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[email protected] November 2007 2 CONTENTS Introduction page 2 China's need for energy page 4 Sources of China's energy mix page 6 The challenges of China's nuclear program page 14 AREVA - Supporting China's ambitious nuclear program page 18 Strong opportunities in renewable energy page 21 A high potential market for AREVA's T&D Division page 22 Main Acronyms and References page 25 1 INTRODUCTION China has a great need for secure, safe, and economic energy supplies that combat the greenhouse effect and global warming. Since January 2002, China, the most heavily populated country with more than 1.3 billion inhabitants in a territory of 9.5 million km2 (17 times larger than France), has a nuclear capacity of 9 GWe with 11 nuclear plants on line. Forecasts of electricity consumption report a need for 900 to 1,000 GWe per year through 2020, and at this time the country’s objective is to increase nuclear- generated electricity from 1% to 4% of its total output. This means a need for additional 30 GWe, which is the equivalent of twenty 1,500 MWe reactors. In addition to nuclear power, China is pushing renewable energy. With the passage of the 2005 Renewable Energy Law, China's government imposed a national renewable energy requirement that is expected to boost the use of renewable energy capacity from 10 to 12 percent by 2020, up from 3% in 2003.