Â
>>REAL-TIME UPDATES IN THE WIRE. CLICK HERE<<<
Â
Â
China will step up efforts to develop clean and low-carbon power equipment in 10 fields including thermal power, hydropower, nuclear power and wind power in a bid to improve the country’s power equipment supply structure in the next five to eight years, according to a plan released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and four other government departments on Monday.
China will promote energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of coal power equipment, accelerate the development and application of variable-speed and offshore pumped storage equipment as well as the fourth generation of nuclear power equipment, according to the plan.
China is also eyeing the research and development of new energy generation equipment, promoting integration with wind and photovoltaic energy and accelerating the research and application of equipment for developing ocean energy and geothermal energy, showed the plan.
According to the plan, in the next five to eight years, the supply of renewable energy power generation continues to improve, with wind and solar power generation equipment meeting the demand for installed capacity of over 1.2 billion kilowatts, and nuclear power equipment meeting demand for installed capacity of of 70 million kilowatts, according to the plan.
Li Chuangjun, director general of the Department of New Energy and Renewable Energy Sources of the National Energy Administration (NEA), said during a carbon neutrality forum held on Saturday that the construction of wind and photovoltaic power plants in northwestern desert regions will be the priority of China’s carbon emissions reduction during the 14th Five-year Plan period 2021-25.
The construction of the first group of renewable power plants with capacity of 100 million kilowatt-hours has begun, said Li, noting that the electricity volume generated by renewable power sources will reach 3.3 trillion kilowatt-hours by 2025.