Purbu, a native of Heping Village of Nyima County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, traveled to Lhasa, the regional capital, during the National Day holiday season to buy a solar energy converter as a dowry for his younger sister. Zhoima, the old Tibetan woman from the same village, now has one solar oven fixed at her home for cooking. "Solar energy resources will be wasted in vain if we don't use them," said Zhoima. "The most important thing is that solar energy is free of charge, pollution-free, and we can use it to grow vegetables in greenhouses and cook and heat." Targyai, a 65-year-old Tibetan herdsman from Coqen County, said from his nomadic tent that lamps powered by solar energy saved him 50 kg of ghee from burning for lighting or 1,200 yuan a year. Wang Haijiang, deputy head of Tibet Solar Energy Research and Demonstration Center, said that under the "sunlight scheme," Tibetans would get a subsidy of 50 yuan for purchasing a solar energy oven, which costs 300 yuan….more Solar cookers enter rural Tibetan families Tibetan solar energy capacity tops nationwide More Tibetan farmers use methane Golden solar marsh gas Geothermal energy plays leading role in Tibet economy New solar projects launch in Lhasa Donation ceremony held in Tibet to promote solar energy use Foundation helps needy herders more Tibet is weak in energy resources such as coal, oil and natural gas but rich in hydro, geothermal, solar and wind energy. Tibet produces approximately 200 million kilowatts of natural hydroenergy annually, about 30 percent of the nation's total. It has 354.8 billion cubic meters in surface water resources, 13.5 percent of the nation's total, and 330 billion cubic meters in glacial water resources….more ·Water Power Resources ·Solar Power ·Geothermal Resources ·Wind Energy Resources About Us | Contact Us | Site Map| Legal Warning Copyright © China Tibet Information Center E-mail:e-editor@tibet.cn Tel: 0086-10-58880347