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On 6 April 2007, the Gansu Dang River Hydropower Project was registered as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in accordance with the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

• Hu, K.; Nakagaki, O.; Fukuda, M. Geothermal Energy in China: Status and Problems.

For the medium‐ to low‐temperature geothermal resources regions, geothermal heating will be developed in the northeast and north China, geothermal cooling will be developed in the southeast coastal areas, and medium‐ to low‐temperature geothermal power generation should be given priority under appropriate conditions.

It will initially focus on high-temperature resources, them move to low- and medium-temperature applications

Section The global distribution of high‐temperature geothermal resources is heterogeneous and is mainly concentrated within a narrow zone of the tectonic plate margin.The distribution of geothermal resources is closely related to the geological tectonic activity. Consisting of four separate but interlinked geothermal power plants, the Coso site is one of the top three producers of geothermal electrical power in the United States. On the other hand, the installed capacity of geothermal power generation in China is 27.78 MW, of which the contribution of high‐temperature geothermal power plants is about 97% (or 27.08 MW in Yangbajing, Yangyi) versus 3% of medium‐low ones (0.7 MW in Huabei Oilfield, Dengwu).Many of the world's high‐quality solar energy are consistent with the geotropical distribution.

Insofar as dry steam technology requires high steam quality, solid impurities (≥10 μm) and some gases (COWhen the geothermal fluid in the reservoir is a liquid‐gas mixture, the flash (also known as expansion steam power generation) technology can be used to generate electricity.

Thus, in 2016, overcapacity from hydropower stations in Yunnan and Sichuan amounted to 45.6 terawatt hours that implied the discounted electricity rates. It was initially handled by national bodies with public investments, and productive wells were transferred free of charge to the final user.

(Geo means “earth,” and thermal means “heat” in Greek. Cities such as Beijing and Tianjin have achieved excellent results in the use of geothermal water heating and industrial heat, and China's annual production capacity of directly used geothermal heat is the best in the world.Given the environmental impacts and benefits, an enhanced geothermal system (EGS) is considered as one of the most lucrative technologies for the large‐scale generation of electric power.The rest of this paper is organized as follows.

The low‐temperature heat is converted to useful work and electricity.The world's first medium‐ to low‐temperature‐associated geothermal power station was launched in 2006 in the Teapot Dome oil field in northern Wyoming, USA.

Tibet's Yangbajing is considered the most lucrative site for the EGS pilot project due to its abundant high‐temperature geothermal resources. In 1970, China's first geothermal power station (92°C, 300 kW) was built in Dengwu, Fengshun County, Guangdong Province.