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Comments on the promotion of the development and utilization of geothermal energy

Source: International Energy Agency
Last updated: 16 April 2021

For the promotion of China's exploitation of geothermal energy, National Energy Board, Ministry of finance, the Ministry of land and resources and the Ministry of housing and Urban-Rural Development  issuing the guidelines, installed capacity of geothermal power generation plan to achieve by 2015 the country 100,000-kilowatt, annual utilization of geothermal energy capacity of 20 million tons of standard coal. As well as geothermal energy resources assessment, development and utilization of technology, key equipment manufacturing, industrial services, a complete industrial system. By 2020, geothermal energy exploitation and utilization of capacity of 50 million tons of standard coal, forming a perfect exploitation of geothermal energy technology and industrial systems.

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