
Country region: Mainland China
Commodity category: energy and renewable energy
News date: April 2, 2021
On March 30, the Information Office of the State Council held a press conference in mainland China. Zhang Jianhua, director of the Energy Bureau, introduced the development of renewable energy in mainland China.
Certain achievements have been made in renewable energy, and the scale of development and utilization ranks first in the world.
The installed capacity of power generation has achieved rapid growth. By the end of 2020, hydropower, wind power, photovoltaic power generation and biomass power generation have ranked first in the world for 16, 11, 6 and 3 consecutive years respectively. The utilization rate continued to improve. In the past (2020), the power generation capacity of renewable energy in the mainland reached 2.2 trillion kwh, accounting for 29.5% of the power consumption of the whole society, an increase of 9.5% over 2012, supporting the proportion of non fossil energy in primary energy consumption in mainland China to 15.9%.
The level of technical equipment has been greatly improved. Mainland China has formed a relatively complete renewable energy technology industry system, including the world's largest independent design and manufacturing capacity of million KW water turbine units in the hydropower field, the world's leading low wind speed wind power technology, the increasing innovation of photovoltaic power generation technology, and the world record of battery conversion efficiency for many times.
Remarkable results have been achieved in reducing pollution and carbon. In 2020, the scale of renewable energy development and utilization in mainland China will reach 680 million tons of standard coal, equivalent to nearly 1 billion tons of alternative coal, reducing carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions by about 1.79 billion tons, 864000 tons and 798000 tons respectively, providing a guarantee for the prevention and control of air pollution.
Benefiting the people has yielded fruitful results. Since 2012, 31 large-scale hydropower stations with 64.78 million KW have been built in poor areas of the mainland, contributing to promoting economic development and helping immigrants get rid of poverty and become rich.
International cooperation continues to expand. As a large renewable energy market and equipment manufacturer in the world, mainland China continues to deepen international cooperation in the field of renewable energy. Hydropower business covers many countries around the world, and the photovoltaic industry supplies more than 70% of the components for the global market.
We will make overall plans to optimize the layout of new energy development, make full use of the relatively large space for grid connection and consumption of new energy in the central and eastern regions in combination with the conditions of new energy resources in various regions of mainland China, and actively promote the development and utilization of new energy. In the western, northern and other new energy resource intensive areas, scientifically plan and layout a number of power supply bases and power transmission channels dominated by new energy, so as to realize the overall optimal allocation of new energy power. Vigorously improve the flexible regulation capacity of the power system.
In terms of power generation, we will strengthen the flexibility transformation of thermal power generation, including promoting the construction of pumped storage power stations and natural gas peak shaving power stations. In terms of power grid, we will increase infrastructure construction, improve the ability to optimize the allocation of resources, and give play to the mutual promotion of large power grid resources. In terms of users, promote terminal power substitution, especially green power substitution, and improve market demand.
On the basis of ensuring the consumption of power grid, a mechanism for power supply, power grid, users and energy storage market entities to jointly bear the responsibility of clean energy consumption is realized through the integration of source network, load and storage and multi energy complementarity. Coordinate the resources on the load side, power supply side and power grid side, improve the new energy dispatching mechanism, improve the power system regulation capacity in multiple dimensions, and ensure that the regulation capacity matches the scale of new energy development and utilization.
Renewable energy will become the main body of increment
During the "14th five year plan" period in mainland China (2021-2025), the development of renewable energy will enter a new stage of development and present new characteristics.
Large scale development. During the "14th five year plan" period, the average annual installed capacity of renewable energy will be greatly increased, and the installed capacity will be further expanded. By the end of 2025, the installed capacity of renewable energy power generation will account for more than 50% of the total installed capacity of mainland power.
Market oriented development. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, the market will further play a decisive role in the allocation of renewable energy resources. From now on (2021), the development of wind power photovoltaic will enter the parity stage, get rid of the dependence on financial subsidies, and realize market-oriented and competitive development.
High quality development. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, we will accelerate the construction of a new power system with new energy as the main body, improve the consumption and storage capacity of new energy, not only realize the large-scale development of renewable energy, but also realize the high-level consumption and utilization, ensure the reliable and stable supply of power and realize the leap forward development of high quality.
Looking forward to the future, with the goal of "carbon peaking and carbon neutralization", give full play to the resource and technical advantages of renewable energy in the mainland, promote the market-oriented development of renewable energy with high proportion, high quality, low cost, and make greater contributions to ensuring energy supply, promoting green and low-carbon development of energy, and realizing the dual carbon goal.
Issue date: April 9, 2021
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