Duke’s Rogers: China besting U.S. on green tech

Jim Rogers, chief executive of Duke Energy Corp., says China is ready to pass the United States as a leader in energy technology. China often plays the heavy in discussions on the global issues of climate change and energy consumption. And Rogers notes the country plans to build the equivalent of 1,000 Cliffside coal plants by 2016. But China, he said, already leads the world in manufacturing solar energy panels. Next year the country will become the world’s top manufacturer of wind turbines.

“They are living the balanced solution on energy” says Rogers.

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