Could China’s power crisis help or harm its green energy push?

China’s energy crisis may just be getting started, and no less than its economic growth and its green energy future hang in the balance.

China’s energy crisis may just be getting started, and no less than its economic growth and its green energy future hang in the balance.

The problems started in late August when power curbs and outages began to affect at least 20 provinces in the country. Last week, residential blackouts started happening in China’s northeast.

And there is little immediate relief in sight for China’s power woes, given the global surge in coal and natural gas prices and rising energy demand, not to mention potentially extreme weather.