The State Council recently issued the "2024-2025 Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction"(hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"), which deployed ten major energy conservation and carbon reduction actions around key areas and key industries such as energy, industry, construction, transportation, and public institutions., clarified the overall requirements and key tasks for energy conservation and carbon reduction work for the remaining two years of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
The energy sector is the main source of carbon dioxide emissions. In recent years, my country's energy transformation has accelerated significantly, the energy structure has continued to be optimized, and the proportion of clean energy has continued to increase. Especially as of the end of March this year, the proportion of non-fossil energy power generation installed capacity has increased to 54.8%. In the first quarter, the proportion of non-fossil energy power generation has increased to 35%, laying a good foundation for energy conservation and carbon reduction work in the whole society.
However, we must still note that my country's energy transformation still faces many challenges. First, at this stage, the safe and reliable replacement capabilities of new energy sources have not yet been fully formed, and it is still necessary to give full play to the role of fossil energy as a guarantee. In the process of energy conservation and carbon reduction, we must not only control fossil energy consumption, but also take into account the need to ensure energy security. Second, new energy power generation has the characteristics of volatility and randomness. With the rapid growth of wind power and photovoltaic installed capacity, my country's problem of flexible adjustment of insufficient power resources has become increasingly prominent, and the pressure on new energy consumption has gradually increased. Third, problems such as users 'insufficient awareness of green power consumption, imperfect incentive policies and market mechanisms still exist, resulting in the insufficient release of green power consumption potential, which is not conducive to enhancing the enthusiasm of green transformation on the consumer side.
Energy transformation can provide basic element support for energy conservation, carbon reduction and green development in all walks of life, and is an important starting point for promoting energy conservation and carbon reduction in the whole society. Therefore,It is necessary to work together through the "subtraction" of fossil energy and the "addition" of non-fossil energy to create more favorable conditions for comprehensive energy conservation, carbon reduction, and green transformation of the economy and society.
Promote the reduction and substitution of fossil energy consumption.It is necessary to strengthen the clean and efficient use of coal, promote the low-carbon transformation and construction of coal power, accelerate the improvement of the flexible adjustment capabilities of units while realizing coal power's own energy conservation and carbon reduction, and support the large-scale development of new energy sources. In key areas for air pollution prevention and control, strictly implement total coal consumption control, focus on accelerating the electrification process in the industrial sector, reduce non-power coal use in various industries, and promote a steady decline in bulk coal consumption. Combined with the promotion of new energy vehicles in the transportation field and the development trend of low-carbon and zero-carbon fuels such as hydrogen energy, we will accelerate the substitution of refined oil consumption. On the basis of giving priority to ensuring residents 'lives and clean heating in the northern region, we will guide and accelerate the optimization of the natural gas consumption structure in an orderly manner.
Develop non-fossil energy with greater efforts.On the one hand, it is necessary to increase the development of non-fossil energy, continue to promote the construction of new energy bases and distributed development simultaneously, improve the supply capabilities of multiple clean energy such as wind, light, water, nuclear, biomass, and hydrogen energy, and realize the Action Plan."The goal proposed by the" Plan "is that the proportion of national non-fossil energy power generation will reach about 39% by the end of 2025. On the other hand, it is necessary to speed up the improvement of infrastructure networks such as new energy transmission channels, new distribution networks, and smart microgrids, strengthen the development and utilization of regulated resources such as pumped storage and new energy storage, and promote demand response such as virtual power plants and vehicle-network interactions. Promote and apply new models, coordinate the construction of adjustment capabilities in all aspects of source, network, load and storage, strive to improve the consumption capacity of renewable energy, and promote the generation, delivery and use of green power. In addition, although the cost of new energy power generation has dropped rapidly in recent years, large-scale and high-proportion consumption has brought about an increase in the cost of the power system. It is necessary to scientifically formulate and dynamically adjust the goal of reasonable utilization of new energy sources. The "Action Plan" also proposes for the first time to ensure that economic Under the premise of sex, the utilization rate of new energy in areas with better resource conditions can be reduced to 90%.
Strengthen market and price policy support and guarantees. Promoting energy transformation also requires giving full play to the role of the market to better stimulate the enthusiasm of various entities for energy conservation and carbon reduction. First, adapt to the needs of building a unified national power market system, deepen the market-oriented reform of on-grid tariffs of new energy, and orderly promote the participation of new energy in power market transactions. The second is to promote flexible adjustment of diversified development and utilization of resources, implement coal-fired power capacity electricity prices, study and improve the energy storage price mechanism, and promote normal operation in response to power demand. The third is to accelerate the release of users 'green energy demand, improve trading mechanisms such as green certificates and green electricity, strengthen effective connection with policies such as renewable energy power consumption responsibility assessment, dual control of energy consumption, and carbon market management, and adopt a market-oriented approach. Fully reflect the green value of new energy.
Original title: Doing a good job in "addition and subtraction" of energy transformation