Promoting the development and utilization of renewable energy will lay a solid foundation for ecological progress

"Clear water and green mountains are gold hills and silver mountains" and "a good ecological environment is the most inclusive well-being of people's livelihood". In order to achieve the goal of peaking carbon dioxide emissions before 2030, China's petrochemical and coal industries with high pollution and high energy consumption will face new pressure to adjust the energy structure.

In the next few years, new energy will become a major focus of local economic development. When the reporter combed through the relevant energy planning proposals recently released around the country, it was found that most provinces have proposed to vigorously develop new energy and renewable energy, so as to optimize the energy structure. Zhang Jianhua, director of the National Energy Administration, said that renewable energy is a green and low-carbon energy and 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, tackling climate change and achieving sustainable economic and social development.

All localities promoted the development and utilization of renewable energy

The 14th Five-Year Plan and the 2035 long-term goals and proposals or drafts for comments have been released, and many localities have made it clear that they will do a solid job in peaking carbon and carbon neutrality, formulate action plans for peaking carbon emissions before 2030, optimize the industrial structure and energy structure, promote the clean and efficient use of coal, and vigorously develop new energy sources.

In February this year, the Shandong Provincial Energy Bureau formulated the "Guidance on Energy Work in the Province in 2021", which clearly pointed out that the installed capacity of renewable energy power generation exceeded 50 million kilowatts, and the investment of more than 30 billion yuan was completed within the year.

In March, the Shaanxi Provincial Energy Bureau issued the "Opinions on Promoting the high-quality Development of renewable Energy in Shaanxi Province" (draft for comments), which proposed that the total amount of renewable energy in Shaanxi Province during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period will increase the responsibility weight by about 1.5 percentage points per year, and the implementation of renewable energy double speed development plan.

Anhui Provincial Energy Bureau issued the "Notice on the Establishment of Anhui Province Renewable Energy Development three-year Action Plan project Library (2021-2023)", requiring all 2021-2023 to start construction (including under construction) of photovoltaic power generation, wind power, electrochemical energy storage, biomass and pumped storage power plant projects, Submit it to the Provincial Energy Bureau before March 25, 2021, and enter the project library.

In the 14th Five-Year Plan issued by the Tibet Autonomous Region and the proposals for the long-term goals of 2035, it is clearly required to speed up the construction of infrastructure such as power supply, power grid, and oil and gas; speed up the large-scale development of clean energy; form a comprehensive energy system with clean energy as the main source, and oil and gas and other new energy sources complement each other; and establish a national demonstration zone for the utilization of clean and renewable energy by 2025.

In addition, as the first renewable energy demonstration zone approved by The State Council, Zhangjiakou Renewable energy Demonstration Zone in Hebei Province also provides a "sample" for the development and utilization of domestic renewable energy. Data show that by the end of 2020, Zhangjiakou renewable energy installed capacity of more than 20 million kilowatts, non-water renewable energy installed capacity in the forefront of the country, annual power generation of more than 40 billion KWH, renewable energy consumption accounted for 30%, about twice the proportion of the national non-fossil energy consumption, the annual replacement of fossil energy of 14 million tons of standard coal, We will reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by more than 36 million tons.

Overall planning lays a solid foundation for ecological progress

Renewable energy does not emit pollutants, nor greenhouse gases, is a natural green energy. Recently, a set of data released by the National Energy Administration highlights the value of the coordinated development of renewable energy development and ecological civilization construction:

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 guarantee for the fight against air pollution.

By the end of 2020, China's cumulative installed capacity of renewable energy has accounted for 1/3 of the world's total installed capacity of renewable energy, becoming the backbone of global renewable energy development. Large-scale development has not only effectively promoted the rapid progress of renewable energy technology, but also promoted the rapid reduction of costs and rapid improvement of competitiveness, so that the global renewable energy, especially wind power and photovoltaic power generation, has become a new main energy from the goal to become a reality.

Huang Xuenong, director of the Power Department of the National Energy Administration, said that it is necessary to combine the conditions of new energy resources in various regions, make full use of the relatively large new energy grid-connected consumption space in the central and eastern regions, and actively promote the local development and utilization of new energy. In the western and northern regions and areas rich in new energy resources, scientific planning and layout of a number of new energy-based power bases and power transmission channels will be carried out to achieve the overall optimal allocation of new energy power.

It provides a strong guarantee for the fight against air pollution and provides strong support for the green and low-carbon energy transformation. China's renewable energy ranks first in the development and utilization scale in the world, and also lays a solid foundation for achieving the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality.

According to the reporter's understanding, with the large-scale development of renewable energy, China's renewable energy new models and new forms of business continue to emerge. It has created a new path for renewable energy to help poverty alleviation through photovoltaic poverty alleviation, provided successful experience for the cause of global poverty reduction, explored a new model of photovoltaic sand control, and carried out a successful practice of coordinated development of renewable energy and ecological environmental protection. China has promoted new business forms such as complementary agriculture and light, complementary fishing and light, and complementary animal husbandry and light, and is accelerating the deep integration of renewable energy with traditional industries such as construction, transportation, and industry, contributing Chinese wisdom to the innovative development of global renewable energy.

Based on long-term development, we will unleash more potential of renewable energy

During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, China's renewable energy has achieved large-scale development, especially the rapid growth of wind power, photovoltaic power generation and hydropower, which has played a decisive role in the transformation of electricity cleanliness and energy supply.

Data show that in 2020, China's renewable energy generation reached 2.2 trillion KWH, accounting for 29.5% of the whole society's 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.

By the end of 2020, the total installed capacity of renewable energy power generation in China has reached 930 million kilowatts, accounting for 42.4% of the total installed capacity, an increase of 14.6 percentage points over 2012. Among them: hydropower 370 million kilowatts, wind power 280 million kilowatts, photovoltaic power generation 250 million kilowatts, biomass power generation 29.52 million kilowatts, respectively for 16 consecutive years, 11 years, 6 years and 3 years ranked first in the world.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's renewable energy development is facing a new situation and new tasks, the boundary conditions of industry development, development logic and development mechanism will undergo a series of major changes, and the "14th Five-Year Plan" renewable energy development will enter a new stage.

"By the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan, the proportion of renewable energy generation capacity in China's total installed electricity will exceed 50%." Renewable energy will account for about two-thirds of the total increase in electricity consumption and more than 50% of the increase in primary energy consumption." Li Chuangjun, director of the New Energy and renewable Energy Department of the National Energy Administration, said that we will anchor the goal of reaching the peak of carbon and carbon neutrality, give full play to the resource advantages and technological advantages of China's renewable energy, promote the high proportion, high quality, low cost and market-oriented development of renewable energy, and make greater contributions to ensuring energy supply, promoting the green and low-carbon development of energy and realizing the dual-carbon goal.

Ren Yuzhi, deputy director of the New Energy and renewable Energy Department of the National Energy Administration, pointed out that in the future, it is necessary to continuously expand the application scenario and cultivate new industries, new models and new formats of renewable energy. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, emerging renewable energy formats characterized by intelligence, such as smart energy and multi-energy complementarity, will accelerate growth. He said that it is necessary to innovate the development model, promote the construction of new energy microgrids, renewable energy LAN, explore off-grid new energy power generation, and improve the independent development capacity of new energy; It is necessary to explore new forms of business, and promote demonstration projects such as "photovoltaic + solar thermal", photovoltaic sand control, new energy experimental demonstration platform, "new energy + storage", and the integration of new energy and hydrogen energy.