ClimateWire: China has earned a reputation as the world's fastest-growing renewable energy market, but its offshore wind power program appears to be an exception.
The country has set a target to develop 5 gigawatts of offshore wind farms before 2016. So far, only 61 megawatts of wind turbines have been installed at sea along with 1.7 GW under construction, according to a statement published recently by the National Energy Administration. (A gigawatt equates roughly to the power output of one large U.S. nuclear...