This year is the first year for the full implementation of the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress. The deployment made in the government work report on the energy and power industry has set priorities and goals for the development of the energy and power industry in the new year.
The beginning is related to the overall situation. How can we take the first step in the first year? Focusing on the content of the government work report, deputies and members actively put forward suggestions and discuss how energy and electricity can ensure power supply, promote transformation, stabilize the economy and benefit people’s livelihood.
Stability – ensuring safe and reliable power supply and building a solid energy foundation for high-quality development
Free trade pilot zones are booming, coastal areas are actively innovating, central and western regions are developing rapidly, and the revitalization of the Northeast is accelerating… Looking across China, consumer demand, market circulation, industrial production, and corporate expectations have clearly improved, economic growth has stabilized and improved, and my country’s economy has huge potential and development momentum.
The report of the 20th CPC National Congress proposed that “high-quality development is the primary task of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way”, and called for the organic combination of implementing the strategy of expanding domestic demand and deepening supply-side structural reform. Previously, People’s Daily Online selected the top ten hot words of this year’s National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and “expanding domestic demand and promoting consumption” was selected. Among those who participated in the vote, 45.9% expressed the hope to strengthen infrastructure construction and increase infrastructure investment.
Among the key tasks deployed in this year’s government work report, the first is to focus on expanding domestic demand, emphasizing “giving priority to restoring and expanding consumption” and “accelerating the implementation of major projects in the 14th Five-Year Plan”. All regions are also actively deploying to expand effective investment, focusing on transportation, energy, water conservancy, new infrastructure and other fields, and planning a number of major projects and major projects.
“Each link of electricity generation, supply and use involves the government, enterprises and all aspects of society, and is of great significance to stabilizing the overall economy.” said Lin Xiaoming, deputy to the National People’s Congress, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee and director of the Management Committee of Suzhou Industrial Park.
As an important infrastructure, the power grid can not only stabilize the economy and play a role in driving investment, but also consolidate the foundation and better meet the electricity needs of high-quality development. In the new year, economic recovery will bring about an increase in electricity demand, and the responsibility of ensuring power supply, safety and stability will be even greater.
Shanxi has focused on building a national comprehensive reform pilot zone for resource-based economic transformation and carrying out comprehensive reform pilots for energy revolution, and has accelerated the development of new energy since the 13th Five-Year Plan. Wang Zhengtao, deputy to the National People’s Congress and chairman and party secretary of State Grid Shanxi Electric Power Company, suggested improving the price transmission mechanism for coal and coal-fired power, promoting the optimized combination of coal-fired power and new energy, and adding a number of new coal-fired power projects to meet the medium- and long-term supply needs.
To expand domestic demand and develop the economy, we must give full play to the key role of investment in optimizing supply and driving economic growth, and we must also focus on the demand side and continue to promote consumption growth. Data shows that in 2022, my country’s new energy vehicle sales increased by 93.4% year-on-year.
The emergence of new forms and models on the consumer side has put forward higher requirements for the safe and stable operation of the power system. Liu Jingyu, deputy to the National People’s Congress and chairman of China New Aviation Technology Group Co., Ltd., focuses on the development of new energy industry and power battery technology. She believes that the new energy vehicle industry will become one of the largest pillar industries in my country’s manufacturing industry. State Grid Corporation of China continues to optimize the layout of the charging network, improve the access process of charging facilities, and create application scenarios such as vehicle-grid interaction. It is a service guarantor, active participant, and strong promoter of the development of the new energy vehicle industry.
Expanding domestic demand and ensuring supply are not only the deployment at the national level, but also the voice of the deputies and members, and the positive actions of the energy and power industry. At present, a number of major power grid projects are being carried out in an orderly manner across mountains and ridges; power grid companies provide high-quality services for the connection and consumption of new energy power generation; dams are built in the mountains, and the construction site of pumped storage projects is in full swing… State Grid Corporation of China coordinates development and safety, and coordinates supply and transformation, to fully meet the electricity needs of high-quality economic and social development, charge for a better life, and empower a beautiful China.
Green – Accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system and promote clean and low-carbon energy transformation
“Coordinate the safe and stable supply of energy and green and low-carbon development, and promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality in a scientific and orderly manner”, “Optimize the energy structure, achieve ultra-low emission coal-fired power units exceeding 1.05 billion kilowatts, and increase the installed capacity of renewable energy from 650 million kilowatts to more than 1.2 billion kilowatts. The proportion of clean energy consumption has increased from 20.8% to more than 25%”… In the past five years, my country has continued to promote green and low-carbon development.
After the opening meeting of the first session of the 14th National People’s Congress, Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu introduced in the first “Minister’s Channel” that my country is the country with the fastest improvement in air quality, the largest scale of renewable energy utilization, and the largest growth in forest resources in the world.
Regarding the main expected development goals for this year, the Government Work Report proposes that energy consumption per unit of GDP and emissions of major pollutants will continue to decline, with a focus on controlling fossil energy consumption and steadily improving the quality of the ecological environment.
Promote the green transformation of development mode, advance the clean and efficient use of coal and technological research and development, accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system… Representatives and deputies held heated discussions on the deployment of green and low-carbon development in the Government Work Report.
Coal-fired power has always played an important role in ensuring a safe and stable supply of electricity. Song Hailiang, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Chairman and Party Secretary of China Energy Engineering Group Co., Ltd., proposed to accelerate the construction of green new coal-fired power and support the implementation of the “dual carbon” strategy, saying that in order to explore and innovate green new coal-fired power, we should make overall planning and layout of coal-fired power, improve the long-term market mechanism for the healthy development of coal-fired power, and promote the innovation of coal-fired power-related technical systems and design standards in combination with the transformation of coal-fired power positioning.
Zhang Xingying, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of the Science and Climate Change Department of the China Meteorological Administration, brought a proposal on accelerating energy transformation and promoting the effective implementation of the “dual carbon” goals. In terms of accelerating the construction of a new power system, he suggested making full use of the temporal and spatial complementarity of renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and hydropower to minimize their intermittency and volatility, and improve the friendliness of renewable energy and grid connection; giving full play to the role of the large power grid as a resource optimization and allocation platform, strengthening the overall coordination of cross-provincial and cross-regional power operations, and achieving mutual assistance between surplus and shortage of power.
Energy storage is an important technology and foundation for building a new power system and promoting clean and low-carbon energy transformation, and is an important support for achieving the “dual carbon” goal. Zhong Zheng, deputy to the National People’s Congress, vice president and chief financial officer of Midea Group, proposed suggestions on the emerging energy storage industry. She said that my country’s new energy storage industry has broad development prospects, and suggested establishing a new energy storage sharing traditional pumped storage capacity electricity fee mechanism, while exploring the profit model of energy storage auxiliary services.
The power grid connects electricity production and consumption and is an important platform for the conversion, utilization and optimal allocation of various energy sources. To further serve the development of new energy and promote the green transformation of energy, power grid companies not only have good basic conditions, but also will have more exploration and practice.
At present, the State Grid has become the world’s largest power grid with the strongest transmission capacity and the largest scale of new energy grid connection. The installed capacity of wind power, solar power and other new energy power generation in the operating area ranks first in the world. This year, the company will accelerate the upgrade of the power grid to the energy Internet, promote the construction of a new power system, strive to be the promoter, forerunner and leader of the clean and low-carbon energy transformation, and better assist the planning and construction of the new energy system.
New——Deeply implement the innovation-driven development strategy and strengthen key core technology research
High-quality development must have both green and technological content. my country’s ranking in the Global Innovation Index has risen from 34th in 2012 to 11th in 2022, successfully entering the ranks of innovative countries, and opening a new stage of achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and building a strong country in science and technology.
In an interview with the media at the first “Minister’s Channel”, Wang Zhigang, Minister of Science and Technology, said that enterprises are not only the main body of technological innovation and must solve technological problems, but they are also the main body of scientific research. They must play a leading role in proposing new methods, forming new scientific research paradigms, researching new fields, explaining new phenomena, and how these results are transformed into technology and high-tech industries at all stages.
“State Grid Corporation of China has established a new power system technology innovation alliance to focus on the forward-looking technical challenges faced in building a new power system with all sectors of society and carry out joint research, which will play a leading role in creating an original technology source and promoting clean and low-carbon energy transformation.” Wang Liping, deputy to the National People’s Congress and deputy director (in charge of work) of the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that in order to further open up the chain of production, education, research and application, cooperation should be strengthened in the joint training of talents, and basic research and field application should be promoted to promote each other, forming a good cooperative environment for the co-construction and sharing of advantageous resources and joint research and development in key areas, and promoting the deep integration of industry, education and research.
From strengthening basic research to advancing key core technology research, from strengthening the leading role of enterprises in innovation to improving the level of innovation management, many representatives and deputies discussed how to take the “first move” in scientific and technological innovation and promote the strengthening of science and technology and talents for enterprises.
Zhang Tianren, deputy to the National People’s Congress and chairman of Tianneng Holding Group Co., Ltd., said in an interview with the media that there is still a clear gap between my country’s current energy science and technology innovation and the requirements for building a world energy science and technology power. The government should increase its support for leading science and technology companies, give full play to the role of enterprises as innovation subjects, and support leading science and technology companies to take the lead in establishing innovation consortia aimed at tackling key core technologies.
To achieve the “dual carbon” goal, both advanced technology and advanced management are needed. Wang Zhiwei, deputy to the National People’s Congress, chairman and party secretary of State Grid Jilin Electric Power Co., Ltd., believes that accelerating the planning and construction of a new energy system will inevitably give rise to a large number of new formats and models, and the management concepts, management models and management processes of power companies will inevitably be reshaped. He suggested building an industry management innovation results exchange and sharing platform and a high-end management innovation think tank team to provide strong intellectual support for the healthy and orderly development of my country’s energy and electricity.
Strengthen the foundation, stabilize the economy, promote transformation, plan for the future, grasp innovation, and increase stamina… In 2023, the energy and power industry will unswervingly follow the path of ecological priority, green and low-carbon development, accumulate new momentum and inject new vitality for the high-quality development of the economy and society. (Source: State Grid News)