China plans to reduce coal consumption to 65% or less of its total energy use by 2017, the central government said in a statement on its website Thursday.
China
plans
to reduce coal consumption to 65% or less of its total energy use by 2017, the
central government said in a statement on its website Thursday.
Coal currently accounts for about 70%.
The construction of new coal-fired electricity plants will no longer be
approved for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in the north and the Yangtze and
Pearl
River
deltas in the east and southeast, the government said.
The contribution of non-fossil fuels will increase to 13%, it added.
China
's
current five-year plan calls for boosting non-fossil fuels to 11.4% in 2015. Last
year, non-fossil fuels made up 9.1% of the energy mix.
Installed nuclear capacity will rise to 50 gigawatts by 2017, it added.
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