National Development and Reform Commission: Gas consumption will exceed 10% in 2020

With the acceleration of global climate negotiations, China's efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions are increasing.

On November 4, the National Development and Reform Commission issued a notice on the issuance of the "National Climate Change Planning (2014-2020)" (hereinafter referred to as "Planning").

"Planning" requires that by 2020, the goal of action to control greenhouse gas emissions will be fully completed. Among them, carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP decreased by 40% to 45% compared with 2005, and non-fossil energy accounted for about 15% of primary energy consumption.

According to the plan of the National Development and Reform Commission, in 2020, the proportion of natural gas consumption in primary energy consumption will reach more than 10%, and the utilization will reach 360 billion cubic meters; the installed capacity of conventional hydropower will strive to reach

to 350 million kilowatts, with an annual power generation of 1.2 trillion kwh; the total installed capacity of nuclear power reaches 58 million kilowatts; the installed capacity of grid-connected wind power reaches 200 million kilowatts; the installed capacity of solar power generation reaches 100 million kilowatts,

The installation area of solar thermal utilization reaches 800 million square meters; meanwhile, the installed capacity of biomass power generation nationwide will reach 30 million kilowatts in 2020, the annual utilization of biomass molding fuel will be 50 million tons, and the annual biogas

utilization is 44 billion cubic meters, and annual utilization of biological liquid fuel is 130 billion cubic meters. It also includes the development and utilization of geothermal and ocean energy.

It is worth noting that, under the general requirement of coal consumption accounting for the declining proportion of primary energy consumption, natural gas, as a relatively "green" energy source, is expected to be thick

Hope. At present, my country's natural gas consumption accounts for about 6% of primary energy consumption, which is only a quarter of the international average.

Jiang Kejun, a researcher at the Energy Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, said in an interview with a reporter from the Daily Economic News that in China’s energy consumption structure, natural gas has vast room for growth in the future.

Natural gas price reform is advancing. "

Jiang Kejun believes that natural gas itself is a commodity, the government should not consider subsidies, and should determine the sales price according to its actual cost.

At the China Energy Revolution Summit held in September this year, He Yongjian, Deputy Director of the Planning Department of the National Energy Administration, pointed out that the supply and demand contradiction of natural gas should be viewed dialectically.

Worries about “not enough gas”, but with the easing of natural gas supply and demand, if there is no fundamental change in the current price mechanism, the problem of natural gas in the future is not a shortage, it is likely to be surplus.