Photo taken on Dec. 8, 2021 shows wind turbines at Changma wind farm in Yumen City, northwest China's Gansu Province. (Xinhua/Fan Peishen)
BEIJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- China unveiled a five-year plan on Wednesday for renewable energy development to see wind and solar power generation double by 2025, reported Shanghai Securities News on Thursday.
According to the plan, by 2025, the total consumption of renewable energy will reach about 1 billion tons of standard coal, accounting for about 18 percent of primary energy consumption.
Meanwhile, the renewable energy will generate about 3.3 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually.
Except for power generation, the scale of solar thermal utilization, geothermal energy heating, biomass heating, and biomass fuels will be equivalent to more than 60 million tons of standard coal.
The plan also calls for the development of "energy storage" in renewable energy, and suggests providing policy support to such pilot projects as real estate investment trust funds in hydro, wind, and solar power storage station infrastructure.
According to the preliminary calculation, in 2025, the annual use of renewable energy will be equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 2.6 billion tons, sulfur dioxide emissions by about 500,000 tons, nitrogen oxide emissions by about 600,000 tons, soot emissions by about 100,000 tons, and water consumption by about 4 billion cubic meters.
(Edited by Dai Jingjing with Xinhua Silk Road, aime_jenny@163.com)
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