Make clean and low-carbon energy "beautiful"

The "two-carbon" goal promotes the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system, which will make our energy healthier, safer and of higher quality

Experts believe that the commitment to the "double carbon" goal is a major event in China's economic and social development, which means that the energy transformation has entered a new stage. In the process of promoting the adjustment of the energy structure and the development of clean energy, we must adhere to the national chess game, improve the integrity and coordination of the system, which includes coordinating various energy varieties, optimizing the overall development layout, and simultaneously promoting carbon emission reduction, non-fossil energy alternatives and strategic energy reserves.

Du Xiangwan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and deputy director of the Expert Advisory Committee of the National Energy Commission, believes that we want to reduce carbon emissions, and at the same time, energy should not only ensure supply, but also have reasonable growth. Low-carbon is not to reduce energy, but to allow per capita energy consumption growth to reach a high-quality development stage. Low-carbon transition and energy security go hand in hand. A very important point of energy security is the security of supply and demand, and we must meet reasonable demand with scientific supply. At present, China's energy supply, on the one hand is the supply of fossil energy, on the other hand, we should gradually rely on non-fossil energy supply. Less than 1/10 of China's solar, wind and renewable energy resources have been developed, and the utilization of renewable energy resources is independent and controllable in China, which helps to improve the security of the energy system. We need to recognize that abundant non-fossil energy resources are also an important part of our energy resource endowment. A new understanding of China's energy and resource endowment is of directional and strategic significance for ensuring the country's long-term energy security and guiding energy transformation. The energy transition driven by the goal of peak carbon neutrality will make our energy healthier, safer and of higher quality.

By the end of 2020, China's installed wind power and photovoltaic power generation capacity has reached about 530 million kilowatts, accounting for 24% of the total installed capacity. In the future, new energy will continue to maintain the momentum of rapid development, and it is expected that by 2030, the installed capacity of wind power and solar power will reach more than 1.2 billion kilowatts, surpassing that of coal power and becoming the main installed capacity. By 2060, the proportion of new energy generation is expected to exceed 50%, becoming the main body of electricity.

Du Xiangwan pointed out that China's power load is mainly in the eastern region, in order to meet the demand for electricity consumption in the east, we should adopt the combination of "taking from the side and coming from the distance" to develop renewable energy resources. "Nearby" refers to nearby development in the eastern region. Compared with traditional fossil energy, the east of China has rich wind and light resources, which can be firstly considered through distributed photovoltaic, offshore wind power, biomass energy, waste power generation and other ways to achieve power generation and consumption. "Coming from afar" means supplementing the demand for electricity in the east through the development of photovoltaic, wind power and hydropower in the west.

Yang Liangsong, president of the International Energy Economic Research Institute of China International Cultural Exchange Center, believes that with the promotion of "carbon neutral and carbon peak" work, clean energy industry will be the main development direction of China's energy industry in the future. The northwest region of China has unique advantages in terms of light time and wind conditions, and the southwest region has unique advantages in terms of hydraulic resources, which is very suitable for the concentrated development of photovoltaic, wind power, hydropower and other clean energy industries. From the perspective of the future energy strategy of the whole country, the electricity demand in the eastern region is a more scientific way to take "take around" and "come from afar".

Peng Suping, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the National Energy Commission, pointed out that the energy system is a systematic project. At present, China's high carbon energy is more, the future is to solve the problem of clean, low-carbon response. In the next ten years, it should be the integration of traditional energy and new energy and hydrogen energy. In the process of building a clean energy system, the sustained and rapid growth of clean energy is the foundation, scientific consumption and utilization is the premise, the development of energy storage is the focus, and the improvement of institutions and mechanisms is the guarantee.