subject: Low-carbon Energy Strategy For China Should Break Through A Tough Self - Energy, The Market - Heat [print this page] Heat Pump Network HC At present, China Energy Consumption has been ranked second only to the United States. But coal as the main Energy Consumption patterns are becoming increasingly incompatible with the economic and environmental sustainability requirements. Plus Oil And other alternative energy supply is relatively insufficient, the constraints caused by China's economic development becomes more obvious, especially in today's global oil prices. These factors need to re-examine the state of China's energy strategy to ensure energy security. China's energy consumption, known reserves of the world's second from the energy perspective, China's major energy resources in the world forefront.
China's total primary energy resource reserves are estimated at 4 trillion tons of standard coal, and consumption per capita is much lower than the world average. Source: China Statistical Yearbook of global energy production and consumption from the comparison of total energy consumption in China has risen to the second home after the United States, while energy consumption growth remained at a high level. With China's "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" clearly on the energy consumption of unit GDP energy consumption by 2010, reduced by 20%, nearly two years, energy consumption growth has slowed. In contrast, in 2006 the average world growth rate of 2.4% of energy consumption, China's growth rate is far higher than the world average, up 8.4%. In recent years, the proportion of China's oil consumption increased rapidly, oil supply and dependence on international markets increased. China's current oil import dependence of about 45%, is expected to reach about 75% by 2050. In the global environment of high oil prices, China oil supply is facing increasing pressure.
China's current energy structure to the three major flaws with the developed countries, mainly fossil energy is different because the characteristics of the structure of energy supply constraints, the structure of China's energy mix, coal accounts for about 7 percent, renewable resource development and utilization of low level . Lateral international comparison, China's energy structure, a lower proportion with fossil resources. Consumption structure, reduce coal consumption ratio, although gradually, but in the next 10? 20 years in energy production and consumption in China will still dominate. The average world energy consumption structure of China's energy consumption structure of China's energy consumption with the increase and changes in consumption structure, energy issues become increasingly prominent. One of the problems: energy production can not meet the energy consumption. According to the calculations, in order to ensure that China's average annual growth rate of 7% of GDP, energy supply should be maintained around 4% annually. With the existing exploitation rate, just enough to use 44 years of oil and natural gas but also 63 years of continuous mining, with the annual energy consumption of oil increases, oil supply faces major constraints. It is predicted that China's energy gap of about 250 million tons of standard coal in 2020, 2050, approximately 460 million tons of standard coal, accounting for the gap in energy demand scale 1 / 10. Problem 2: the energy consumption structure is flawed, environmental pressures. China is the world's few coal-based countries, energy consumption patterns to deviate from the current world fuel-based oil and gas underlying trends. Most of the direct combustion of coal use in China for industrial boilers, furnaces and heating of coal, 47.3%, in the use of inefficient, also causing serious environmental pollution. Coal consumption is caused by smoke pollution in the main, is also a major source of greenhouse gas emissions to coal consumption patterns continue, will put huge pressure on the ecological environment.
Question three: China's economic growth pattern, production process, lower energy efficiency. According to WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) in November 2007 report released, China's energy efficiency is only about 33%, only about 20 years ago the level of developed countries. According to the information, if Japan's GDP energy consumption as the base 1, then the U.S. 2.7, EU 1.6, Korea 3.3 4.3 ASEAN, and China is as high as 9. The plight of China's energy strategy for the implementation of global energy strategy should be to protect the premise of long-term economic security and stability. Any country in the world, multi-channel energy is energy security and sustainable economic development of the premise. Therefore, the strengthening of international cooperation, multi-channel open up channels of energy supply (such as Russia, South America, Middle East); also active energy diplomacy on China, a big energy consumer, is indispensable. With international public opinion that the struggle for the final is likely to be rich in oil and gas resources in the 21st century the geopolitical themes, the root causes of future war that is the contention of oil. China's energy strategy needs to reserve energy, especially as the security of oil supply to the primary strategy. The composition of the global energy security system largely developed by the investigation of domestic energy supply system, foreign energy supply system, energy strategy, the three constitute a reserve system. The Chinese government on December 18, 2007 announced the establishment of national oil reserve center, marking begun to address the security system is relatively weak in the reserve system.
