A relatively complete renewable energy technology industrial system has been formed



As a green and low-carbon energy, renewable energy is an important part of China's multi-wheel drive energy supply system, which is of great significance for improving the energy structure, protecting the ecological environment, coping with climate change, and achieving sustainable economic and social development. Zhang Jianhua introduced that since the founding of New China, China's renewable energy industry has gone through an extraordinary development process from scratch, from small to large, from large to strong. In recent years, the national energy industry has vigorously promoted the leapfrog development of renewable energy and achieved great achievements that have attracted worldwide attention.

The scale of development and utilization ranks first in the world, providing strong support for green and low-carbon energy transformation. The installed power generation capacity has achieved rapid growth. By the end of 2020, the total installed capacity of renewable energy in China has reached 930 million kilowatts, accounting for 42.4% of the total installed capacity, up 14.6 percentage points from 2012. The utilization level continues to improve, in 2020, China's renewable energy generation reached 2.2 trillion KWH, accounting for 29.5% of the total social electricity consumption, an increase of 9.5 percentage points over 2012, strongly supporting China's non-fossil energy accounted for 15.9% of primary energy consumption. Meet the solemn commitment of 15% of non-fossil energy consumption by 2020 as scheduled. About 40% of the installed capacity is now renewable energy, and about 30% of the electricity generation is renewable energy, and the total installed capacity of renewable energy is the first in the world.

The level of technology and equipment has been greatly improved, injecting surging momentum into the development of renewable energy. China has formed a relatively complete renewable energy technology industry system. In the field of hydropower, it has the world's largest independent design and manufacturing capacity of million-kilowatt water turbine units, and the design and construction capacity of ultra-high DAMS and large underground caverns rank among the world's leading levels. Low-wind speed wind power technology ranks among the top in the world, more than 90% of domestic wind power installations use domestic wind turbines, and 10 MW offshore wind turbines have begun test operation. The rapid iteration of photovoltaic power generation technology has repeatedly refreshed the world record for battery conversion efficiency, and the photovoltaic industry occupies a leading position in the world, and China occupies 7 of the top 10 enterprises in the world for photovoltaic modules. In the past 10 years, the average cost per unit kilowatt of onshore wind power and photovoltaic power generation projects has dropped by about 30% and 75% respectively, and the industrial competitiveness has continued to improve, injecting strong impetus into the vigorous development of new models and new forms of renewable energy.

Remarkable results have been achieved in reducing pollution and carbon, laying a solid foundation for ecological progress. In 2020, the scale of renewable energy development and utilization in China will reach 680 million tons of standard coal, equivalent to replacing nearly 1 billion tons of coal, and reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides by about 1.79 billion tons, 864,000 tons and 798,000 tons respectively, providing a strong guarantee for the fight against air pollution.

Benefiting the people and benefiting the people with fruitful results, contributing green power to the decisive battle against poverty. While promoting the extension of the power grid in areas without electricity, China has actively implemented the independent power supply project of renewable energy, allowing millions of people without electricity to use green electricity, and successfully solving the problem of electricity consumption of the population without electricity. Since 2012, a total of 31 large-scale hydropower stations with a capacity of 64.78 million kW have been built in poor areas, contributing to local economic development and the promotion of poverty alleviation and prosperity for immigrants. Innovative implementation of photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects, a total of 26.36 million kilowatts of photovoltaic poverty alleviation power stations have been built, benefiting nearly 60,000 poor villages, 4.15 million poor households, generating power generation revenue of 18 billion yuan per year, and the corresponding placement of 1.25 million public welfare posts, photovoltaic poverty alleviation has become China's industrial poverty alleviation quality projects and one of the ten precise poverty alleviation projects.

International cooperation has been expanding, making China's contribution to jointly addressing climate change. As the world's largest renewable energy market and equipment manufacturer, China continues to deepen international cooperation in the field of renewable energy. The hydropower business is present in many countries and regions around the world, and the photovoltaic industry supplies more than 70% of the modules to the global market. The wide application of renewable energy in the Chinese market has effectively promoted and accelerated the reduction of the cost of renewable energy, further promoted the development and utilization of renewable energy in countries around the world, and accelerated the process of global energy green transition. At the same time, in recent years, China's investment in renewable energy projects in countries and regions along the "Belt and Road" has shown a continuous growth trend, actively helping less developed countries and regions to promote the application of advanced green energy technologies, and contributing Chinese wisdom and strength to the high-quality green "Belt and Road".

Zhang Jianhua said that in the next step, the National Energy Administration will accelerate the implementation of carbon peak action in the energy field, formulate more positive new energy development goals, vigorously promote the large-scale, high-proportion, high-quality and market-oriented development of renewable energy in the new era, accelerate the implementation of renewable energy alternative actions, and strive to improve the absorption and storage capacity of new energy. We will actively build a new type of power system with new energy as the main body, improve the institutional mechanisms and policy systems conducive to the joint development and utilization of renewable energy by the whole society, and vigorously promote the growth of renewable energy from a new force of energy green and low-carbon transformation to a main force of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, providing a strong guarantee for the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system.