/ world today news/ Electrification will play a key role in achieving China’s low-carbon development, especially in sectors such as the steel industry, construction and transportation. China’s drive towards electrification has progressed steadily over the past few years, going hand in hand with the development of new alternative sources of green energy. This will definitely play an important role in achieving the so-called “dual carbon targets”, namely peaking the country’s carbon emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.
“Electrification is an important strategy for the country that will help achieve carbon neutrality goals by significantly curbing and reducing final energy consumption through higher efficiency in many areas,” commented Gong Jincheng, a researcher at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. of Peking University.
The International Energy Agency defines the term “electrification” as the replacement of technologies or processes that use fossil fuels, such as internal combustion engines and gas boilers, with electrically powered equivalents, such as electric motors or heat pumps. In this way, greater energy efficiency is achieved, energy demand is reduced and low-carbon production is increased, bearing in mind that more and more electricity comes from green sustainable energy sources.
In the transportation sector, for example, China has pioneered the development and promotion of electric vehicles, whose increasing practical use and expansion are contributing significantly to a cleaner and more sustainable transportation system. Electrification of industrial steelmaking and the incorporation of more and more electric steelmaking furnaces could also significantly improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions of major air pollutants (primarily nitrogen dioxide) by more than 80 percent by 2060.
According to the China Electricity Council, the share of electricity in China’s overall final energy consumption is expected to exceed 30 percent by 2025. At present, this ratio is about 27 percent, which is already higher than the global average proportions. The electrification rate of the industrial and construction sectors in China is currently 26.2 and 44.9 percent, respectively. In the transport sector, this coefficient is still extremely low – only 3.9 percent. However, the country is moving forward with the electrification of transport, with more than 5.2 million units of charging stations installed in the last few years, creating the largest electric car charging network in the world.
“China will vigorously promote the replacement of coal and oil with electricity in various sectors, including industry, transportation, construction and agriculture,” said Yang Kun, deputy director of the China Electricity Council.
“China’s commitment to achieving wider electrification is not without its challenges,” commented Luo Zuoxien, head of China’s Sinopec Development Research Institute. “The transition from fossil fuels to electricity requires technological breakthroughs, investment as well as government planning. With significant potential to mitigate emissions and decarbonize energy supply chains, electrification is and will be an important strategy to achieve China’s carbon neutrality goals. As electrification is applied to more end-users of energy, the share of electricity in total end-use energy consumption will increase significantly by 2030.” Luo also commented that electricity generation should shift to renewable sources, while power grids should also to expand their capacity and flexibility to meet the growing demand for electricity.
As the world grapples with the effects of climate change and global warming, China is acting as a responsible country by placing a high priority on shifting its requirements to green energy resources. In fulfilling its responsibility, China not only makes good use of conventional and non-conventional energy resources, but also focuses on green energy. In recent years, China has also invested heavily in technology development and the construction of an increasingly large long-distance electricity transmission network. In this way, the regions with favorable conditions for green sustainable energy production can be connected to the rest of the distant regions of the country and the green electricity can be used much better.
A shared green future requires joint efforts. The world must unite, work together and achieve joint mutually beneficial results that will determine the future of humanity.
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