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Vestas’ magazine Win[d] February 2010
Finding the perfect balance of supply and demand
Can a smart grid support the rapid growth of renewable energy, enable market-based competition and raise energy efficiency, all at the same time?

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.