Wind Power in China: Ambiguous Winds of Change in China's Energy Market - Couverture rigide

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Kirkegaard, Julia Kirch

 
9780415787116: Wind Power in China: Ambiguous Winds of Change in China's Energy Market
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ISBN 10 : 0415787114 ISBN 13 : 9780415787116
Editeur : Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Whilst China's growing economy is widely regarded as being responsible for severe environmental degradation and a high reliance on energy from fossil fuels, China is emerging as a potential leader in new green energy technologies. Outlining the extraordinary growth in China's wind power capacity since 2005, this book explores the deliberate creation of a whole industry and the strategy of transitioning the power sector to renewable energy by accelerated experimentation and through literally pushing the emerging wind power sector to its limits. Investigating how wind power may not always be considered as sustainable in a wider Chinese developmental context, the book traces the struggle China has had in getting this high technology sector to qualify as truly Chinese scientific development, whilst often being opaquely at the mercy of foreign expertise, technology, and certification. The book furthermore exposes the surprising nuances, dynamics, and potency of unexpected players in Chinese wind power marketisation. Complex interplays are revealed between wind turbine control systems, algorithms in critical software technology, relationships between suppliers, wind farm developers, financiers, the electrical grid itself, the coal lobby, the broader Chinese state, and much more. The book has important implications far beyond wind power and contemporary China studies, highlighting the much wider story of China's fragmented and experimental style of innovating, upgrading, and greening.

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À propos de l'auteur

Julia Kirch Kirkegaard is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, as well as at Copenhagen Business School and the Technical University of Denmark

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415787114
ISBN 13 
9780415787116
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
370
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780367583156: Wind Power in China

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ISBN 10 :  0367583151 ISBN 13 :  9780367583156
Editeur : Routledge, 2020
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