Great potential, accelerating! Promote the integrated development of new energy and transportation in multiple regions
Accelerate the integration and development of transportation and new energy in multiple regions
According to data from the Ministry of Transport, the transportation industry currently accounts for approximately 17% of China's energy consumption structure, while green electricity accounts for a relatively small proportion in the transportation industry's energy consumption structure, indicating enormous potential for the development of green energy. Various regions are accelerating the integration and development of the transportation industry with green and renewable energy.
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The first dual energy storage self consistent photovoltaic power supply system for highways in Xinjiang has been officially connected to the grid and put into trial operation in the Kela Meili service area of the Amu Expressway. The system is equipped with two sets of energy storage demonstration systems that adapt to the complex operating climate environment of the desert for technical interconnection. When the power on one side of the service area is insufficient, the battery packs on the other side can complement each other to ensure that important facilities in the service area do not lose power. The system can generate 710000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually, which is equivalent to saving 285 tons of standard coal annually. In Jinxiang County, Shandong Province, China's first comprehensive road energy integration project, the Jinxiang section of the Shandong Zaohe Expressway Energy Integration Demonstration Project, has generated over 5 million kilowatt hours of electricity since being connected to the grid for more than 100 days, equivalent to a reduction of 4150 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Since the beginning of this year, many regions have accelerated the integration of new energy and transportation development. Shanghai has clearly proposed to ensure that the newly added photovoltaic installed capacity in the transportation sector of the city reaches 120MW by 2025, striving to reach 180MW. The installed photovoltaic area on the roofs of newly built transportation facilities should not be less than 50%. Jiangsu proposes to complete 10 regional green transportation demonstration counties and 40 green transportation themed projects by 2025. Shandong Province's development of civilization requires accelerating the construction of green transportation infrastructure, promoting the construction of green roads, green railways, green ports, and green airports, and promoting the integrated development of transportation and energy networks.
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Xu Honglei, Vice President of the Planning and Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport: Many provinces, regions, and cities in China have already launched pilot projects for the integration of transportation and energy. We promote the deep integration of transportation and energy, which is conducive to meeting the needs of green transportation infrastructure construction and clean substitution of energy for new energy vehicles. This can achieve coordinated emission reduction of greenhouse gases and pollutants in the transportation and energy industries.
Transportation infrastructure has enormous potential to support clean energy development
China has the world's largest high-speed railway and highway network, as well as numerous transportation infrastructure such as airports and ports, which have enormous potential to support the development of clean energy.
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Liu Shiyu, Vice President of the Electric Power Planning and Design Institute, said that the integration of transportation and energy is an important direction for promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of energy. Transportation infrastructure has enormous potential to support the development of clean energy, especially in provinces in central and eastern China where land resources are relatively scarce.
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At present, China mainly relies on highway engineering as the main carrier, relying on idle land resources such as roadside slopes, hub interchanges, and abandoned soil borrow areas in service areas, to build clean energy supply facilities such as wind power, photovoltaics, energy storage, charging and swapping stations, and hydrogen refueling stations, providing a certain scale of green energy for highway engineering construction, passenger and freight transportation activities, etc.
Xu Honglei, Vice President of the Planning and Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport: With the construction of smart transportation in our country and the rapid development of new energy vehicles, the energy demand for transportation is actually growing rapidly. The integration of transportation and energy can drive the transportation industry from a traditional and simple energy consumer to an energy producer and seller, providing a very feasible path for us to achieve terminal electrification of transportation and decarbonization of electricity.
The integration of transportation and energy in China is in its early stages
Although the transportation industry and renewable energy have broad integration development space, experts also indicate that the two major industries of transportation and energy are deeply integrated and are still in the early stages of development. The top-level design, policy standards, and institutional mechanisms still need further improvement.
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At present, the integration of transportation and energy in China is in its early stages, lacking effective inter ministerial communication and coordination mechanisms, and related development policies, institutional mechanisms, and construction standards are not yet sound. As an emerging field, the management responsibilities of relevant departments in transportation and energy integration are not yet clear, and the investment and financing mechanisms and business models also urgently need to be improved.
Experts say that the planning and construction of transportation infrastructure should fully consider the current and future demand for energy transportation and the evolution of spatial patterns, fully ensuring the security of China's energy system's industrial and supply chains. In response to the overall requirements of China's low-carbon energy transformation, we will accelerate the adjustment of transportation structure, actively adapt to the new trend and demand of the significant increase in the proportion of clean energy and new energy.
Xu Honglei, Vice President of the Planning and Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport: The next step is to coordinate the infrastructure layout of the transportation and energy industries. Through moderate advancement and scientific planning, we will accelerate the coordinated connection, joint construction and sharing of the transportation and energy networks, and accelerate the green and low-carbon transformation of the transportation development mode.