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China to raise price of clean power in 2 years
By Richard Fu |
March 31, 2011, Thursday
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China intends to raise the tariff surcharge for power generated from renewable sources by 50 percent in two years to encourage investment in clean energy, the China Electricity Regulatory Commission said yesterday.
Currently, grid operators are allowed to charge 0.004 yuan per kilowatt-hour more for electricity from renewable sources than conventional thermal power.
At the present price, only about 10 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) could be raised a year, enough to cover just 70 percent of the subsidies offered to clean energy producers in China, today誷 China Power News cited Huang Shaozhong, a pricing official with the CERC who made the comments during a seminar.
Government subsidies are expected to increase to enlarge the share of clean energy to 15 percent of all power consumed in 2020, Huang said.
China may raise the clean energy surcharge to 0.006 yuan per kWh this year or next, he said. The government last raised the surcharge in 2009.
China's renewable energy law, passed in 2006, requires power companies to buy all the electricity from renewable sources -- more expensive and usually unstable -- but also allows them to charge additional fees on buyers.
Currently, grid operators are allowed to charge 0.004 yuan per kilowatt-hour more for electricity from renewable sources than conventional thermal power.
At the present price, only about 10 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) could be raised a year, enough to cover just 70 percent of the subsidies offered to clean energy producers in China, today誷 China Power News cited Huang Shaozhong, a pricing official with the CERC who made the comments during a seminar.
Government subsidies are expected to increase to enlarge the share of clean energy to 15 percent of all power consumed in 2020, Huang said.
China may raise the clean energy surcharge to 0.006 yuan per kWh this year or next, he said. The government last raised the surcharge in 2009.
China's renewable energy law, passed in 2006, requires power companies to buy all the electricity from renewable sources -- more expensive and usually unstable -- but also allows them to charge additional fees on buyers.
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