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| Just days ago it was announced that China's largest biomass energy producer Dragon Power has been granted a 28-billion yuan (or 4.1 billion dollar) loan from China Construction Bank to build 100 power plants in the country over the next five years. |
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| Speaking at a recent conference on China's growing clean tech sector just days before the announcement, |
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| Simon Parker, President of Dragon Power, told CRI how the biomass industry not only generates power, but also benefits the lives of local farmers. |
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| "We're coming into rural China and we're taking a waste product off the field and we're providing an income for that waste product." |
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| Although the company turns biomass into energy through combustion, which releases pollutants, |
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| the technology is still considered clean because the process of growing new crops absorbs Co2 emissions. |
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| While biomass in China currently only produces around 1 GW of energy per year, |
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| Simon Parker says there is potential to up this figure to 50 GW with the right investment. |
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| By comparison a nuclear power plant usually produces between 1 – 5 GW of power. |
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| But the director of Dragon Power says biomass is not just about generating energy. |
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| He says these power plants can also help stimulate local economies in rural areas. |
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| "It's not purely about generating clean power it's also providing a very different social value as well in terms of redistributing income. |
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| So we get paid from the government subsidy from fuel and from selling our electricity and anywhere from 50-60% of everything we receive goes straight back to rural china. |
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| There's no other renewable energy industry that's actually putting so much back into the communities in which they're based. |
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| China aims to increase its current use of non-fossil renewable energy from the current 9.9 percent to about 15 percent by 2020. |
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| Promoting the use of biomass will be a key part of this plan – and in the process, hopefully, local economies in rural China will also benefit. |
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| Dominic Swire, CRI news. |
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