Beijing is planning to scale up the use of geothermal energy. Local governments were asked last July to draft plans for geothermal energy use by 2020 and submit them by the end of 2014.
China is preparing an inaugural plan for geothermal energy development to the end of the decade, said Liu. He added the plan would be released in July or August.
China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection predicted last year that geothermal energy would provide the equivalent of 50 mt of coal-fired power by 2020.
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