China News Service, March 30, National Energy Administration Director Zhang Jianhua said on the 30th that my country's renewable energy power generation will reach 2.2 trillion kilowatt-hours in 2020, accounting for 29.5% of the entire society's electricity consumption, an increase from 2012 9.5 percentage points, which strongly supports my country's non-fossil energy to account for 15.9% of primary energy consumption, and fulfills the solemn commitment to achieve 15% of non-fossil energy consumption by 2020 as scheduled.
Data map: Large-scale power generation "windmills" on the Zhangbei grassland in Zhangjiakou, Hebei.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Yanmin
On the 30th, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on China's renewable energy development.
Zhang Jianhua pointed out at the meeting that renewable energy is a green low-carbon energy and an important part of my country’s multi-wheel drive energy supply system. It is important for improving energy structure, protecting the ecological environment, coping with climate change, and achieving sustainable economic and social development. significance.
Zhang Jianhua introduced that since the founding of New China, with the great attention of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and the strong promotion of the Renewable Energy Law, my country’s renewable energy industry has grown from scratch, from small to large, and from large to strong. It has gone through an extraordinary course of development.
In recent years, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, the national energy industry has thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping’s thoughts on ecological civilization and the new energy security strategy of “four revolutions and one cooperation”. Promoting the development of renewable energy by leaps and bounds has achieved great achievements that have attracted worldwide attention.
First, the scale of development and utilization ranks first in the world, providing strong support for energy green and low-carbon transformation.
The installed capacity of power generation has achieved rapid growth. As of the end of 2020, the total installed capacity of renewable energy power generation in my country has reached 930 million kilowatts, accounting for 42.4% of the total installed capacity, an increase of 14.6% 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, ranking first in the world for 16 consecutive years, 11 years, 6 years and 3 years respectively.
The level of utilization continues to increase. In 2020, my country’s renewable energy power generation will reach 2.2 trillion kilowatt-hours, accounting for 29.5% of the total electricity consumption of the whole society, an increase of 9.5 percentage points from 2012, which strongly supports my country’s non-fossil energy in primary energy The proportion of consumption reached 15.9%, and the solemn commitment to reach 15% of non-fossil energy consumption by 2020 will be realized as scheduled.
"Our installed capacity is now about 40% of renewable energy, and about 30% of our power generation is renewable energy. The total installed capacity of renewable energy is the largest in the world."
Second, the level of technical equipment has been greatly improved, which has injected surging momentum into the development of renewable energy.
my country 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 turbines, and the design and construction capabilities of ultra-high dams and large underground caverns are at the world's leading level.
Low-speed wind power technology ranks in the forefront of the world. More than 90% of domestic wind power installed capacity uses domestic wind turbines, and 10 MW offshore wind turbines have begun trial operation.
Photovoltaic power generation technology is rapidly iterating, and the world record of cell conversion efficiency has been refreshed many times. The photovoltaic industry occupies a global leading position. Among the top ten photovoltaic modules in the world, my country occupies 7 companies.
The integrated manufacturing of the entire industry chain has strongly promoted the continuous decline of wind power and photovoltaic power generation costs. In the past 10 years, the average cost per kilowatt of onshore wind power and photovoltaic power generation projects has decreased by about 30% and 75%, respectively. The industrial competitiveness has continued to improve, and it is a new model of renewable energy. , The vigorous development of new business formats inject strong impetus.
The third is the remarkable effect of reducing pollution and carbon, laying a solid foundation for the construction of ecological civilization.
Renewable energy emits neither pollutants nor greenhouse gases. It is a natural green energy source.
In 2020, my country's renewable energy development and utilization scale will reach 680 million tons of standard coal, which is equivalent to replacing nearly 1 billion tons of coal, reducing carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide emissions by approximately 1.79 billion tons, 864,000 tons, and 798,000 tons, respectively. , Which provides a strong guarantee for fighting a tough battle against air pollution.
At the same time, my country actively promotes the clean utilization of urban and rural organic waste and other biomass energy to promote the improvement of the living environment; actively explores the photovoltaic sand control mode that combines desert control, photovoltaic power generation, planting and breeding, and promotes the combination of photovoltaic development and ecological restoration to achieve The development and utilization of renewable energy and the construction of ecological civilization develop in harmony and complement each other.
Fourth, fruitful results have been achieved in benefiting the people and contributing green power to the decisive battle against poverty.
While advancing the extension of power grids in areas without electricity, my country has actively implemented renewable energy independent power supply projects, allowing millions of people without electricity to use green electricity, and successfully solving the problem of electricity consumption for people without electricity.
Since 2012, the construction of 31 large-scale hydropower stations with a total capacity of 64.78 million kilowatts has been started in poverty-stricken areas, contributing to the promotion of local economic development and the poverty alleviation of 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 poverty-stricken villages, 4.15 million poor households, generating 18 billion yuan in power generation income each year, and correspondingly resettling 1.25 million public welfare jobs. Photovoltaic poverty alleviation has become my country High-quality industrial poverty alleviation projects and one of the top ten targeted poverty alleviation projects.
Fifth, international cooperation continues to expand, making China's contribution to jointly addressing climate change.
As the world's largest renewable energy market and equipment manufacturer, my country continues to deepen international cooperation in the field of renewable energy.
The hydropower business covers many countries and regions around the world, and the photovoltaic industry supplies more than 70% of the modules for the global market.
The widespread application of renewable energy in the Chinese market has effectively promoted and accelerated the reduction of renewable energy costs, further promoted the development and utilization of renewable energy in countries around the world, and accelerated the global energy green transition process.
At the same time, in recent years, my country’s investment in renewable energy projects in countries and regions along the “Belt and Road” has shown a continuous growth trend, actively helping underdeveloped countries and regions to promote the application of advanced green energy technologies, and jointly build a high-quality green “Belt and Road”. "It has contributed Chinese wisdom and strength.
"Recently, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a series of important speeches, clearly proposing that my country's carbon dioxide emissions should reach a peak before 2030, and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, and non-fossil energy will account for about 25% of primary energy consumption by 2030. The total installed capacity of wind power and solar power has reached more than 1.2 billion kilowatts, further pointing out the strategic direction of my country's energy transformation and reform, and setting a new navigation mark for the development of my country's renewable energy." Zhang Jianhua said.
Zhang Jianhua pointed out that in the next step, the National Energy Administration will accelerate the implementation of the carbon peaking action in the energy sector, formulate more active new energy development goals, and vigorously promote the large-scale, high-proportion, high-quality, and market-oriented development of renewable energy in the new era. Implement renewable energy substitution actions, focus on improving the capacity of new energy consumption and storage, actively build a new power system with new energy as the mainstay, improve and improve the institutional mechanisms and policy systems that are conducive to the joint development and utilization of renewable energy by the whole society, and vigorously promote the development and utilization of renewable energy. Renewable energy has grown from a new force in energy green and low-carbon transition to a main force in carbon peak and carbon neutrality, providing a strong guarantee for the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system.