CRI-Q#9 What are China and the U.S. doing to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions?
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It’s been reported recently that in America, GE has partnered with networking giant Cisco to develop a municipal smart grid in Miami, Florida, and that will serve as a blueprint for other American cities. GE will be providing smart meters while Cisco will design and roll-out a secure network.
GE stands to reap up to $5 billion should, as is likely, a further 50 to 100 cities finally adapt the technology.
China uses ultra-high voltage (UHV) lines that allow for efficient electrical flow without significant loss.
This type of transmission is especially useful in a country as vast as China where resources are plentiful but unevenly distributed.
The Chinese power grid is currently made up of 1.18 million kilometres of old transmission lines that carry around
3 million gigawatts of electricity throughout the country.
Almost 7 percent of that amount is lost from inefficient power transfer.
China began operating a 640-kilometre UHV line across the central part of the country in January of this year. State Grid is so happy with how the line has performed that it is now installing two more lines that will each carry power a distance of 2,000 kilometres. The goal is to link dams in the southwest with the heavily populated eastern coast.
State Grid expects investments in UHV lines to increase significantly and is projecting to spend 300 billion yuan ($43.94 billion) on the effort by 2012.
As the worlds two leading emitters of carbon, both the United States and China need to find ways to collaborate and work together in the search for a global solution. Both nations need to work towards a sustainable partnership that will yield realistic approaches in order to balance the nations’ needs for environmental sustainability, energy security, and economic growth.
Brian Ho, Director, China, CSR - ASIA
Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility in the Asia Pacific Region
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Despite setbacks, there has been noticeable progress in recent years and the two countries have seen an increase in collaboration on Green Energy projects. Such initiatives are further advanced by organizations that seek to establish international platforms for collaboration on Green Energy investment, research and development, and policy making.
Brian Ho, Director, China, CSR - ASIA
Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility in the Asia Pacific Region
Engaging with the issues as they emerge
Help people know about this serious problem,and then raise people’s awareness of the common environment is very important,to include it in our daily lives.
Edgar, Sustainablist, Beijing
China and the United States are the world’s large economy country, and also large countries of carbon emissions. The two countries are facing same problems to improve energy efficiency. However, different development statuses of the two countries depend there should not be any constraint in exactly the same standards or evaluation.
In our views, for the two countries, in order to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions, it is necessary to achieve the technological advances and cooperation, from a production point of view to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions; It is based on the advantages of the two countries to achieve energy-efficient in optimization configuration, such as China make production as the dominant, the U.S. make technology as advantage. The combination of above will give full play to each other’s strengths while achieving energy efficiency and carbon emission reduction. The United States should be based on whole reduction in carbon emissions as the main assessment indicator, while China should be based on reduction range in units of carbon emissions as targets to consider, in line with the development of the current status of the two countries.
Of course, there is still a lot common or different work to do within countries. This is our immature views.
Billy-Li Xiang , General Manager / Director, Jia Cui (China) Environment and Development Promotion Center, Shenzhen, China. http://www.livcom.org