My belief is that this Texas 600MW wind farm is a done deal between APWR and USREG and Cielo……..having Shenyang Power Alliance and APWR with the financing ability and the capacity to build all the wind turbines brings a unique situation that could be announced during the Obama China visit coming up Nov 15th!

Watch the 2nd video closely and LISTEN to the details and the Chinese answers and responses when asked about the financing deal.

Can China announce higher Wind Power and reduce the amount of coal being built ?? The anwer is YES!

A Squad of environmental scientists from Harvard University and Tsinghua University has established the tremendous potential for wind-generated electrical energy in China. By utilizing voluminous metrological information and integrating the Chinese government’s energy bidding and fiscal limitations for rendering wind power, the researchers approximate that wind exclusively has the potentiality to satisfy China’s electrical energy requirements projected for 2030.

Although wind-generated energy accounts for only 0.4 percent of China’s total present-day electrical energy provision, the nation is quickly turning into the world’s fastest developing marketplace for wind generation, chasing after only the United States., Germany, and Spain in terms of established capabilities of existent wind energy facilities. The change over from coal and other fossil fuels to greener wind-based energy could also extenuate CO2 emissions, thereby bringing down contamination.

Evolution of renewable energy in China, particularly wind, encountered a significant encouragement with enactment of the Renewable Energy Law in 2005; the law allows for encouraging tax position for alternate energy investment funds. The Chinese government also accomplished a grant bidding procedure to ensure a fair return for large wind projects.

To ascertain the viability of wind-based energy for China we based a location-based economical framework, integrating the bidding process, and calculated the energy cost based on geography,” said co-author Xi Lu, a graduate student in McElroy’s group at SEAS. “Using the same model we also evaluated the total potentials for wind energy that could be realized at a certain cost level.” Specifically, the scientists utilized meteorologic information from the Goddard Earth Observing Data Assimilation System (GEOS) at NASA. Further, they presumed the wind energy would be brought forth from a set of land-based 1.5-megawatt turbines functioning over non-forested, unfrozen, rural regions with an incline of no more than 20 percent.

The analysis showed that a network of wind turbines functioning at as little as 20 percent of their rated capacity could allow for possibly as much as 24.7 petawatt-hours of electricity yearly, or more than seven times China’s present-day uptake. The scientists also ascertained that wind energy exclusively, at around 7.6 U.S. Cents per kilowatt-hour, could accommodate the country’s total requirement for electrical energy projected for 2030.

By contrast, to cope with the magnified requirement for electrical energy during the next 20 years utilizing fossil fuel-based energy resources, China would have to build coal-fired power plants that could bring forth the equal of 800 gigawatts of electricity, resulting in a potential increase of 3.5 gigatons of CO2 per year. The use of cleaner wind energy could both meet future demands and, even if only utilized to supplement surviving energy resources, significantly bring down carbon emissions.

The Obama Visit will bring out quite the interesting amount of information concerning wind energy and USA/China new global levels and PPM targets………this is the GIFT of China to Obama as Obama reciprocates and allows this China Wind Farm into Texas………..imho

China drops “buy Chinese” policy for wind turbines
Submitted by ruonan_zheng on Wed, 11/04/2009 – 05:34
News China will drop its controversial “buy Chinese” policy for wind power equipment, making it easier for foreign companies to supply turbines to wind farm projects in the country.

According to local media, commerce minister Chen Deming announced the move late last week at the 20th China-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade talks, held in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.

The policy had mandated local governments to source more than 70 per cent of products and technologies from domestic sources when planning wind power projects.

While the abolition of the policy will likely benefit European firms, which have fallen out of the country’s top three wind turbine suppliers, it is primarily intended to focus on giving US manufacturers a foot in the door to one of the world’s most lucrative wind farm markets.

“The US had hoped that there would be no local content requirement in the wind power market and we agreed with that,” said National Energy Administration director Zhang Guobao. “So US wind power technology will enter the Chinese market equally and freely.”

State-run newspaper China Daily quoted US secretary of commerce Gary Locke as saying that the move “will open up China’s energy market to US companies and create jobs for Americans”.

The development coincides with the announcement last week of a planned 600MW utility-scale wind farm in Texas, for which China will supply all the wind turbines and most of the funding.

The $1.5bn (£914m) project, which is being developed by a Sino-US consortium, has drawn flack from some quarters in the US, as the project is expected to create a little more than 300 jobs in the US, compared to the 2,000 jobs predicted for China.

In addition, the consortium intends to source up to 30 per cent – or $450m – of the project’s financing from US stimulus funds, despite the fact that it will not benefit American wind turbine manufacturers.