Anchoring carbon to peak carbon neutral goal "14th Five-Year" renewable energy ushered in high-quality development

New situation: into the "high quality jump" stage

In recent years, with the continuous development of policies and the continuous upgrading of technology, China's renewable energy has achieved leapfrog development, installed capacity, utilization level, and industrial competitiveness to a new level, and has made remarkable achievements, laying a solid foundation for the further high-quality development of renewable energy. Data show that by the end of 2020, China's renewable energy power generation capacity reached 934 million kilowatts, accounting for 42.5% of the total installed power generation capacity.

At present, China is building a carbon peak carbon neutral "1+N" policy system, and the development of renewable energy is the focus of it. Peng Cheng, secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of the General Institute of Hydropower and Water Conservancy Planning and Design, pointed out that in the energy supply side, it is necessary to vigorously develop clean renewable energy, as far as possible to replace fossil energy with non-carbon energy generation and hydrogen production, and build a "new power system or energy supply system"; At the end of energy consumption, it is necessary to strive to replace fossil energy consumption with non-carbon energy such as electricity, hydrogen energy, geothermal energy and solar energy in most fields such as residential life, transportation, industry, agriculture and construction.

The relevant person in charge of the new energy Department of the National Energy Administration said that in the face of the new situation and new requirements, renewable energy on the one hand should "stand first", further shift and speed up, and become the main body of energy consumption increase; On the other hand, China's renewable energy not only needs to achieve continuous technological progress, continuous cost reduction, continuous improvement of efficiency, continuous enhancement of competitiveness, and comprehensive realization of subsidy-free parity and even low-price market-oriented development, but also needs to accelerate the solution of key issues such as high proportion of consumption, key technology innovation, industrial chain and supply chain security, stability and reliability, and further improve quality and efficiency. We will move faster into a new stage of high-quality development.

"Plan" put forward the development goal, by 2025, China's renewable energy consumption will reach 1 billion tons of standard coal, "fourteen five" period, renewable energy in the primary energy consumption increase will account for more than 50%. Among them, in terms of non-electric utilization, in 2025, the scale of non-electric utilization such as geothermal energy heating, biomass heating, biomass fuel, and solar thermal utilization will reach more than 60 million tons of standard coal.

In terms of renewable energy generation, the "Plan" requires that by 2025, annual renewable energy generation will reach 3.3 trillion KWH; During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the increase in renewable energy generation accounted for more than 50% of the increase in electricity consumption in the whole society, and wind and solar power generation doubled. At the same time, for the consumption of renewable energy electricity, it is clear that "by 2025, the national total consumption of renewable energy electricity responsibility weight reached about 33%, renewable energy electricity non-water consumption responsibility weight reached about 18%, renewable energy utilization rate remained at a reasonable level."

New path: Adhere to the "five simultaneous development" and "four development"

Entering the stage of "high-quality development", renewable energy will usher in a new development path. The "Plan" pointed out that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the development of renewable energy will adhere to the "five simultaneous developments", that is, centralized and distributed simultaneous developments, onshore and offshore simultaneous developments, local consumption and export consumption simultaneous developments, single-variety development and multi-variety complementary developments, and single scene and comprehensive scenarios simultaneously.

In Peng Cheng's view, "single variety development and multiple varieties complement each other" and "single scene and comprehensive scene simultaneously" are new measures put forward in the face of land use space, consumption and system security and marketization issues. Among them, "single-variety development and multi-variety complementarities" requires that while doing a good job in the high-quality development of various types of renewable energy, it promotes the coordinated development of multiple varieties such as water scenery, water and fire storage in scenery, and regional coupled heating. "Single scenario and comprehensive scenario at the same time" requires the development of renewable energy power generation and energy supply itself, while promoting the integrated development of renewable energy with agriculture and forestry, ecological governance, and rural revitalization.