A man stands in front of a wind turbine in Gansu province, where China is building the world's largest wind farm. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters.)

Grid leap forward

To much fanfare, Obama recently committed $3.4 billion to "smart grid" electric modernization. Now China is investing $670 billion.

By Jordan Calinoff — Special to GlobalPost
Published: November 20, 2009 14:03 ET

It’s no secret that China has embraced alternative energy on a massive scale. The Three Gorges Dam in China’s Sichuan Province is the world’s largest electric plant. It has a capacity of 18.3 gigawatts, enough that it could support the entire state of Alabama.

Now, in rural Gansu province to the north, the government is building a wind farm slated to generate even...

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