{"id":481,"date":"2010-05-23T23:57:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2010-05-23T23:57:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T18:27:14","slug":"role-reversal-as-us-utility-duke-energy-scouts-china-for-clean-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/2010\/05\/23\/role-reversal-as-us-utility-duke-energy-scouts-china-for-clean-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Role Reversal &#8211; US Utility Duke Energy acknowledges China&#039;s Clean Technology Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/2010\/05\/22\/reality-check-for-us-commerce-secratary-usa-is-already-far-behind-china-in-clean-energy\/\">The US Government needs a Reality Check<\/a> about who is leading the world in Clean Energy.While the US Commerce Secretary thinks that the US might lose the clean energy leadership to China , I think they might already have lost it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-05-23\/duke-scouts-china-s-energy-options-as-u-s-climate-bill-stalls.html\">The following US utility Duke Energy statement seems to corroborate my opinion. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cChina is going to set the standard for development and deployment of  clean energy,\u201d David Mohler, a senior vice president at Duke, said in an  interview May 21 in Beijing. Mohler was among representatives from 24  companies who joined Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on a trade mission to  China last week in a bid to increase trade in clean-energy  technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Duke Energy Corp. is scouting for new clean-energy technologies in China  after President Barack Obama\u2019s bid to pass U.S. legislation curbing  carbon emissions stalled, the company\u2019s chief technology officer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note Duke Energy was one of the participants in the US delegation to China <a href=\"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/2010\/05\/16\/us-wants-a-piece-of-chinas-clean-energy-boombut-china-only-wants-technology\/\">which went there to persuade the Chinese to open up to US investment in clean energy.<\/a>Ironically it is\u00a0 Duke Energy that is now looking for Chinese technology in the Clean Energy area.What a dramatic Role Reversal !!!!!! <a href=\"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/2010\/05\/10\/will-china-dominate-global-wind-like-it-is-dominating-solar-europeans-bleed-while-chinese-capture-marketshare\/\">China is already a leader in solar and may dominate wind as well.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>US laggard on climate change issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/2010\/05\/10\/bp-oil-spill-gives-another-excuse-for-the-us-to-delay-the-climate-bill\/\">The US has been procrastinating on a climate change bill<\/a> for a long time and was one of the main actors behind the failure of a global deal on climate change mitigation and global warming.The US Senate is busy playing petty political games while US companies are looking at China for Green Technology.Duke Energy which has 70% of its power being generated by the dirtiest form of energy cannot afford to wait\u00a0 for the climate bill indefinitely while the rest of the world progresses rapidly .Unless US gets its act together soon , it would be left too far behind to come back in green industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Government needs a Reality Check about who is leading the world in Clean Energy.While the US Commerce Secretary thinks that the US might lose<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79,24,40,43,67],"tags":[1070,2243,2256],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china-green-stocks-greeninvest","category-climate-change","category-renewable-energy","category-smart-grid-greeninvest","category-usa-green-stocks-greeninvest","tag-chinese","tag-government","tag-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}