Wind and solar are both central to the Chinese government's plans to clean up its polluted urban air, meet growing power need and reduce dependence on imports, explains Recharge Insight.
That led planners at China's National Development Reform Commission (NDRC) to aim for 150GW of wind and 70GW of solar by 2017 under its latest set of mid-term targets.
The wind target looks "relatively undemanding and will comfortably be overshot", according to Recharge Insight, which looks at risk factors such as grid-connection shortfalls, feed-in tariffs and subsidy payment delays before offering its own forecast for 2017.
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