Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment Engineering (ICSEEE 2016)

Exploitation and utilization of renewable energy resources in rural areas of western China

Authors
Yong-Hua Wang, Guo-Liang Luo, Cheng-Feng Long
Corresponding Author
Yong-Hua Wang
Available Online December 2016.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment Engineering (ICSEEE 2016)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
December 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-278-7
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/icseee-16.2016.166How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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