On December 21,2023, the "Clean and Smart Energy High-quality Development Conference" jointly hosted by China EV100 and Jinan Management Committee of New Energy Transformation was successfully held in Jinan, Shandong Province. With the theme of "Clean energy promotes the green and low-carbon transformation of industry", Xu Dingming, deputy director of the National Energy Expert Advisory Committee and former director of the National Energy Administration, delivered a keynote speech titled "Participating in the great changes in energy, promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of industry". The following is a summary of the guests' views.
The energy transition is both a tool and a historical opportunity. The just-concluded United Nations COP 28 conference marks the beginning of the post-fossil fuel era, which gradually moves away from coal, oil and natural gas. Throughout the history of the development of human society, every major progress of human civilization is accompanied by the improvement and replacement of energy, following the historical track of high carbon to low carbon, low efficiency to efficient, unclean to clean, not sustainable to sustainable, and developing step by step from low to high level. At present, environmental awareness and environmental quality have become an important symbol to measure the civilization degree of a country and a nation. The energy revolution we are experiencing is an active, conscious and conscious choice of mankind, which will create historic development opportunities, enter a new industrial era led by new energy technologies, and create a cleaner and greener tomorrow.
Energy reform is an inevitable requirement for China to achieve high-quality development. High-quality development is one of the essential requirements of Chinese-style modernization. To achieve high-quality development, we need to rethink the relationship between man and nature, and promote the green and digital transformation of economy and energy. Therefore, to achieve the "two-carbon" goal is not the demand of the international community for us, but the path we must choose. In order to develop green ways of production and living, stabilize carbon emissions, improve the ecological environment, fundamentally improve, and basically achieve the goal of a beautiful China, we need to further promote the transformation of clean energy, support the low-carbon energy transition in the post-epidemic era, and achieve the goal of sustainable energy for everyone.
"Security" and "revolution" are the fundamental essence of energy reform. The current energy system faces two major tasks, one is to ensure energy security, and the other is to promote the energy revolution. The dialectical unity of security and revolution is the inherent requirement of realizing energy reform: energy security cannot be ensured without promoting energy revolution, and energy revolution cannot be promoted without ensuring energy security. Universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy requires faster deployment of renewable energy in electricity, heating and transportation, and greater efforts to increase the use of renewable energy in areas such as transportation and heating.
Science and technology determines the future of energy, and science and technology creates the future of energy. The development of new energy fundamentally breaks the resource attribute and geographical limitation of energy. In the long run, the future energy development does not depend on the possession of resources, but depends on the breakthrough of energy technology. At the same time, technology-driven energy has put forward higher requirements for the digitalization of energy, which is not only the key content of the "14th Five-Year" energy planning, but also in line with the general trend of the world energy digital transformation. As the so-called "cloud depth, double carbon further", make full use of big data, cloud computing and other digital technologies to promote energy reform, can better promote the construction of new power system, and achieve net zero emissions as soon as possible.
To meet the people's yearning for a better life, we need a high level of ecological appearance, high quality of development and high quality of life. As Mr.Fei Xiaotong said, human civilization should be "each beauty, beauty, beauty, beauty, beauty, and the world is one". To build a beautiful China and an energy power, we need to have faith in our hearts, strength at our feet, and stay true to our original aspiration.