Exploitation and utilization of renewable energy resources in rural areas of western China
- DOI
- 10.2991/icseee-16.2016.166How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Rural energy; Renewable energy resource; Energy poverty; Western China rural areas
- Abstract
Western China is confronting two urgent problems, rural poverty and environmental deterioration. The development of renewable energy boasts great potential to solve these two problems. In addition, developing renewable energy in rural areas of western China may result in several benefits, including meeting rural energy demands, protecting the environment, and promoting rural development. In 2007, about one million rural households had no access to electricity in Western China, and traditional biomass energy was dominant for cooking. Western China boasts plentiful renewable energy sources and utilizing these will be an effective way to alleviate energy poverty. The Chinese government's renewable energy projects implemented in rural areas of Western China have received attention, but barriers still exist in developing renewable energy. Therefore, strong support through appropriate budgets, taxes, credits and finance assistance from the government, encouragement in private investment for more financing channels, and the establishment of a complete rural energy service system are necessary. This paper examines the development of the exploitation of renewable energy resources.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yong-Hua Wang AU - Guo-Liang Luo AU - Cheng-Feng Long PY - 2016/12 DA - 2016/12 TI - Exploitation and utilization of renewable energy resources in rural areas of western China BT - Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment Engineering (ICSEEE 2016) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 926 EP - 940 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icseee-16.2016.166 DO - 10.2991/icseee-16.2016.166 ID - Wang2016/12 ER -