Speech of Hang Hai, Director of Jiangsu Provincial Energy Administration

Green energy development is a universal consensus of the international community, as well as the important direction of China's energy development.

Located in the southeastern coast of China, Jiangsu is developed with huge energy consumption and high external dependence. While improving its energy production and supply capacity, Jiangsu has persistently taken energy restructuring as the main direction of the energy production and consumption revolution, and vigorously developed green energy through the construction of regional energy transformation demonstration projects.

First, strengthening the guidance for planning. The provincial "13th Five-Year" energy development plan expressly encourages new energy demonstration cities (industrial parks) and green energy demonstration counties to meet regional energy consumption needs by means of power generation with wind, PV and roof PV.

Second, strengthening guidance for demonstration programs. In recent years, the nation has approved five green energy demonstration counties and seven new energy demonstration cities (districts) in Jiangsu. Last year, Yangzhong successfully applied for the status of national high-proportion new energy application demonstration city. Jiangsu was ranked top in the country in the number of demonstration points.

Third, providing more policy support.  In the first half of 2017, Jiangsu's installed renewable energy generating capacity increased by 3.72 million kilowatts, accounting for 71% of Jiangsu's total growth. Such added capacity amounted to 17.18 million kilowatts, up 43% year on year, accounting for 16% of the provincial total; renewable energy yielded 15.1 billion kwh of power for the province, a year-on-year increase by 29%, and all the output was timely transmitted to and fully accommodated by the grid for consumption.

The International Green Energy Development Conference in Jiangsu offered us a good opportunity to create a better development environment and explore a better development model by learning from each other and making up deficiencies, to promote the sound and sustainable development of green energy in Jiangsu.