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Wind overtakes nuclear in Chinese energy league table
2013-02-05 06:37:12| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Wind has overtaken nuclear power as the third largest energy source in China, as new figures show the emerging superpower has retained its lead as the largest wind energy market for a fourth successive year. According to figures published yesterday by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), China installed 15.9GW of new wind power capacity in 2012, equal to 35 per cent of the world's new onshore capacity. The figures also mean that wind power now accounts for 5.3 per cent of China's energy supply,...
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