The law is enacted in order to promote the exploitation of renewable energy, increase energy supply, improve the energy structure, ensure energy safety, protect the environment, and attain the sustainable development of the economy and society.

It builds upon the Renewable Energy Law of 2005. Similar to the Renewable Energy Law, it mainly focuses on the supply side of the RE sector, and expand the guidelines to include more detailed medium and long-term objectives and plans for renewable energy development in China.

Solar Power Development 12th FYP is based on Renewable Energy Law, National Economic and Social Development 12th FYP, Energy Development 12th FYP and Renewable Energy Development 12th FYP. It elaborates guiding theories and fundamental principles of solar power development during China's 12th Five-Year Plan, makes development target clear, and brings out key construction focus. In general, it provides a sound basis to direct solar energy development in China.

The plan is drafted according to requirement of Renewable Energy Law, based on the 12th FYP, Energy Development 12th FYP. It covers hydro, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and ocean, elaborates guiding theories, fundamental principles, development targets, key tasks, industrial structure, supporting measures and implementation mechanism of renewable energy development between 2011 to 2015 in China.

The plan covers four key technology areas: exploration and exploitation, processing and conversion, power generation, transmission and distribution, new energy technology. Prioritize efficiency improvement through plan and implementation process of all key technologies. According to energy development and structure adjustment, the plan clarifies targets for development of energy technologies and determines 19 important energy application technologies and major engineering demonstration projects.

The energy development plan is drafted in accordance with the 12th FYP for social and economic development with an aim to facilitate a change of energy production and utilization, adjust energy structure, and construct a safe, stable, economic and clean modern energy system. It serves as the blueprint and action plan of energy development in the 12th five-year period of China. Contents cover guiding ideology, fundamental principles, development goals, primary tasks and policy measures.

China's FYPs are blueprints providing overall objectives and goals related to social and economic growth and industrial planning in key sectors and regions. Compared to previous FYPs, the 12th FYP focuses more on the quality, rather than the rate of growth, as well as ensuring more Chinese citizens benefit from that growth. The 12th FYP has key themes of rebalancing the economy, ameliorating social inequality and protecting the environment. Some important initiatives of the economic rebalancing theme in the 12th FYP include a notional GDP growth rate target of 7 percent, promoting consumption over investments and exports, closing the income gap through minimum wage hikes and increased social safety nets, and a range of energy efficiency targets. Chinese planners have included several preferential tax, fiscal and procurement policies designed to develop seven “Strategic Emerging Industries” (SEIs). The seven industries are biotechnology, new energy, high-end equipment manufacturing, energy conservation and environmental protection, clean-energy vehicles, new materials, and next-generation IT.

To curb excessive consumption of energy resources and achieve the comprehensive, balanced and sustainable development of the economy, society and ecology, China keeps strengthening its efforts in energy conservation and emission reduction, and strives to raise the efficiency of energy utilization. As a result, energy consumption per unit of GDP has been decreasing year by year. China will continue to take the Scientific Outlook on Development as its guiding principle, and work hard to transform its development pattern, giving prominence to building a resource-conserving and environment-friendly society. It relies on scientific, technological and system innovation to raise efficiency in all aspects of energy utilization, further develops new and renewable energy resources, and promotes the clean and efficient development and utilization of fossil energy resources. The basic contents of China's energy policies are: "giving priority to conservation, relying on domestic resources, encouraging diverse development, protecting the environment, promoting scientific and technological innovation, deepening reform, expanding international cooperation, and improving the people's livelihood."

The Board of Investment defines tax incentives to promote sustainable development, enhance the country’s competitiveness in science and technology, to encourage the improvement of manufacturing quality as well as to reduce environmental impact.

The Tonga Energy Road Map 2010 - 2020 has the objective to lay out a least cost approach and implementation plan to reduce Tonga’s vulnerability to oil price shocks and achieve an increase in quality access to modern energy services in a financially and environmentally sustainable manner. The document provides for an Implementation Plan. The Indicative Implementation Plan is divided into three phases. Phase 0 defines the most urgent steps that should be undertaken without delay including policy, institutional, legal, regulatory, capacity strengthening and data gathering actions as well as environmental and social strategic assessments and investments in improved efficiency of electricity supply, improved network safety and end-use efficiency. Phase 1 includes works designed to implement the first set of Proof-of-concept renewable energy projects, including on-grid Solar PV supply and substitution of a portion of the fuel used in existing diesel engines with coconut oil. Phase 2 will involve further efficiency and renewable energy investments and will be initiated when all policy, legal, regulatory and institutional adjustments have taken place and when data and experience from the phase 0 and phase 1 activities have been evaluated. As technologies, costs, demand for electricity and sources of financing change over time, it is envisioned that the TERM will be periodically updated to take these factors into account. Targets include the achievement of a 50% reduction in petroleum use relative to a business-asusual scenario, as well as an improvement in energy efficiency by 18% in power generation, power distribution, business of selling, managing, operating and maintaining power assets, and the end use of power.