Strategy:

The program’s main means for increasing China’s renewable energy is capacity building—teaching Chinese policymakers about effective international policies for promoting renewable energy development and helping them tailor those policies for China.
Such policies include:

1. Public benefits funds.
2. Mandatory market share (a.k.a., renewable portfolio standards).
3. Incentives for distributed generation technologies.
4. Renewable energy pricing regulations.

Example:

We are now helping China’s National Development and Reform Commission and its provincial counterparts reach China’s national renewable energy development targets—16 percent of all primary energy consumed in China is to come from renewable sources and China is to have 137,000 MW of renewable power generation capacity, including 30,000 MW each for wind and biomass, by 2020. Grantees are promoting several policy measures to help China reach these targets:

China’s aggressive Renewable Energy Law stipulates that 16% of the primary energy be from renewables by 2020.This should launch 137,000 MW of new renewable energy, including 30,000MW of wind power.

Source: National Development and Reform Commission, Medium and Long-Term Renewable Energy Development Plan (draft).

1. Training provincial government officials in renewable energy policy development.
2. Supporting renewable energy development plans in individual provinces.
3. Supporting the development of incentives for renewable energy development.