Bottlenecks and countermeasures of high-penetration renewable energy development in china

Jizhen Liu , Qinghua Wang , Ziqiu Song , Fang Fang

Engineering ›› 2021, Vol. 7 ›› Issue (11) : 1611 -1622.

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Engineering ›› 2021, Vol. 7 ›› Issue (11) : 1611 -1622. DOI: 10.1016/j.eng.2020.08.016
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Bottlenecks and countermeasures of high-penetration renewable energy development in china

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China has become the world's largest producer and consumer of energy, and ranks first in its wind and solar power installation capacity. However, increasingly serious wind and solar curtailment in China has significantly hindered the development and utilization of renewable energy. To address problems in the consumption of renewable energy, this paper analyzes four key factors affecting the capacity of power generated from renewable energy sources: power balance, power regulation performance, transmission capacity, and load level. Focusing on these bottlenecks, we propose seven solutions: centralized and distributed development of renewable energy, improving the peak-load regulation flexibility of thermal power, increasing the proportion of gas turbines and pumped-hydropower storage, construction of transmission channels and a flexible smart grid developing demand response and virtual power plants, adopting new energy active support and energy storage, and establishing appropriate policies and market mechanisms. The Chinese government and energy authorities have issued a series of policies and measures, and in the past three years, China has had remarkable achievements in the adoption of renewable energy. The rate of idle wind capacity decreased from 17% in 2016 to 7% in 2018, and that of solar decreased from 10% in 2016 to 3% in 2018.

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Bottlenecks / Countermeasures / Idle wind and solar power / Renewable energy

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Jizhen Liu, Qinghua Wang, Ziqiu Song, Fang Fang. Bottlenecks and countermeasures of high-penetration renewable energy development in china. Engineering, 2021, 7(11): 1611-1622 DOI:10.1016/j.eng.2020.08.016

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