Latest comments posted about Getting out of the shade (1) on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/3003-Getting-out-of-the-shade-1- http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/3003-Getting-out-of-the-shade-1- Large-scale domestic market can't form without government subsidies,then equipment cost would maintain high for a failure to promote in both countryside and urban areas. Wed, 20 May 2009 00:10:01 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/3003#comment-8887 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/3003#comment-8887 Despite the existence of "Renewable Energy Law", "Circular Economy Promotion Law", for most housing estates in Beijing, solar water heaters are "appreciated by householders, but can't get access to the neighbourhood", reported by China Youth Daily. At the end of 2007, more than 70% of the large and medium-sized cities, and 65% of the residential areas had been banned entirely or partly from installing solar water heaters. In addition to the reasons made by the property management company: "ruining the integral view of the neithbourhood", "unsafe" and so on, the weak coerce in relevant laws and regulations and the lack of policy incentives are also the underlying reasons why the heaters "can't get access to neighbourhood". Internationally, the installation of solar water heater has become a compulsory act. Also in countries like Germany, Japan and the United States, a tax deduction or cash and other incentives has been developed to encourage individuals to purchase solar water heater. In China, the first step could be letting local governments issuing local norms of mandatory installation, providing the solar energy products with strong support. In the mean time, subsidy policies should be promulgated, to motivate both the construction applications developers and consumers of solar energy products. Translated by Wencong Wu Mon, 18 May 2009 04:11:03 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/3003#comment-8871 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/3003#comment-8871 Solar energy is certainly the best clean energy, but it still needs a lot of promotion. However, it is a good idea to link solar energy elements to national major engineering works. I used to work in a very cold mountainous area, and the people there liked solar energy the most, but the price of solar energy instillation was too high. If we can introduce the solar energy into the governmental major engineering works like new rural construction, maybe it can be promoted faster. Fri, 15 May 2009 09:59:49 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/3003#comment-8862 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/3003#comment-8862