China's wind power industry to get rid of the "vase" image

Abstract from China wind power News network

    With the decrease in development costs and the continuous expansion of installed capacity, China''s wind power industry has evolved from an optional supplementary role to an alternative role. In this new stage, the formulation of the 13th Five Year Plan will no longer be scale oriented in the development of wind power and even the new energy industry. Cost reduction and subsidy withdrawal will become the focus of wind power industry development in the next five years.

    On October 18, at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Beijing International Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition, Li Peng, director of the New energy and renewable Energy Department of the National Energy Administration, also said, "No longer only pay attention to the scale of new construction, but also pay attention to utilization, especially the nearby and on-site utilization, not only to pay attention to kilowatts, but also to pay attention to kilowatt-hours."

    On October 18, at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Beijing International Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition, Li Peng, director of the New energy and renewable Energy Department of the National Energy Administration, also said, "No longer only pay attention to the scale of new construction, but also pay attention to utilization, especially the nearby and on-site utilization, not only to pay attention to kilowatts, but also to pay attention to kilowatt-hours."

    Despite rapid growth, China is only just getting started with wind power. At the end of last year, wind power accounted for only more than 3% of the country''s electricity generation, compared with Germany, Denmark and other countries, far behind.

    Li Peng pointed out that if the proportion of wind power in the total power generation in the future can not break through 5%, 10%, can not reach the current level of advanced European countries - accounting for more than 20%-30% of the total power generation, the entire wind power industry can not get rid of the outside world''s criticism of the "vase" role.

    Li Peng introduced that in order to achieve the national goal of "reaching 15% of non fossil fuels by 2020", after research and calculation, the proportion of non water renewable energy sources such as wind power should reach 9% of total power generation by 2020, and the proportion of wind power should reach around 6% -7%.

    In order to increase the proportion of renewable energy, an important new content will be added in the 13th Five Year Plan for wind power and even renewable energy, which is to actively promote the construction of demonstration areas, microgrids, and local power grids with a high proportion of new energy electricity. By promoting the integrated application of various forms of wind power, solar energy, and biomass energy, the proportion of clean energy in local areas has reached a high level.

    On the other hand, cost reduction and subsidy withdrawal will become the focus of the development of the entire "13th Five-Year Plan" wind power industry. Compared with photovoltaic, the cost of wind power has fallen relatively slowly in recent years. Li Peng said that in addition to non-fossil energy replacement of fossil energy, there is also a strong substitution effect between new energy, wind power, photovoltaic, solar thermal and other new energy, the speed of cost decline will determine its role in the energy transition to play a more important role.

    From the current situation, the cost of wind power needs to be reduced by 20% -25% from the current benchmark electricity price, which is a hard task. Li Peng emphasized, "This time window may only be about five years, and at most it will not exceed ten years. If it cannot be achieved, the industry will be very dangerous.

    In order to accelerate the withdrawal of subsidies, the National Energy Administration has recently been studying the commonly used renewable energy generation quota assessment and green certificate trading system internationally. It is hoped that a market-oriented approach will be adopted to determine the subsidy amount, while gradually reducing the demand for direct financial subsidy funds. According to Li Peng, it is still in the stage of widely soliciting opinions and optimizing research, and there are significant differences in the opinions of various parties on relevant policies.

    At present, the source of China''s renewable energy subsidy funds is the renewable energy surcharge in the sales electricity price, which is actually shared by the entire society''s electricity consumers. Various types of power generation sources such as coal-fired power do not bear any economic costs.

    In Li Peng''s view, with China''s signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the establishment and gradual improvement of the domestic Carbon emission trading market mechanism, the current situation is difficult to maintain for a long time. In addition to undertaking the obligation of pollutant emission reduction, fossil energy combustion will assume social and economic responsibility for carbon emissions, which will be an inevitable trend.

    The implementation ideas of the "13th Five-Year Plan" for wind power have also been adjusted, and different policies will be adopted according to the situation of different provinces.

    Li Peng introduced that provinces with good wind power utilization and no problem of wind curtailment and power restriction will set the planned goals as the minimum goal and encourage each province to set higher development goals; For provinces with severe wind power curtailment and restriction, it is hoped that during the 13th Five Year Plan period, the main focus will be on solving the consumption of existing wind power projects. Before the problem of wind power curtailment and restriction is effectively solved, the pace should be appropriately grasped, and the scale of wind power construction should not be hastily expanded. The problem of wind power consumption should be solved as soon as possible through various demonstrations and deepening institutional reforms.

    For the development of offshore wind power during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Li Peng specifically proposed that the offshore wind power industry should not be accelerated, and hoped that the entire industry could develop actively and steadily. We will further improve the policies and measures to support the development of offshore wind power, ensure that the support for offshore wind power is not reduced, and actively provide convenient conditions for enterprises to carry out project construction, and further promote the streamlining of administration and decentralization of power, and no longer prepare construction plans. Do not rush to success, including the whole machine manufacturing, construction technology research and development and other fields to do deep and thorough, and gradually promote the progress of the technical level of the whole industrial chain and cost reduction.

    Compared to onshore wind power, the construction and maintenance costs of offshore wind power are higher. During the 12th Five Year Plan period, the development of offshore wind power was slower. What we need is a healthy and stable offshore wind power industry, rather than a leapfrog development that leaves many hidden dangers, "said Li Peng.

    Therefore, the development goal of offshore wind power proposed by the National Energy Administration is to ensure grid connection of 5 million kilowatts of offshore wind power and strive to start construction of 10 million kilowatts by 2020. Li Peng believes that this planning goal is a realistic number.China wind power News network.

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