China cannot decide whether to curtail coal energy or to follow the path of its development for the time being

In recent years, China has been taking systematic steps to increase advanced coal production to ensure adequate power supply during peak times and extreme weather, aiming for coal to play a more important role as an emergency backup power source as the country is on track to peak emissions. carbon. This was stated by Lin Boqiang, head of the China Energy Policy Research Institute at Xiamen University. At the same time, China believes that coal-based thermal power generation should still be abandoned.

Since many of the country's small coal-fired power plants built in the last century have become obsolete and very energy intensive, it is necessary to replace them with units with a higher level of safety and efficiency. However, the withdrawal process must also be prioritized. If the local heat and electricity supply cannot meet the demand for some time, then it should be postponed for some time.

Lin said.

The government has said it will continue to strengthen the main supporting role of coal and will take steps to increase advanced coal production while working to accelerate the development of new energy systems to support the country's transition to green production.

That is, in China, they themselves cannot yet decide: whether to start curtailing coal energy or still develop it, making electricity affordable.

In 2023, the increase in capacity at coal-fired power plants will not be the largest increase in capacity in China, as this year will also see a significant increase in solar and wind power capacity.

said Luo Zuoxian, head of intelligence and research at Sinopec Economics and Development Research Institute.

The latest government report, released over the course of two sessions, highlights that coal continued to play its role as China's main source of energy last year.

The report said that in order to further support the electricity and heat supply enterprises in order to ensure a reliable energy supply, advanced coal facilities were introduced.

Comments

[vadimtt]

The Chinese, for any reason, need to tie up with coal energy. It's dirty nonetheless. So if there is a lot of cheap gas, then coal is not needed.
In addition, if you look at the program for the development of nuclear energy, then by 2050 China will have a sea of ​​\uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbelectricity, coal can be shut down painlessly.

[Blackmokona]

Quote: vadimtt

The Chinese, for any reason, need to tie up with coal energy. It's dirty nonetheless. So if there is a lot of cheap gas, then coal is not needed.
In addition, if you look at the program for the development of nuclear energy, then by 2050 China will have a sea of ​​\uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbelectricity, coal can be shut down painlessly.

But China does not want to sit down on a gas needle, so gas is not an option for it. In general, Atom and the massive SPP and WPP projects should solve all its problems with electricity.

[Aristarkh Pasechnik]

But yes, especially in the south of SES and WES! There's nowhere to put your foot But in inner Mongolia, yes, there is sun and wind! So again, there are very few people there! And for a long time they have been hanging panels on every yurt ...

[Blackmokona]

Quote: Aristarkh Pasechnik

But yes, especially in the south of SES and WES! There's nowhere to put your foot But in inner Mongolia, yes, there is sun and wind! So again, there are very few people there! And for a long time they have been hanging panels on every yurt ...

China ranks first in the world by a wide margin in electricity generation from solar and wind farms

[Quote Lavrov]

1. + Expenses for re-profiling the energy sector from coal to gas.
2. + Coking coals that cannot be replaced by gas
3. The expert directly says that the PRC sees an AUXILIARY source of energy in coal, but in the article on VO this does not seem to be noticed
4. Solar and wind energy are environmentally friendly only in name, but if we collect the impact on the manufacture and disposal of batteries, solar panels, etc., then the question is which will be more harmful. It’s just that now it’s a very fashionable and expensive agenda, and no one bothered to assess the real harm.
5. Do not forget that coal energy is also jobs, and no matter how they say that we will retrain, we will give new jobs - this is not so. It is enough to look at the experience of Great Britain or Poland.

Therefore, just to put it this way - we are building an atom, windmills and closing down an entire industry - a too superficial decision that does not take into account a lot of factors.

[aars]

Quote: Quote Lavrov

Solar and wind energy are environmentally friendly only in name, but if we collect the impact on the manufacture and disposal of batteries, solar panels, etc., then the question is which will be more harmful.

And the equipment of coal-fired power plants in the same way needs to be made, starting with a non-environmental blast furnace ...
Exactly the same
And you also need to recycle.
And it is also necessary to dispose of multimillion-ton volumes of coal slag, which for some reason is never taken into account ...
The balance is clearly not in favor of coal.

[vadimtt]

5. From the coal energy industry, jobs are perfectly moving to nuclear power plants (Chemists, turbinists, specialists in boiler and pipe equipment, electricians. Except that stokers are not needed. Although they are not there as such, operators are instead of them. And operators also perfectly move ). This just did not happen in large numbers either in Britain or in Poland.

[shikin]

Coal does not need to be burned. Recently, the share of coal processing has increased and processing methods have been improved. The result is, in addition to a mixture of gases for energy, a lot of different raw materials for chemical plants. The issues of coal use are more economic than technical, and the economy depends on the development of processing technologies.

[Damask]

Not everything is so simple, they refuse gas will rise in price

[Buyan]

Conservation pocket does not pull, if anything - you can quickly deploy

[Zaurbek]

China is one of the few countries that have serial CHPPs on new generation coal (with elevated temperatures and cleaning, etc.). Russia is not one of these countries

[Neverhood]

Exactly. As the carrier temperature rises, the efficiency increases. So for coal, it looms just a good reduction in emissions while maintaining generation.
Such an approach would be logical.
1) if you plan to commission new capacities, then either an atom or a gas. as the least dirty.
2) in parallel to modernize the existing coal-fired CHP plants.

Civilization and technological progress require a constant growth of energy. Refusing any of your own energy capabilities is actually artificially slowing down your own progress. And in this context, if the traditional green agenda still has the right to life, then the story of reducing the carbon footprint and co² emissions is already a deterrent in its purest form.

[dmi.pris1]

Coal-fired power plants can be developed using new combustion and purification technologies at a specific high power. There is no point in developing medium and small ones.

[I dare to_notice_]

Well, a wise person won't "wind down" what works until they have a real alternative to "wind down".
Although... What am I talking about?
Human stupidity has always won.
Who doesn't believe? Ask Greta! )

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

You can't change everything abruptly. It takes thoughtfulness and wisdom.

[rotmistr60]

China can't decide...

As the party says, so be it.

[Roma 1977]

Here we must understand that China has not so much quality cheap coal left. In general, there is a lot of coal, but over time, the cost of its production will greatly increase. This is where the dilemma comes in. Primary energy should be as cheap as possible, and there is an opinion that coal will lose competition to other energy carriers in the future.

[cosmonaut]

I read the comments. The vast majority of people do not understand what the coal industry is. Although Comrade Luo Jiauxian does not talk about immediate closure, on the contrary, he promises an increase in advanced production. But we heard all this at home, before they closed it, and the authorities lined their pockets sold everything for scrap.
come on, Chinese brothers, close your mines. fill your aces' pockets with dough. yes, gas does not produce sulfur oxide. power plants, so that there are fewer harmful substances
mothball ... well, a month, well, for a year. well, for 5. the longer, the more expensive it is to restore. as a result, it’s cheaper to build a new one, and if it’s even longer, it will be cheaper to bring it from Mars.
if you close the mines, then it’s almost forever closed, and forget about coal. To restore the coal industry, you need not a year, not two, not ten years, but decades. And whether it will be this time is a question. .institutes, technical schools, research institutes, qualified experienced workers under the ass behind the gate. let them plow for a penny as dog hairdressers, loaders, dig holes with a shovel, trade mugs in a shopping center as a guard. .here they wrote they say they easily move to nuclear power plants. did you collapse from an oak tree there? sounds like a gynecologist. it won’t do that. Even under the USSR, they wouldn’t go for this. It’s easier to train a new and young worker.
building a coal industry is not easy to build a mine. It’s a LOT of mines to build. Building is also not everything. Just like a young specialist is gaining experience, a mine is also gaining experience, so to speak. There is always some kind of nervousness at a new mine, all the time there is a constant mess .the result is not entirely efficient work. for the mine to become a well-coordinated mechanism, it also takes time. further. mines need equipment, repairs. this also needs to build factories. these are also qualified specialists, hence the new system and technical schools, and institutes, research institutes. experience is also needed, by the way ... that you don’t need to list everything, you don’t even understand everything right away. railways, and imagine even roads need to be built. cars, car depots, environmental services. it’s not just buy and sell ...
tales about wind and solar energy are fairy tales for fools. it’s better to give a billion Chinese a billion bicycle dynamos, and let them spin it) it’s funny like solar energy. they don’t talk much. Yes, and with ecology, not everything is unambiguous at nuclear power plants. Whoever says anything about clean nuclear energy, not only we can work through the anus. Americans, Japanese, French, British, Canadians are no worse at it. I don’t think that the Chinese than that is different from all

[the same doctor]

If China begins to systematically reduce exports, concentrating only on meeting the needs of its population, then it will be possible to abandon coal as well. In the meantime, the world has dumped its production in China - how can they increase volumes without coal?
In principle, in China, all those who advocate the abandonment of coal can be safely shot as agents of the West.