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PIX10702, Credit: William Wallace
A solar-powered yurt
at the Renewable
Energy Experiment and
Demonstration Center in
Hohhot,Inner Mongolia,
China.
Brightness Rural
Electrification Program
The Brightness Program is an international
effort designed to bring electricity to rural
areas. Since the Brightness Program was
introduced during the 1996 World Solar Peak
Conference in Zimbabwe, China has played
an active role in the program. China estab-
lished its Brightness Project Implementation
Planning in 1998 and the project has been
progressing in stages.
China’s State Council has allocated about
50 million U.S. Dollars (USD), or 400 mil-
lion Chinese Yuan (CNY), to support the
Brightness Program during the Tenth Five-
Year Plan period (2001-2005). The program
will provide electricity using both house-
hold and village systems and will focus on
Gansu, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and
Xinjiang provinces. Costs are expected to be
covered by users, local government grants,
central government grants, and foreign
grants.
China’s Brightness Project Implementation
Planning is a national program funded by
the central government that develops financ-
ing options, solar applications, and wind
generation, in order to provide electricity in
remote areas. It is a sustainable project for
poverty alleviation, and is an environmen-
tally friendly, wide-reaching program with a
high return on investment.
Targets
The overall target of China’s Brightness
Program is to provide electricity for 23 mil-
lion people in remote areas by 2010 using
renewable energy technologies. The goal is
to eventually provide 100 watts of capacity
per person. The targets for the first stage of
the program are to:
■
Establish stable financing schemes, mar-
kets, industries, technical capacity, and
training systems
■
Provide electricity access for eight million
people who do not currently have electrici-
ty, including about 2000 non-electrified vil-
lages, 100 non-electrified sentries and 100
non-electrified wireless message stations.
Results
The following results were achieved as part
of the first stage of the Brightness Program.
■
Installed 1,780,000 household systems,
2000 village systems, and 200 station
systems
■
Established national and local govern-
ment bureau financing approaches and
practical financing mechanisms
■
Established industrialized production
enterprises which can fulfill the demand
of the market
■
Set up a distribution and service network
and marketing mechanism
■
Installed a technical training system pro-
viding different levels of training for local
technicians and engineers.
Progress
Progress toward reaching the goals of China’s
Brightness Program include:
■
Signing of a project agreement between
three provincial planning committees and
the National Development and Reform
Commission (NDRC—formerly the State
Development and Planning Commission)
/Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)
■
Publication of project scale and require-
ments in the three provinces including:
❖
At least 4000 wind/PV (W/PV) hybrid
home systems; 1 wind/diesel/battery
(W/D/B) village system will be installed
in Inner Mongolia
❖
At least 12,000 PV home systems will be
installed in Gansu
❖
At least five PV village systems averaging
six Kilowatts (kW) will be installed in Tibet
Renewable Energy in China
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China’s Brightness Program will
provide electricity for 23 million
people in remote areas in China by
making use of renewable resources
like solar PV and wind generation.
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The Brightness Program targeted the
following regions:
Inner Mongolia: 518 sets of W/PV home
systems and 1 W/D/B village system
were installed, totaling 165 kW wind
and 63 kW PV.
Tibet: Four sets of 6 kW village PV stations
were installed, and two local techni-
cians were trained for each station. In
the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, 100,000
PV home systems producing about 7.7
MW and 400 PV village stations produc-
ing about 2.4 MW as well as 1 training/
service/dissemination center in Lhasa,
and 50 service stations were installed.
Gansu: 5,515 small PV home systems
were installed with a total capacity
of 124.7 kW.
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Contacts
Beijing Jikedian Renewable Energy
Development Center
Ma Shenghong
Tele: +86 (10) 6255-1263
Email: msh@mail.iee.ac.cn
www.crein.org.cn/sub-pages/windpower/
windpower.htm
Energy Bureau
National Development and
Reform Commission
38 Yuetan Nanjie, Beijing 100824
P. R. China
www.sdpc.gov.cn
Typical PV-powered
lighting system used in
western China .
Brightness Rural Electrification Program
The following fact sheets on renewable
energy in China are available on the National
Renewable Energy Laboratory’s China Web site
(www.nrel.gov/china).
■
WB/GEF Renewable Energy
Development Project
■
Grid Connected Wind Power in China
■
Renewable Energy Policy in China:Overview
■
Renewable Energy Policy in China: Financial
Incentives
■
Township Electrification Program
■
China’s Plan for Renewable Energy
■
Brightness Rural Electrification Program
■
Renewable Energy Business Partnerships
in China
These fact sheets were prepared by DOE/NREL
and the China Renewable Energy Industries
Association under the US/China Protocol
for Cooperation in the Fields of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technology
Development and Utilization.
Estimated Daily Energy Consumption of Rural Villages
Appliance
Number
Power
(watts)
Time
(hours)
Simultaneous
Factor
Peak Power
(watts)
Consumption
(kWh)
E.S.Bulb
600
11
5
0.6
3,960
19.8
Television
80
70
4
0.8
4,480
17.9
Tape Player/
Radio
100
15
2
0.6
900
1.8
Washing Machine
20
280
1
0.3
1,680
1.7
Deep Freezer
15
120
8
1.0
1,800
14.4
Drilling Machine
1
800
1
1.0
800
0.8
Welder
1
1,000
1
1.0
1,000
1.0
Others
1
3,000
2
0.8
2,400
4.8
Total
17,020
62.2