The Opportunity and Risk of Geothermal Heating Investment in China
- Key words
- geothermal direct use
- Location
- China
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 2000
- Session
- Economic and Financing, Privatization
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- R0017
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Abstract
China has rich low temperature resources and an urgent need to develop district heating for meeting the needs of the market. There is an ever growing demand for the space heating and supplying domestic hot water in recent years in China. This paper is in the light of the Chinese practical experiences, briefly and specifically explains the factors of investment, Chinese general geothermal heating production processes, indexes, funds, risks and beneficial results assessment.
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