Tristan Edmondson, founding partner at Mint Research, writes about China’s clean tech sector for a number of publications.

Interfax’s Energy Column – 11 November 2009
Opportunities abound in China’s nascent energy service industry
The scale of energy inefficiency in China means that in a country awash in capital there are many commercially viable energy efficiency investment opportunities. One way to realize that commercial potential is through ESCOs.

Vestas’ magazine Win[d] – November 2009
China’s sprint to become a wind power leader
China is building wind farms faster than any country in history – its rapidly growing economy is desperate for more green power. However, China’ sprint to become the world’s wind power leader could have unforseen consequences.

EU Chamber of Commerce’s journal Eurobiz – October 2009
Get Smart – China’s smart grid challenge (pdf file)
China needs cleaner energy, but it also needs a way to transmit it.

Proactive Investors China – 11 September 2009
Myth of the wind power panacea undermines the real work being done to cut China’s carbon emissions
Harvard and Tsinghua Universities published a joint report this week estimating that wind alone has the potential to meet the country’s electricity demands by 2030.

Proactive Investors China – 3 September 2009
On trying to make China energy efficient
What could be one of the most exciting sectors in China’s cleantech market is a financing structure for improving energy efficiency called energy performance contracting.

Proactive Investors China – 10 July 2009
Who will plug in China’s giant wind farms?
China has announced it is to construct seven 10GW mega wind farms, but China does not yet have a ’smart grid’ capable of distributing irregular power supply from China’s windy North and West to its industrial East.

Proactive Investors China – 2 July 2009
Alternative investments in a country hooked on coal
The Chinese government is now keener than ever to play up its alternative energy credentials, but in China the only scale-able and economic option is more coal; renewable energy simply cannot compete.