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| (Courtesy CIA.gov) |
China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec), the country's biggest geothermal developer, vows to further develop geothermal energy nationwide and increase share of clean energy production, the China Daily reported Wednesday.
The company has replaced coal with geothermal energy in 10 cities nationwide so far, said Ma Yongsheng, president of Sinopec, during the 2018 China Geothermal Energy International Forum in Shanghai on Tuesday.
Sinopec, the world's largest refiner by volume, aims to replace coal with geothermal energy in 20 cities nationwide and boost its geothermal heating capacity to 120 million cubic meters by 2023, the newspaper said.
China aims to increase its installed geothermal energy capacity by 500 gigawatts from 2016 to 2020, according to the 13th Five-Year Plan for geothermal energy released in 2016, the first such plan in this field.
