Economic Daily, Beijing, April 29 (Reporter Wang Yichen) According to data from the National Energy Administration, the planned investment in key energy projects this year increased by 10.3% year-on-year.
The construction of the first batch of large-scale wind power photovoltaic base projects in the desert and Gobi desert areas has been accelerated, driving the planned investment in solar power generation and onshore wind power to increase by 202.6% and 13.3% year-on-year.
Investment in pumped storage and nuclear power continued to improve, with planned investment increasing by 31% and 20.5% respectively year-on-year.
The planned investment in oil and gas storage and transportation facilities increased by 51.5% year-on-year.
Facing the turbulent international energy situation, my country's energy industry has gone all out to increase production and supply.
Dong Wancheng, deputy director of the Development Planning Department of the National Energy Administration, introduced that in the first three months, crude oil production increased by 4.4% year-on-year; raw coal production increased by 10.3% year-on-year on the basis of the high base in the same period last year; natural gas production increased by 6.6% year-on-year; hydropower , nuclear power generation increased by 12.7% and 6.9% year-on-year respectively.
At the same time, the scale of renewable energy installed capacity has steadily expanded.
In the first quarter of this year, my country's newly installed renewable energy capacity was 25.41 million kilowatts, accounting for 80% of the country's newly installed power generation capacity.
Among them, hydropower added 3.43 million kilowatts, wind power added 7.9 million kilowatts, photovoltaic power generation added 13.21 million kilowatts, and biomass power generation added 870,000 kilowatts.
Coalbed methane has increasingly become an important gas source for my country to enhance its natural gas independent guarantee capability.
After several rounds of resource evaluation, the predicted resource of coalbed methane in China is about 26 trillion cubic meters, of which the cumulative proven geological reserves are 803.9 billion cubic meters.
In the first quarter of this year, the national coalbed methane production reached 2.3 billion cubic meters, a year-on-year increase of about 20.8%, accounting for about 4.1% of the domestic natural gas supply.
At present, the coalbed methane industry still faces certain difficulties in further large-scale development.
Liu Tao, deputy director of the Coal Department of the National Energy Administration, said that the conditions for the occurrence of coalbed methane resources are complex, and the economic benefits of the project are not good, but it also has the advantages of a long stable production period and good comprehensive benefits.
In the next step, we will continue to increase the competitive sale of coalbed methane exploration blocks, encourage social capital to enter the coalbed methane field, and accelerate the comprehensive exploration and development of coal-measure strata through comprehensive exploration, joint ventures and other means; continue to increase the financing for coalbed methane development. Policy support, and arrange investment support within the central budget for eligible coal-bed methane projects in coal mining areas.
Guide financial institutions to actively use re-lending tools to support the clean and efficient use of coal, and increase financing support for coalbed methane projects.
Strengthen the fair and open supervision of the oil and gas pipeline network, and implement the CBM market pricing mechanism.