costs within the China Energy Technology Program (CETP). China faces an enormous challenge, as it needs to meet the growing … demand for energy in general and electricity in particular. Coal is, and will most probably remain for a long time, the … dominant energy carrier in China, and its continued use causes enormous damage to public health and the environment. Such …

coal combustion by products. The average uranium concentrations of coals in China are estimated based on uranium analyses …Representative coal uranium concentrations are essential not only to better estimate the environmental and health … effects associated with the uranium emissions from coal utilization but also to utilize the potentially valuable uranium in …

a smog crisis and the recession of coal industry, China׳s 2013 policy change is major setback in its long-term efforts …In 2013, China׳s national government abandoned its previous cautious policy and started to promote large …-scale deployment of coal-based synthetic natural gas (SNG). Coal-based SNG is both carbon-intensive and very water-intensive. Driven by …

The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is … clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign … energy types. This paper discusses the evolution of price reforms for coal, petroleum products, natural gas and electricity …