Analysis: China’s shale gas of little help to clean up power mix

Friday, 02 September 2016

Cleaning up China’s power mix is becoming an increasingly tedious process as domestic shale gas production slows. Faced with a challenging geology and spiralling costs, the government cut 2020 targets by a third to around 30 Bcm, simultaneously to slashing subsidies – but analysts call even these reduced goals ‘unrealistic’.

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