Renewable electricity production rises to 20% of China’s total in 2012
Date：08-27-2013 Source：DZHNews
The fourth Meeting of the 12th NPC Standing Committee held on August 27th listened to the implementation reports of China Renewable Energy Law made by law enforcement inspection group of NPC Standing Committee. According to the report, by the end of 2012, the size of renewable energy power installed capacity has taken 28 percent of the size of overall power generating installed capacity and renewable energy power generating capacity has taken 20 percent of the total power generating capacity in China.
By end-2012, China’s had installed 249 million kilowatts (kW) of hydropower capacity, 63 million kW of wind power capacity and 6.5 million kW of solar power capacity respectively. The use of shallow geothermal energy amounted to 300 million square meters while biomass energy use was equivalent to 30 million metric tons of standard coal.
Renewable energy industry has become a new growth engine for Chinese economy, the report said. In recent years, investment in renewable energy power facilities has taken up more than half of the nation’s total in new power.
Investment in renewable energy power facilities amounted to 400 billion yuan ($65.34 billion) in 2012,according to the report.
Under current renewable energy law, grid companies are obliged to fully purchase the electricity power generated from renewable energies. But the rule hasn’t been executed effectively yet.
There remain difficulties in transmission and absorption of wind, solar and hydropower, with abandonment of wind power being the worst issue. A total of 20.8 billion kilowatt-hours of wind power electricity was abandoned in 2012, accounting for about 17 percent of total power generation, the report said. Although the central government has announced the development plan for renewable energies during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), there remains no power grid development plan so far.
Transmission of plenty of renewable electricity is blocked in China as grid construction is far behind the development of renewable energies.
The report also pointed out that current subsidy policy for renewable electricity is not fit for all and should be improved, claiming that the policy will not be helpful in facilitating the large-scale application of solar power.
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