New energy 100 City New Deal: a "show" or a "revolution"
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The country will be officially launched to create 100 "new energy demonstration city", this is an empty talk, or an electric power industrial revolution attempt?
A new deal
If more than three hundred energy officials in 23 provinces, the 5 autonomous regions and 4 municipalities directly under the central government are invited training, holding a foreigner to write best-selling book "the third industrial revolution", do you think it will be because of what?
In September 4, 2012, the national energy board held a national conference that a quite rare in Yunnan, compared with the huge battle, discuss the issue has some "old" -- how to build "new energy demonstration city".
However, aspiring national energy administration does not consider the topic of old.
According to the national energy administration idea, from 2012 to September, China will be officially launched to create 100 "new energy demonstration city", to promote the local solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, biomass and other renewable energy applications to achieve large-scale application of renewable energy, the proportion in the total energy consumption in the city.
100 city scale in China has accounted for 1/6 of the total number of city. New provisions, to 2015, accepted the city new energy consumption to reach 6% of the total. This means that, if the new deal implemented, will change the energy structure of China's great city.
Over the past few years, Chinese on both sides of the Changjiang River City Based on the introduction of green energy companies, have claimed that the "new energy city". But this time, the national energy board attempted to redefine this has been "with excessive concept".
"Don't tell me how much you fan blade factory, battery assembly plant, these are not a new energy source."
Facing the station down the Energy Bureau officials from all parts of the world, says the new energy and renewable energy secretary Liang Zhipeng of vice director of National Energy Bureau, the future policy orientation is to encourage applications rather than manufacturing, the proportion of new energy demonstration city evaluation index system is the new energy in total energy consumption, has nothing to do with the manufacturing scale.
Over the past ten years, although China's green energy in the world a new force suddenly rises. ", but heavy manufacturing, light application development mode" is not on the country's green energy consumption makes a substantial contribution. Observers do not believe so, the Bureau of energy up, just to do a "not new" demonstration city?
After all, before that, the ministries and commissions similar demonstration city selection has many: Department of housing construction in the country made a "low carbon ecological demonstration city" award; the Ministry of finance is a "fiscal policy of energy-saving emission reduction comprehensive demonstration city"; the building housing the Ministry and the Ministry of finance also jointly organized "construction of renewable energy demonstration city"; the National Energy Bureau organized the "green energy demonstration counties" selection.
In many similar demonstration city award, hundreds of "new energy demonstration city" in the end?
Distributed generation: left or right?
All with a black cover about American bestseller.
"The third industrial revolution", the advocacy of "energy democracy" books are highly respected national energy bureau. Author JeremyRifkin thinks, combined with Internet technology and renewable energy, will become the core of the third industrial revolution, when people will be in the home, office and factory to produce their own green energy.
This view with the National Energy Bureau push "distributed generation" and "micro" concept agree without prior without previous consultation, become the meeting by various speakers cited the theory basis of most.
Distributed generation, is compared with the traditional centralized power supply, is the energy supply form a close to the user terminal; "microgrid" relative to the independent small grid system for large power grid. The National Energy Bureau has been a strong advocate of distributed generation and microgrid. Two are considered China to avoid new energy access bottleneck shortcuts and breaking the power monopoly of hope, also become one of the most important new energy demonstration city construction content.
To this end, the national energy board is developing in the "management measures and the detailed rules for the implementation of distributed energy" and "distributed power network management approach", and plans to build 30 micro grid pilot in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, in order to support the development of distributed energy. Not only that, in order to avoid power law "provisions of article twenty-fifth a supply area shall have only one supply agency", the national energy board also pushed the power law.
It was a national grid challenges. Opponents think, unstable microgrid will not only increase the power network, will increase the cost of power generation. State Grid an insider to the Southern Weekend reporter said, the division grid interests, lead to the loss of customers is once spread throughout the country, "everywhere be began to nibble away at the grid benefits, the power structure will undergo profound changes".
"Now some people engage in microgrid so-called, is actually using the micro grid, small power grid, power distribution network." State Grid Energy Research Institute of the smart grid research director Zhang Yibin told the Southern Weekend reporter said, the microgrid concept in China is "generalization" and misuse, generating capacity reached megawatt level should not be called microgrid.
"In that distributed, but the State Grid Corporation with the Energy Bureau of the different understanding, can first make clear the concept?" in a forum for the meeting, asked a officials in Hunan province to the national energy administration officials.
Even so, the national energy board supporters as well as a number of new energy companies have insisted, the microgrid concept is not only independent of the size of the micro grid, also is the inevitable trend of future development. Observers think, new energy demonstration city construction of the national large-scale spread out, it is with the degree because of the national energy administration tries to be distributed and Microgrid spread to the whole nation to the success or failure of more -- on local governments, but for now, it seems not optimistic.
"This is a revolution, distributed must be the direction in the future." Bureau of energy, new energy and renewable energy division director Dong Xiufen said.
The local government complex mentality
Compared with the energy bureau carry out firmly, the local government is shilly-shally -- into the performance reporting success of natural energy, but many problems caused by new energy before a few years of development so that they are upset about, they worry that a new round of the new energy city construction will produce more exciting beam hand no policy problems. They have become less active.
This time, once because of new energy rise to fame in Wuxi city is an absence of a new energy city declaration. The energy consulting company deputy general manager Xie Zhengwu is understood, Wuxi city as a new energy "manufacturing city", energy consumption is high, and is now suffering from the new energy industry bitter, not suitable for declaration. "In the past, solar energy is to Wuxi city for the light, but now it has become a nuisance, even want to write neatly." A shares of listing Corporation Hareon solar chairman Yang Huaijin headquarters in Wuxi said with emotion to the southern weekend reporter.
Compared to give up, to the applicant is also the point of view of complex. A Guangxi development and Reform Commission System officials told the Southern Weekend reporter says frankly, the application of new energy demonstration city, is the value of national subsidy funds. "This problem is more sensitive, this two days a lot of people ask me to do this have what policy, I said no policy, I know your so-called 'policy' is the money, but the Energy Bureau whatever money." Liang Zhipeng's words let the official heart cool half.
This can partly explain some local government officials in the foreign experts about foreign new energy city construction experience, why is so be absent-minded, empty seats more room.
"We've got the 'energy-saving and new energy vehicle demonstration city' and 'the construction of renewable energy demonstration city' two brands, one more sign is a minor, the key to the substantive policy." A native of Hubei development and Reform Commission officials said, they even worry that, if applied to the new energy demonstration city, after the introduction of high energy consumption and high pollution projects is it right? Is more difficult?
"Local governments should actively apply for, it is a graph or, if not, there are constraints mandatory also, rigid index like the completion of energy-saving emission reduction, but I did not see." A new energy analysts say.
Now, China's green energy has been in a hitherto unknown period of low tide. Beijing Financial Street investors in the melancholy asking "green energy it"; Jiangsu manufacturing factory workers also forced from the brush "left the dedication of clean energy" slogan of the shop, looking for a new job; advocate "clean energy to change life" returnees entrepreneurs, now also secretly diverted to do otherwise.
Not a sound business model huge deficit, be at a loss what to do and difficult to shake the power grid monopoly, let the market short-term prospects for new sources of energy are pessimistic, "China's new energy either market or policy, all came to a dead end." One of the five major power group company representatives sighed.
In such generally pessimistic market background, the national energy board can finally let the 100 national city again, to help in the promotion of distributed energy on a helping hand, has become a key test of the wisdom of the.
"Yunnan stone forest project, the policy has not yet been implemented under the bold do, dare to aggressive spirit is not necessarily a bad thing." In order to mobilize around Taiwan under the Bureau of energy, a National Energy Bureau officials such encouragement.