Following the announcement of the China's 2020 national target for the reduction of the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 40-45% compared with 2005 levels, Chinese provincial governments prepared to restructure provincial energy policy and plan their contribution to...

Effective spatial planning is crucial for cost-effectively and sustainably developing biomass energy resources due to the diffuse nature of biomass and high transportation cost. Using the spatial analysis technology, economic models and scenario analysis, this paper presents a spatial planning...

Distributed energy (DE) is receiving lots of attention from the Chinese government. A number of DE projects have been constructed in China. However, there are still numerous problems with DE projects. What hinders the development of DE in China? The Huadian Jimei distributed energy project...

Spatial variation of solar energy is crucial for the estimation of the regional potential and selection of construction location. This paper presents a case study of using high resolution grid map of solar radiation combined with the other restriction factors to evaluate the comprehensive...

Erstmals werden die globalen Veränderungen in der Weltwirtschaft analysiert, die durch Chinas geopolitisches Agieren zu erwarten sind und die sich als Gegenpol zum angelsächsischen Isolationismus abzeichnen. Das Reich der Mitte steht wie Deutschland in der US-amerikanischen Kritik zu hoher...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the potential utility of the USGS Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) 1-degree, daily reference Evapotranspiration (ET<Subscript>0</Subscript>) products by comparing them with observed Oklahoma mesonet daily ET<Subscript>0</Subscript> over a 2 year period (2005–2006). The comparison showed a...</subscript></subscript>