Future energy demand will be fragmented. Power companies will become integrated energy service providers

After more than ten years of development, my country's new energy industry has been at the forefront of the world. "At present, my country's photovoltaic and wind power generation accounts for half of the world's power generation, and the proportion of non-fossil energy such as nuclear power and hydropower has also greatly increased." On October 20, the China Electricity Council, China Energy Research Association, At the "2018 Smart Energy Development Summit Forum" co-sponsored by China Energy News and hosted by GCL (Group) Holdings Co., Ltd., Wang Zhixuan, full-time vice chairman of the China Electricity Council and chairman of the Electric Vehicle and Energy Storage Branch, said.

Participants at the meeting believed that while seeing the achievements, they should also be soberly aware of the challenges facing the development of the energy industry. According to Zhou Dadi, executive vice chairman of the China Energy Research Association, the latest research report shows that if the current energy development model does not change, even if the emission reduction commitments made by countries under the framework of the Paris Agreement can be achieved, the global average temperature will continue. Rising, threatening the security of the planet, the world must significantly accelerate the process of low-carbon energy.

Zhu Gongshan, chairman of GCL Group, said that wind power and solar power generation will enter the era of parity grid access at the same time in 2019, and the reduction of subsidies will have a huge impact on future energy development. In addition, the accelerated integration of the new energy vehicle ecosystem, the transformation of the energy market from fixed energy to mobile energy, and the increasing demand for fragmented energy... will all bring new issues.

At present, the three major contradictions between energy supply and social demand, between energy supply and environmental governance, and between human modern lifestyle and energy conservation and emission reduction are giving birth to an unprecedented energy revolution. my country’s energy development The way will usher in a fundamental change.

“In the past 10 years, the comprehensive cost of wind power has been reduced by 70%, and the cost of photovoltaic power generation has been reduced by 80%. In 2017, photovoltaic power surpassed coal power and nuclear power for the first time, becoming the world’s largest new power generation variety. Years ago was unimaginable.” Yang Lei, senior adviser to the Director of the International Energy Agency, said that with technological progress, energy production, supply, and consumption have shown new characteristics. The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2030, photovoltaics will gradually become the cheapest way to generate electricity.

Yang Lei said that the growth rate of industrial power demand is slowing down, and two-thirds of the future increase in power demand will come from the consumer sector. In addition, the number of electric vehicles in China last year exceeded 1 million. As an energy storage device, electric vehicles will also have an important impact on power demand and peak shaving. All these have led to increasingly fragmented energy demand and use.

At the same time, this change has increased the demand for distributed energy, and the role of microgrids has become important. "Microgrid has the characteristics of energy decentralization, load decentralization, and nearby power consumption. It will supplement and replace large power grids to achieve remote power supply." said Tang Xuewen, director of the New Energy Division of Jiangsu Energy Bureau. Microgrids are providing reliability and safety. Electricity, as well as solving power supply problems in remote areas and islands, is playing an increasingly important role; and in line with the direction of electricity reform, it can expand huge consumption and development space for new energy.

In the foreseeable future, with the advancement of distributed renewable energy and energy storage microgrid technology, as well as the continuous reduction of costs and the emergence of new loads, combined with the reform of the electricity sales side, microgrids will occupy more and more market shares.

This change will also promote the transformation of power companies from pure power supply to integrated energy service providers such as heating and cooling. Enterprises need to change their thinking, accelerate supply-side structural reforms, and provide users with efficient energy services in the best way and the most economical combination.

"The traditional era of single power generation and single transmission is gone forever." Fei Zhi, president of GCL Smart Energy Co., Ltd., said that GCL has fully opened the era of "Internet + Smart Energy". During the forum, GCL officially released the "Xineng Cloud" system. At present, GCL has started from the four levels of cities, parks, villages, and homes, creating architectural microgrids, public microgrids, industrial microgrids, data microgrids, regional microgrids, rural microgrids, home microgrids, and mobile microgrids. Eight types of micro-energy grid models have been implemented, and a number of typical demonstration projects have been implemented. (Reporter Qi Hui)

This article is transferred from China Coal News Network

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