CEC: "Twelfth Five Year Plan" Should Control Wind Speed

On November 30, the CEC issued a report stating that during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, China’s electricity development will mainly rely on hydropower and nuclear power, and at the same time, it should appropriately control the construction pace of new energy sources such as wind power and solar energy.

An insider of the China Electric Power Association told this newspaper that the report prepared by the Working Group on the Planning and Research of the China Electricity Council will serve as the main basis for China's "12th Five-Year Plan" for the development of the electric power industry, with a high degree of authority. This is also the first time the relevant planning agencies have to control the speed of wind power.

Ouyang Changyu, deputy secretary-general of the China United Electric Power Association, said that the current generation of wind, solar, and biomass energy costs are much higher than coal, nuclear, and hydropower. The “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” should properly control the rhythm, with the focus on the northwest, northern North China, and northeast China. area.

He proposed to ensure that China's wind power reaches the world's leading level by 2020, so that wind power generation costs and prices have a greater decline, laying the foundation for a larger-scale development after 2020. Therefore, CEC suggested that the installed capacity of wind power in China in 2015 and 2020 be 100 million kilowatts and 180 million kilowatts, respectively.

Despite the appropriate control, the reporter found that the planned installed capacity of wind power is still showing an expanding trend. The CEC's proposed wind power installation target has already exceeded the wind power construction plan put forward by the National Energy Administration in the first half of this year.

Previously, the National Energy Administration planed to install 90 million kilowatts of wind power in 2015 and 150 million kilowatts in 2020.

Solar energy and wind power also face high costs. Wang Minhao, deputy general manager of China Hydropower Engineering Consulting Group, said that the main obstacle to the development of solar power is the high cost. According to the report of the CEC, during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, China’s solar power generation will still be based on demonstration projects.

Established large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic power station demonstration projects in Dunhuang, Gansu, Qinghai, Qaidam Basin, Lhasa, Xinjiang or (Ali); selected deserted land, Gobi, wasteland, and other idle land to build solar thermal power generation projects in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang; . In 2015, the planned capacity for solar power generation will be about 2 million kilowatts, and in 2020 it will reach 20 million kilowatts.

From the perspective of cost and environmental protection, CEC put forward the basic policy of accelerating green power generation in the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” should be: Give priority to the development of hydropower, optimize the development of coal-fired power, vigorously develop nuclear power, actively promote new energy generation, and moderately develop natural gas concentration. Power generation and local conditions should be adopted to develop distributed energy.

Regarding the hydropower development targets during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, Ouyang Changyu stated that it has formed a consensus in China that hydropower installed capacity will reach 284 million kilowatts in 2015 and 330 million kilowatts in 2020. The pumped-storage development target will reach 40 million kilowatts by 2015 and 60 million kilowatts by 2020.

The report pointed out that during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, China will continue to accelerate the development of seven hydropower bases in the upper reaches of the Changjiang River, Wujiang River, Nanpanjiang Hongshui River, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and the North Mainstream, Xiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi. The CEC suggested that the above seven hydropower bases should be developed as soon as possible, and strive to be basically completed by 2015.

Wang Jianping, general manager of China Electric Power Engineering Consulting Group, pointed out that the "12th Five-Year Plan" period needs to be started at about 100 million kilowatts, so that the hydropower capacity will reach 350 million kilowatts by 2020. According to the current progress of hydropower development, it is not optimistic and needs to increase hydropower preparatory work. The intensity.