"Gas" natural gas power generation ① : As a clean energy, the role is quite awkward

Ye Chun, deputy director of the industry development and environmental resources department of the China Electric Power Union, is more optimistic about the prospects of gas and electricity development. "3060" target on the development of renewable energy to press the fast forward key, due to the characteristics of renewable energy, under the current grid planning and structure, there is a need for sufficient capacity and flexible power plants to adjust the grid load peaks and valleys. On the one hand, natural gas power generation with fast start-stop speed and flexible operation is currently a better peaking and frequency modulation power supply, and natural gas power generation has a broad space for development when energy storage can not play a greater regulation potential. On the other hand, compared with coal power, natural gas power generation is cleaner and low-carbon, and will become an important transition power source for building a new power system with new energy as the main body. "According to the development vision, the installed capacity of new energy in the country will reach 5 billion kilowatts, 50% of wind and light, 13 trillion KWH of electricity demand, and the maximum load of 5,200 hours." At the same time, considering the allocation of 10% to 15% of new energy storage, a large number of conventional units, energy storage, and demand-side response are still needed to help achieve power balance, and natural gas power generation still needs at least 100 million kilowatts."

The special place of natural gas power generation is that the upstream natural gas field and the downstream power field are undergoing market-oriented reform at the same time, and the price system needs to be straightened out. In order to promote the advantages and avoid the disadvantages, reducing the gas price and expanding the gas source is still an inescapable topic. So, is there a solution to high gas prices? And, for China, whose dependence on natural gas has climbed to 43%, is there enough natural gas to support the development of gas and electricity? In the next post, we will return to the source, starting with whether there is enough gas.