TrendsAsia Ltd. is an independent market research and advisory firm. We provide on-the-ground research and analysis of clean and renewable energy markets in China. Most other companies’ China energy market research is produced at a very high level – “30,000 feet” – in offices in London, New York and Hong Kong. We go direct to the factories, business owners and government officials throughout China for critical information and insight the analysts don’t have access to. Our philosophy is “More Information. Less Words.” We provide market research in a variety of multimedia formats that are easy to read, view online, listen to and reference.
China has shown its commitment to being the world leader in renewable energy generation with investments in alternative energy projects of nearly US$35 billion in 2009 alone. With an installed capacity of over 50 GW, China is second only to the United States.
That’s the high-level view.
TrendsAsia captures what’s happening on-the-ground in China – real-time – to present to international investors, analysts, portfolio managers, CEOs, General Managers and Boards of Directors a more realistic picture of China’s clean and energy market.
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How Green is China Power? Really?
Facts only drawn from on-the-ground research that help analysts separate fact from fiction in China’s drive to develop and export renewable and clean energy technologies include:
- Most Photvoltaic (PV) Makers in China do nothing more with the toxic slurry generated from the manufacture of the silicon wafers that go into panels than bag it and stick it in back of factory compounds, which increases costs in the long-run for removal and toxin clean-up;
- Most of China’s wind turbine designers and engineers lack experience and training in the components and materials involved in building quality wind turbines with life-times greater than five years;
- The overwhelming majority of PV lines are manually operated, delivering PV cells with efficiencies of 16.3%, while many American buyers have thresholds of 16.7% – a “quality tariff”;
- Most offshore wind power projects in China are based in water no deeper than 10 meters, with producers lacking the know-how to seed wind turbines further out to sea, where wind power is greater and more continuous;
- More than 20% of PV domestic makers in China investigated in the Spring of 2010 had not gone into production yet; and very few producers are older than three years.
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Reduce Guesswork
TrendsAsia staff takes the guess-work and conjecture out of industry and company reports by:
- personally going into the interior of China to investigate Chinese factories manufacturing components and products for the solar, wind, and hydro power industries;
- touring Chinese power generation facilities;
- interviewing Chinese and Western business leaders and company managers operating in China;
- and through revealing conversations with local Chinese government officials.
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Fewer words. More Information.
TrendsAsia offices in Shanghai and Suzhou, China, support staff that deliver China energy sector reports and presentations in a lively, pithy format that rests soundly on sources who operate in energy industries inside China. We deliver market research through a variety of media channels: written analysis, video and audio commentary, and graphic. Banking analysts, venture capital firms, private equity firms, M&A consultancies in the world’s capitals glean information and insight from TrendsAsia:
- video tours of production facilities;
- recorded one-on-one discussions with Chinese corporate leaders and local government officials in China;
- graphs and graphics that frame and ground research conclusions;
- in-depth written market reports.
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Know the possibilities ….
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