BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- China will be able to
substitute bio-liquid fuel for 10 million tons of refined oil products in 2020,
said a Chinese energy think tank on Tuesday.
Han Wenke, deputy director of the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission
(NDRC), said at theongoing forum on decentralized sustainable energy solutions
in China, that by 2020 renewable energy will increase China's energy supply
capacity by 400 to 500 million tons of coal equivalent.
Then renewable energy will account for 10 percent of
China's annual energy consumption, he said.
China's electricity installed capacity by renewable
energy willbe over 360 million kilowatts, including 300 million kilowatts by
hydro, 30 million kilowatts by wind farm, 150,000 kilowatts by small wind, 30
million kilowatts by biomass and 1.8 million kilowatts by solar.
By 2020, China's production capacity of bio-liquid
fuel such asfuel ethanol and bio-diesel will reach 12 million tons, which could
substitute some 10 million tons of refined oil products, said Han.
Soaring international oil prices have encouraged
investment in alternative energies. According to statistics of the Worldwatch
Institute, world output of ethanol and bio-diesel is over 30 billion liters in
2004, accounting for three percent of the total gasoline consumption that year.
Han said that China's current fuel ethanol production
capacity,with corn as raw material, is 1.02 million tons per year, and the trial
production scale of fuel ethanol with sweet sorghum as raw material is 5,000
tons per year. The annual production capacity ofbio-diesel is 20,000 tons.
China has been mixing a percentage of ethanol into
gasoline in some provinces including northeastern Heilongjiang, Jilin and
Liaoning provinces, and Central China's Henan and Anhui provinces.
The experiments in these areas are going well and the
NDRC is planning to expand it to more regions, said Zhang Guobao, vice-chairman
of the NDRC, at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2006 held last month.
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