Qian Zhimin: The potential for solar wind energy development is still great

Qian Zhimin, deputy director of the National Energy Administration of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said yesterday that the blind expansion of solar wind power and other industries is mainly reflected in the low level expansion of the equipment industry, but it is easy to be misunderstood as whether the development of solar energy wind power is too fast and it is necessary to slow down. The relationship between the two should be clarified.

Qian Zhimin said that solar energy is a new energy source, and there is still great potential for development from both international and domestic perspectives. Domestically, to achieve the goal of non-fossil energy accounting for 15% of primary energy consumption by 2020, the target of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP will fall by 40% to 45% from 2005, and new energy will play a major role.

“It was originally expected that nuclear power will break through in 2020. Therefore, China’s nuclear power has developed rapidly. In the year of 2010, 10 units were approved. However, after the Fukushima incident in Japan, the nuclear power industry fell into a trough.” Qian Zhimin explained that 20 million A kilowatt nuclear power plant is equivalent to a wind power level of 80 to 100 million kilowatts.

In addition, the percentage of non-fossil energy as a percentage of total energy resources did not increase in 2011, mainly because hydropower encountered rare dry years, so there is still much room for development of wind energy and solar energy in the future. For distributed power, which has a large proportion in Europe and the United States, he pointed out that if there is a legal supporting policy in the future, it may develop greatly.