Li Yining: Global Energy Internet will accelerate the world's energy transformation

China Energy Storage Network News : On the morning of the 30th, the 2016 Global Energy Internet Conference opened in Beijing. Li Yining, a professor at Peking University, said in his keynote speech at the conference that the Global Energy Internet is an important platform to accelerate the transformation of the world's energy revolution, and accelerating the transformation of energy revolution is the most urgent task for mankind.

Li Yining pointed out that in order to fundamentally solve the three major problems of increasing resource shortage, increasing environmental pollution and global warming, it is necessary to change the economic development mode and cultivate a low-carbon economy with the characteristics of low energy consumption, low pollution and low emissions. Low-carbon development has become a development path that must be chosen, and the understanding in this regard is becoming more and more in-depth and the consensus is growing.

He believes that the Global Energy Internet provides a practical and systematic solution for developing a low-carbon economy and achieving energy transformation. To ease the pressure of global carbon emission reduction and achieve low-carbon development, it is necessary to reduce fossil energy consumption while accelerating the development of clean energy to fill the gap. In this regard, the Global Energy Internet has great potential.

Li Yining said: "The Global Energy Internet is a powerful engine driving world economic growth. The Global Energy Internet is an energy infrastructure covering the world, involving power sources, power grids, equipment, scientific research, information and other fields. It has a large investment demand, a long industrial chain and strong driving force. By 2050, the cumulative investment in the Global Energy Internet will exceed 50 trillion US dollars. Especially at the current time when the world economy is undergoing deep adjustments, recovery is slow and growth momentum is insufficient, the role of the Global Energy Internet in driving economic growth is particularly significant."

Li Yining introduced that in the next ten years, China's annual investment in energy internet construction will reach 2 trillion yuan, which can drive GDP growth by more than 1.5 percentage points each year. It will not only be able to absorb a large amount of excess production capacity such as steel, cement, wind power, photovoltaics, etc., but will also effectively drive the development of a number of strategic emerging industries such as new energy, new materials, intelligent manufacturing, and electric vehicles, promote the accelerated growth of new technologies and new business formats, and promote the transformation of the supply mode of economic development power. It is an important strategic growth pole for stabilizing growth, adjusting structure, and controlling haze, and has huge economic, social, and environmental value.