{"id":166190,"date":"2010-01-11T14:12:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T19:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2010-01-11T14:12:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T19:12:27","slug":"china-scraps-70-percent-locally-made-rule-for-wind-turbines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/166190","title":{"rendered":"China Scraps 70 Percent Locally Made Rule for Wind Turbines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/wind.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wind\" \/><\/p>\n<p>China is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601130&amp;sid=a6Py.AvPnWu8\">dropping a requirement<\/a> that 70 percent of wind turbines used in the country be made domestically, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was apparently driven by a desire to get the best turbine technology, which generally comes from Europe, into the country.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a political angle here too?<span id=\"more-5500\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, made a splash in November when he asked the Obama administration to <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/11\/schumer-no-hearings-planed-for-now-on-chinese-backed-texas-wind-farm\/#more-3887\">block stimulus funding<\/a> for a Chinese-backed 800-megawatt wind farm in Texas because the components would be made in China.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult for Chinese companies to cry foul about protectionism when they have home-made restrictions of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Still, big wind companies, like the Danish Vestas Wind Systems A\/S shrugged at today\u2019s news.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman said, \u201cThe ruling will make no difference to our operations, as 70 percent to 80 percent of our turbines are already made in China,\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/lgEGBHpGkiI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is dropping a requirement that 70 percent of wind turbines used in the country be made domestically, according to Bloomberg. The decision was apparently driven by a desire to get the best turbine technology, which generally comes from Europe, into the country. Is there a political angle here too? Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}