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China's Rural Hydropower Installed Capacity will add 4 million kW this year

   ---Mr. Chen Lei, the minister of Chinese Ministry of Water Resources (MWR), said recently that China would vigorously develop the rural hydropower, newly add 4 million kW installed capacity, strengthen the management of rural hydro energy resources, finish the investigation and evaluation, perform well pilot projects of rural hydro energy resources planning, and promote transfer of use and development right of hydro resources on a payable basis.

   Mr. Tian Zhongxing, the director general of Rural Hydropower & Electrification Bureau of Water Resources Ministry, introduced that construction of China rural hydropower went on with rapid growth in 2007. The annual incremental installed capacity of rural hydropower was 6 million kW, and SHP constructing scale reached more than 20 million kW. Expanding the pilot project of Small hydropower replacing firewood would be fully active. The construction of rural hydropower electrification was steadily promoted. Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan, more than 10 provinces and regions which were rich in hydropower resources, issued the laws and regulations to strengthen management of hydro energy resources.

   China deserves the "Small Hydropower Kingdom". According to statistics from the Ministry of Water Resources, the exploitable rural hydraulic energy resources were 12.8 million kW, which ranked the first in the world. By the end of 2006, there were more than 40000 rural hydropower stations with annual power generation over 150 billion kWh were operating in the whole country. The rural hydropower had been the important component of supplying state electricity, supplying the electricity to half of the territory, one third of the counties and a quarter of the whole population. At the end of 2007, the new incremental hydropower installed capacity was over 15 million kW, of which 6 million kW was the rural hydropower.กกกก

   Mr. Chen Lei expressed that the hydropower was a clean and renewable energy, mostly concentrated in the central and western regions. Its distribution was in line with the strategic layout of the economic coordinated development of the urban and rural region. On the basis of ecological protection, orderly development of the hydropower resources and accelerating the hydropower development was of strategic significance and play irreplaceable important role in easing the energy supply and demand contradiction, improving energy structure, protecting the ecological environment and promoting sustainable social and economic development.(2008-02-21)

 

 

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