Energy New Deal will be intensive

On January 10, the 2012 National Energy Work Conference was held. Liu Tienan, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission and director of the Energy Bureau, said at the meeting that the energy work in 2012 will do a good job in strengthening energy supply support capacity building, focus on promoting energy structure adjustment, actively promote energy science and technology and institutional innovation, and reasonably control total energy consumption, strengthening Eight tasks such as energy industry management.

Strengthening the building of energy supply guarantee capacity has been placed first in energy work. The focus is to optimize the layout of energy development, implement the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, orderly start major energy projects, ensure the total amount of energy production, strengthen the construction of key energy production bases, strengthen the construction of energy transmission channels, and strengthen the reserves of oil, natural gas, and coal. Skill building.

On the basis of the above work, we will achieve "three stable and three advances" in energy work. "Three stabilizations" means ensuring a steady increase in the total amount of energy production, providing a stable energy guarantee for stable and rapid economic development, and ensuring that the energy market supply and demand and prices are basically stable.

“Three advances” refers to the substantial progress made in adjusting the energy structure, improving the energy processing conversion efficiency, and establishing a safe and stable economic clean modern energy industry system; it has made substantial progress in rationally controlling total energy consumption and improving energy efficiency. Real progress; tangible progress has been made in promoting innovation in energy science and technology and innovation in institutional mechanisms.

The energy structure adjustment brewing is actually progressing. After the “electricity shortage” and “coal shortage” harassed, the domestic energy supply and demand coordination will come to an end in 2011. Non-fossil energy as the main energy structure will also gradually adjust in the future.

Liu Tienan said that in 2011 China’s energy supply support capability has increased significantly, which has effectively supported the national economy’s growth rate of more than 9%.

The annual new coal production capacity was 95 million tons, the output of 14 large-scale coal bases reached 3.2 billion tons, 90 million kilowatts of newly-added electric power was installed, and the country’s electric power installed capacity reached 1.05 billion kilowatts. It is estimated that in 2012, the new coal production capacity will be 200 million tons, and the newly added power generation capacity will be about 70 million kilowatts.

According to the information from the National Energy Administration, China's renewable energy and new energy sources developed rapidly in 2011, with hydropower installed capacity reaching 230 million kilowatts and a scale of 55 million kilowatts under construction. The new start-up Zhaduo and other 9 large-scale hydropower stations have an installed capacity of 12.6 million kilowatts.

In 2011, the added capacity of grid-connected wind power was 16 million kilowatts, a cumulative total of 47 million kilowatts; the annual power generation capacity was 80 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of more than 60% year-on-year. Photovoltaic power generation grew strongly, with an installed capacity of 3 million kilowatts, more than three times the previous year.

In order to promote the adjustment of energy structure, the National Energy Administration expects that the newly-started hydropower will reach 20 million kilowatts in 2012. Hydropower has always been placed at the forefront of energy restructuring and power development, but the current environment for hydropower development is still not optimistic.

In the field of wind power development and construction, the Energy Bureau's adjustment of wind power is "proactive and orderly development of wind power," and the organization plans to implement the second batch of wind power projects with a scale of 15-18 million kilowatts during the "12th Five-Year Plan."

After undergoing a leap forward, domestic wind power has exposed a series of problems. Wei Zhaofeng pointed out that the current wind power development has a series of problems such as confusion of ideas, lack of overall planning, low level of equipment technology, and lack of rigid coastal wind power development planning.

The National Energy Work Conference’s positioning of solar energy is “proactive development” and the organization plans to implement the first batch of development plans with a scale of 3 million kilowatts during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period. Some energy experts believe that the development of solar energy in 2012 will require large-scale start-up of domestic demand, reduce dependence on foreign countries, and use of solar energy will focus on distributed and photovoltaic power generation.

Nuclear power is another unavoidable area of ​​national energy structure adjustment. Liu Tienan said: "In 2012, we will develop nuclear power on the basis of ensuring safety. We are working hard to formulate and implement the Nuclear Power Safety Plan and the Nuclear Power Medium and Long Term Development Adjustment Plan."

Natural gas is another important tool for national energy structure adjustment. According to the arrangements made by the National Energy Administration in 2012 and the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the country will vigorously promote the coordinated development of the natural gas industry, achieve rapid growth in domestic production, and vigorously develop unconventional natural gas. In 2012, the second phase of the West-East Gas Pipeline Project opened in Hong Kong and raised Hong Kong’s energy security capabilities.

According to preliminary estimates by industry insiders, the proportion of natural gas in total primary energy consumption in 2015 will reach about 8%.

The New Energy Policy will be intensive and the first year of the 12th Five-Year Plan will be the national energy planning year. A series of new energy policies will be introduced and landed during the 12th Five-Year Plan period.

Liu Tienan revealed at the meeting that 18 plans including energy science and technology, coal-bed methane, electricity, coal, oil refining, natural gas, renewable energy, shale gas, and coal deep processing demonstration were reviewed and approved by the Director of the National Energy Administration and have been or will be promulgated and implemented.

These special plans for the energy industry will become an important basis for guiding China's energy development and utilization, guiding the allocation of social resources, making major decisions, and arranging government investment.

In addition to special plans, the country will also issue a batch of coal, electricity, oil refining, coal deep processing, shale gas, natural gas, coalbed methane, and renewable energy industry policies. At the same time, it initiated the preparation of the "National Energy Development Strategy" and proposed the overall strategy and strategy map for China's energy development.

Total energy consumption control is another new measure for energy during the "12th Five-Year Plan" and in the future.

Liu Tienan said at the meeting that since the National Energy Administration took the lead in studying the establishment of the total energy consumption control system in 2011, various work has made important progress. The ideas have been unified in 31 provinces and cities, and consensus has been formed and a work plan has been initially formed. We will strive to establish a mechanism for effectively and reasonably controlling total energy consumption during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, and form a “forced mechanism” to implement the dual-control requirements of total energy consumption and intensity, and improve the quality and efficiency of economic development.

According to the reporter’s understanding, the total energy consumption control and decomposition plan is still soliciting opinions from various places.

In terms of system reform, Liu Tie-nan pointed out that the state will pay more attention to the top-level design and overall planning of the energy system reform, study and put forward reform ideas and plans, and strive to make new breakthroughs in key areas and key links. The overall idea of ​​the energy system reform is "to solve the economic and social development problems such as the contradictions between coal and power by means of reforms."