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Volume 8, Issue 10 (Suppl)
J Earth Sci Clim Change, an open access
ISSN: 2157-7617
Climate Change 2017
October 19-21, 2017
CLIMATE CHANGE
October 19-21, 2017 | Rome, Italy
4
th
World Conference on
Greening energy supply in Tibet, China: A roadmap targeting the substantial increase in energy
consumption
Jianan Zhao, Shuai Zhong, Lei Shen
and
Zhi Cao
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
S
ince the beginning of 21
st
century, the rapid development of economy in Tibet creates a substantial increase in energy
consumption. Statistics derived from direct and indirect surveys show that total energy consumption has surpassed five
million tce, where electricity, petroleum products and biomass energy play the primary role. Furthermore, non-fossil energy
including hydroelectricity, photovoltaic power and biomass energy accounts for more than 50% in the total consumption. This
paper aims to provide a roadmap targeting the development of both energy supply and consumption under the current trends
of sustainable requirement (figure 1). Overall, clean energy is very abundant in Tibet, which is recognized as the region that
has the greatest potential in developing hydroelectricity, photovoltaic resources in the future of China. Moreover, the process
and scale of clean energy utilization has been extending along with the development of power grid with both of backbone- and
distributed- forms covering whole Tibet. In future, it is predicted that the development of hydroelectricity and photovoltaic
power is not only to satisfy the consumption in Tibet, but also have surplus power transmitted to other regions in China and
even other neighboring countries, such as Nepal and India. Therefore, it is expected that Tibet will become the most important
region of clean energy production and transmission in China.
Biography
Jianan Zhao is currently a Professor of Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He
has his expertise in the relationship between energy resources, regional development and industrial carbon emission. He has published more than 50 academic
papers in these areas.
zhaoja@igsnrr.ac.cnJianan Zhao et al., J Earth Sci Clim Change 2017, 8:10(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-036