufacturer.