Technological innovation enables high-quality energy development in the new era

China Energy Storage Network: At present, a new round of energy technology revolution and industrial transformation is forming a historic intersection. We must firmly grasp the new characteristics and new demands of the new era, make up for shortcomings, strengthen weaknesses, increase advantages, and cultivate and expand new growth points for China's industrial upgrading through energy technology innovation to support the high-quality development of China's energy industry.

Innovation is the primary driving force for development. Adhering to energy technology innovation is the core foundation for implementing the new energy security strategy of "four revolutions and one cooperation". In the new era, my country's energy technology must keep pace with national strategic needs, adhere to problem-oriented and goal-oriented approaches, accelerate the layout of major frontier areas, strengthen effective matching of systems and mechanisms, and promote the market-oriented allocation of technological factors, thereby promoting the efficient operation of the engine driven by energy technology innovation.

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Should keep up with national strategic needs

Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, my country's energy science and technology innovation has made great progress. A series of large equipment and projects such as the "Hualong One", the Blue Whale series, and the ultra-high voltage construction have created a bright Chinese business card; the technical levels of wind power and photovoltaic industrialization are both in the world's leading position; emerging energy fields such as hydrogen energy and energy storage have made strong breakthroughs, and laboratory research and industrial exploration have gone hand in hand; following the footsteps of the "Belt and Road Initiative", Chinese energy companies have achieved the export of equipment and standards by undertaking international energy projects.

Facing the new era, my country's energy science and technology should keep pace with national strategic needs, adhere to problem-oriented and goal-oriented approaches, make up for shortcomings, strengthen weaknesses, and increase advantages. Through energy technology innovation, we should cultivate and expand new growth points for my country's industrial upgrading, and support the fundamental needs, development needs, and leading needs for the high-quality development of my country's energy industry.

Strengthening technical shortcomings is the fundamental need to solve the problem of my country's energy technology and equipment independence. The international situation is complex and changeable, and competition in key core technologies has become the key to national competition. As a traditional industry, the energy industry has a large inertia of technical thinking and a lack of innovation vitality. For a long time, it has focused on application and neglected research, resulting in relatively weak basic theoretical research on energy technology. Energy shortboard technology and equipment mainly exist in basic materials, key components, industrial control systems, etc. This type of research involves a wide range of fields, long cycles, large investments, and slow results, and requires further increase in scientific and technological investment and policy support.

Comprehensively improving quality and efficiency is to meet the development needs of the people for better energy use. At present, my country's energy utilization efficiency is still relatively low, and energy carbon emissions are the sum of the United States, the European Union, and Japan. There is still a long way to go in energy transformation, and resource pressure, environmental pressure, and emission reduction pressure urgently need to strengthen technical response. The large-scale development of clean energy still needs to further reduce costs and improve efficiency, and actively enhance competitiveness in the market environment. Unbalanced development problems such as high dependence on foreign oil and gas, overcapacity of coal-fired power, and difficulties in energy export from the west urgently need to be solved through technical means. The emergence of new energy use methods and personalized needs has brought new challenges and opportunities for energy technology innovation.

Seizing the competitive initiative is a leading requirement for my country to become a strong country in energy science and technology. my country has entered a critical period of the "two centenary goals" struggle, and the world's comprehensive national strength competition requires us to accelerate the seizure of the high ground of scientific and technological competition. Energy is an important field related to the lifeline of the national economy. Energy science and technology innovation must shoulder the historical responsibility, focus on future development, focus on intensive efforts in forward-looking and disruptive fields, accelerate leaps, use scientific and technological power to guide and create future energy, and transform from a "follower" and "runner-up" to a "leader", providing strong support for building a strong country in science and technology.

“Continuously enrich the connotation of scientific and technological innovation in the new era”

In the new era, technological innovation is changing with each passing day, and application scenarios are becoming more intelligent and diverse. Energy science and technology development is facing new missions and new challenges. It is necessary to keep pace with the times and re-examine the connotation and focus of energy science and technology innovation, use "innovation" to drive "reform", and accelerate the construction of a "clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient" modern energy system.

Ensure energy security in all aspects.

Ensuring energy security is the bottom-line principle for the development of the energy industry, and its connotation and requirements are constantly enriched in the context of the new era.

In terms of energy supply security, on the basis of improving the recovery rate of conventional and unconventional oil and gas resources, we should also focus on developing alternative energy sources. In a broad sense, this includes but is not limited to the development of low-cost and high-efficiency coal-to-oil, coal-to-gas and other technologies, exploring application scenarios such as nuclear energy industrial heating and mobile power sources, expanding the space for the use of solar thermal, biomass and geothermal energy, especially strengthening the use of marine resources such as deep-sea oil and gas extraction and wind power generation, and practicing the strategy of building a strong maritime nation.

With the promotion and application of modern information technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things in energy systems, unprecedented network security challenges have been brought to energy systems, and network security construction has become a focus. On the one hand, we should accelerate the localization of industrial-grade chips and control systems to prevent problems at the end of the network; on the other hand, we should accelerate the establishment of an intelligent active defense network security system to enhance the protection capabilities of energy networks.

As international competition becomes increasingly fierce, the problem of being controlled by others in some key core technologies and equipment in the energy sector has attracted much attention. It is urgent to accelerate the layout of basic, forward-looking, and disruptive research with the goal of achieving independent control of key core technologies, systematically sort out and formulate a roadmap for tackling short-board technologies, give full play to the advantages of the new national system to concentrate on tackling key problems, and strive to achieve breakthroughs within a certain period of time. Focus on improving technical standards and intellectual property systems with an international perspective, consolidate technological advantages, and enhance international competitiveness. At the same time, make emergency plans and strengthen prevention and response to emergencies such as supply cuts and tax increases.

High standards support green transformation.

In order to support my country's major strategic goals such as reaching its carbon emissions peak around 2030 and non-fossil energy accounting for more than 50% of primary energy in energy production by 2050, accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation of energy is the most urgent task in building a beautiful China in the new era, and it requires continuous optimization and improvement with high standards and strict requirements.

In 2019, renewable energy accounted for 27.9% of electricity generation, but the phenomenon of water, wind and solar power abandonment is still prominent in some local areas. As renewable energy changes from an auxiliary role to a main role, new energy has put forward technical requirements for active support of the power grid and high-precision prediction. It is necessary to strengthen the understanding of the characteristics and mechanisms of the new generation of power systems, strengthen optimized scheduling and intelligent control, maintain the safe and stable operation of the power grid while improving the resource allocation capabilities of the power grid. At the same time, continuously optimize the performance indicators of energy storage such as energy density, power density, and service life, and deeply explore and give play to its support and regulation potential in all links of source, grid and load.

Clean conversion and utilization of fossil energy is an important way to achieve the transformation from non-green energy to green energy. With the acceleration of the pace of global oil product upgrading, the desulfurization capacity of the oil refining industry needs to be further improved to meet the requirements of the "sulfur limit order" of the International Maritime Organization. Continue to develop carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology to control emissions from the source of primary energy. Remove flue gas pollutants and purify organic wastewater in the deep processing of coal to meet environmental and policy requirements.