{"id":259855,"date":"2010-02-01T13:05:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2010-02-01T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:05:38","slug":"china-to-invest-7-3-bln-in-smart-grid-projects-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259855","title":{"rendered":"China to Invest $7.3 bln in Smart Grid Projects in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/cleantech.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cleantech\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5965\" title=\"Picture 4\" src=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>China will invest $7.3 billion on smart grid projects this year, according to data compiled by Austin, Tex.,-based market research firm Zpryme.<span id=\"more-5964\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By comparison, this year the U.S. government is slated to spend about $7.1 billion on smart grid projects in the form of tax credits and cash grants.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s estimated that China will have to spend $100 billion over the next decade to modernize its electricity grid.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, the UK and France, according to Zpryme, are set to spend less than $300 million of their own stimulus funding on smart grid initiatives. Zpryme&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/smart_grid_snapshot_global_and_china-federal_stimulus_funding_zpryme_jan27_2010.pdf\">Research Director<\/a> Jason Rodriguez tells the New York Time\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/01\/chinas-smart-grid-investments-growing\/\" >Green Inc.<\/a>, that both the UK and France smart grid projects  are \u201calready more advanced in smart grid infrastructure than the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Companies set to benefit from smart grid investments in the U.S, and China and across the globe include General Electric, IBM and Hewlett Packard.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Graph: Zpryme<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/gx054ZxLNpc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China will invest $7.3 billion on smart grid projects this year, according to data compiled by Austin, Tex.,-based market research firm Zpryme. By comparison, this year the U.S. government is slated to spend about $7.1 billion on smart grid projects in the form of tax credits and cash grants. It&#8217;s estimated that China will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259855","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\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}