Li Longxing: China will focus on nuclear power in the next 5 years to reduce carbon emissions
Source: Jingchu Networks Date: 2015-12-14
Jingchu.com News On December 12, the International Symposium on "Global Governance and National Responsibility" was held in Wuhan. Li Longxing, former Deputy Secretary-General of the China National Committee of the World Energy Council, proposed in the "Global Environment and Resource Governance" sub-forum The five-year plan has clearly called for reducing coal consumption, and the state will focus on nuclear power.
"From now to 2020, China will develop into the world's largest energy consumer", Li Longxing said in a keynote speech entitled "Energy Development and the Environment" that the haze now appears to be directly related to excessive coal Therefore, it is incumbent on the world to reduce carbon emissions and pollution. By 2035, the world's energy industry will produce two-thirds of global greenhouse gases, and energy is still the key to global climate problems. Due to the strengthening of the greenhouse effect caused by energy development and utilization, global carbon emissions will rise by 20%, and the temperature will rise by 3.6 degrees compared to before the industrial revolution.
Li Longxing pointed out that reducing emissions and optimizing the energy structure, the focus is on controlling the total proportion of coal in energy consumption, and China's five-year plan has explicitly requested to reduce coal consumption. It is expected that by 2035, the proportion of Chinese coal consumption in energy will be reduced from 2011 68% of the year, reduced to 33%. In the next five years, China will focus on developing nuclear power.
"The development of new energy sources must first adjust the interest structure. This is a very important thing. The development of technology must account for the interest structure. If there is no account, there will be a lot of trouble." Li Longxing said, for example. For example, after the completion of Dalian Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Station, it will generate 6.6 million kilowatts of electricity. After all six nuclear power reactors are built, the electricity generated per day is equivalent to the electricity generated by coal from 22 trains to 25 trains. However, the generation of new energy will also create new problems. Li Longxing said that after the completion of the nuclear power plant, the workers who produced coal power will be laid off, and more than a dozen coal power plants will be closed. The employment of these people will become a new problem.