国家能源局副局长万劲松：推动“十五五”可再生能源扩量提质、可靠替代发展Wan Jinsong, Deputy Director of the National Energy Administration: Promoting the expansion, quality improvement, and reliable substitution development of renewable energy during the 15th Five-Year Plan

Wan Jinsong, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the National Energy Administration, wrote that since the 14th Five-Year Plan, China’s renewable energy has achieved historic leaps, building the world’s largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system and establishing the world’s largest and most complete renewable energy industry chain. Anchored to the new round of national self-contribution targets, China’s renewable energy will continue to grow rapidly.

As of June this year, China’s total installed capacity of renewable energy power generation reached 2.455 billion kilowatts, accounting for over 60%. Among them, the cumulative installed capacity of wind and solar power reached about 1.951 billion kilowatts, accounting for nearly half, with solar power installed capacity basically on par with coal power installed capacity. In the first half of the year, China’s renewable energy generation was nearly 2 trillion kilowatt-hours, an increase of about 9% year-on-year, accounting for more than 40% of total power generation.

Wan Jinsong emphasized that renewable energy has entered a new stage of comprehensive market-oriented development, with consumption pressure rising simultaneously, and the industry is facing unprecedented external constraints and internal challenges. To accurately grasp the new requirements of the '15th Five-Year Plan,' it is necessary to adhere to the development mainline of expanding volume, improving quality, and reliable substitution: 'expanding volume' is the foundation, with total renewable energy consumption expected to reach about 1.8 billion tons of standard coal by 2030, directly supporting the goal of a 25% share of non-fossil energy consumption; 'improving quality' is key, with renewable energy needing to accelerate the shift from 'supplementary energy' to 'main energy.'

In terms of development path, by 2030, the total installed capacity of renewable energy power generation should reach about 3.5 billion kilowatts, with wind and solar power installed capacity exceeding 2.8 billion kilowatts; the total scale of non-electric use of renewable energy should reach 150 million tons of standard coal, and green hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol should move from pilot exploration to large-scale implementation.

In terms of task measures, the development of wind and photovoltaic bases in the 'Three North' region, offshore wind power bases, and integrated water, wind, and solar bases in the southwest will be accelerated; a number of integrated projects such as 'wind, solar, biomass' and 'wind, photovoltaic, solar thermal' will be built, and the development and construction of pumped storage power stations will be actively and orderly promoted; comprehensive green hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol industrial bases will be established in Northeast China, the 'several-shaped bend' of the Yellow River, northern North China, and the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, supporting the national goal of producing 2 million tons of hydrogen from renewable energy by 2030. In addition, the revision of the "Renewable Energy Law of the People's Republic of China" will be accelerated, the responsibility weight system for renewable energy power consumption will be improved, the market-based reform of the electricity price for renewable energy will be deepened, the green certificate and green electricity trading mechanism will be perfected, and the policy system and long-term mechanism for the development of renewable energy will be improved. [Source: Economic Daily] [Editor: Xiao Neng]