Wind and solar could contribute 14.3 trillion yuan ($2trn) to China’s GDP over the 15 years to 2030, attract 5.4trn yuan in investments and underpin employment for 7.7 million Chinese by the end of the next decade, according to a major new Greenpeace-led study designed to help speed the energy transition there.
The study – based on China’s projected power system development 2015-30 – sets out a comprehensive list of the benefits of the two key renewable sources to Asia’s largest economy, in a bid to counter what Greenpeace called “a lack of understanding” of their full impacts.
