Water and Energy Abstracts
  • Year: 2007
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue: 3

Big hydro in the red - the drive for de-friendly reform in China

  • Author:
  • Grainne Ryder
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 37 to 37

(Cogeneration and On-Site Power Production, May-June 2006, pp. 23–30).

Abstract

Centralized planning has delivered a series of large, centralized hydro electric energy projects to China, many of which have proved to be a serious mismatch to the power problems they were meant to solve. Here, author argues that consumer-oriented markets ought to guide investment decisions in the future, and that these would aid decentralized energy projects.

Keywords

Decentralized alternative, Hydro electric projects, China