Chinese Targets for Renewable Energy Wastage Rate Difficult for Winter
Chinese Targets for Renewable Energy Wastage Rate Difficult for Winter
By Mei Manuel
on November 18, 2017
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On Tuesday, the National Energy Administration said that China's targets to "effectively alleviate" renewable power waste is unlikely to be reached despite Beijing's improvements in bolstering renewable energy consumption in the first three quarters of the year.
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In the statement, the NEA said, "Winter is typically the toughest season for power generated from wind farms and solar plants to connect to the grids. Some regions will face pressure to prevent a rebound of wind and solar waste rates."
The reason why power waste is reported throughout China's northwestern and southwestern provinces is due to the lack of transmission capacity plants that can handle renewable energy and transmit them in fast rates throughout the provinces.
Although hydro-power in the areas of Sichuan, Guangxi and Yunan have improved up to 2% during the first few months of 2017, the transmission grid cannot absorb more power that would be developed after the flood season.
The NEA also reported that the wind curtailment rate has dropped up to 6.7% from January to September and there is also a 4% decrease in solar waste rate.
The NEA also reported that the risks of high power curtailment remain high in the areas of Gansu and Xinjiang where at least 20% of the solar power and 30% of the wind power generate is wasted in the first nine months of the year. There are also high solar power waste rates in the areas of Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi and Shaanxi this year.
According to the NEA, "Local authorities and gris companies should pay high-attention to curb power waste in the renewable energy sectors", and they will continue promoting renewable energy consumption by encouraging heating companies to trade power generators.
China intends to eliminate 44,000 coal-fired industrial boilers and switch households to natural gas or electric heating in order to improve air quality rates in the country.
The NEA is also working on boosting cross-region power transmission and power trade by improving the transmission facilities from Xinjiang to Henan, Ningxia to Zhejiang and Gansu to Hunan.
On Monday, the agency also said that China aims to stop all renewable energy wastage by 2020 as part of its government targets.
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