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China raises stakes on renewable energy

Publish date: March 9, 2006

China tries to eliminate its energy crisis and stakes on renewable sources of energy.

During the nearest decades the country intends to built and install numerous windmills to supply its cities and villages, ITAR TASS reported. Nowadays the total capacity of all the windmills stands for one million kW.

China has a possibility to increase this capacity up to one billion kW. According to the plans of the Chinese State Committee on Development and Reforms, capacity of all the windmills in the country in three years will stand for 3.3 million kW, 4 million kW by 2010 and 30 million kW by 2020.

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6th meeting of the Carbon Removal Expert Group summary and feedback 

The Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) has been formally approved by the Council on the 19th of November 2024 and entered into force on the 9th of December 2024, providing an official mandate for the Commission to develop methodologies on carbon farming and carbon removals. However, the technical documents and specifications are still being drafted and revised for input from the Carbon Removals Expert Group (CREG), of which Bellona is a member. 

Photo: Christening of Northern Lights’ first CO₂ carrier in Stavanger in 2025, by Olav Øye

A great leap towards a scaled European market for CCS: Northern Lights expands storage capacity, will store CO₂ from Stockholm  

Europe’s only multi-source, injection-ready CO₂ storage site will more than triple its capacity by 2028. The decision follows an agreement with Stockholm Exergi to transport and store up to 800 – 900 kilotonnes of CO₂ per year. “This decision is years in the making, and the culmination of decades of hard work from many, Bellona included” says Bellona Europa Director Jonas Helseth.

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