(Source: China News Network 2026-03-09)
Environmental protection and energy security have often been seen as a w88-off relationship in the past: as environmental protection efforts increase, there are concerns about affecting some traditional energy supplies; emphasizing energy security may slow down the green transformation. Facing the "15th Five-Year Plan", China is working hard to break this simple opposition.
Focusing on "accelerating green transformation and building a beautiful China", the draft outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to "accelerate the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient new energy system" and clarifies the specific path: to promote the safe, reliable and orderly replacement of fossil energy by non-fossil energy, adhere to the simultaneous development of wind, solar, water and nuclear energy, and implement the ten-year doubling action of non-fossil energy.
Many experts pointed out during interviews that achieving environmental protection goals and energy security is by no means an either/or question. Instead, we need to find the optimal solution to the dynamic balance between ensuring energy security and stability and promoting the transformation of green energy.
Tong Jinnan, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and a professor at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), told a reporter from China News Service that the core goal of environmental protection is to enable people to live a healthy, beautiful and happy life, and energy is the cornerstone to meet this demand. He believes that it is very important to determine the "balance point" before non-carbon new energy and green industries can fully meet social energy demand.
“The balance we pursue is not a simple choice between the two, but to build energy security on a sustainable basis through technological innovation and institutional coordination.” Huang Miansong, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and deputy general manager of Beijing Capital Environmental Protection Group, said that the key to breaking the situation is to establish a systemic governance thinking.
atDong Xiucheng, Executive Dean of the China International Carbon Neutral Economic Research Institute, w88 casinoIt seems that this balance is reflected in many aspects.
For example, in terms of energy structure, we must vigorously develop wind, solar, water, nuclear, and energy storage, and give priority to non-fossil energy for energy increment; we must ensure the supply of coal and electricity, oil and gas reserves, and emergency peak shaving to hold the "energy rice bowl" in our own hands. In terms of technology, we will promote the cleanliness of coal power, accelerate the development of new energy and energy storage, build a new power system, and solve the problems of power intermittency and stability. Regionally, we adhere to the national game of chess and cross-regional mutual aid, and develop the Shagehuang wind and solar base, ultra-high voltage external transmission, green power to the east, and west-to-east power in the Three North Regions; in the eastern region, distribute distributed photovoltaic, energy storage and virtual power plants; in the western region, coordinate wind, solar, water, nuclear, energy storage and coal power peak shaving to achieve the integration of source, grid and load storage.
It is worth noting that in the grand chess game of national energy security, environmental protection companies that traditionally focus on “end-of-pipe management” are facing new opportunities from “supporting roles” to “protagonists”.
In Huang Miansong's view, environmental protection companies should not only be "end controllers" of pollution, but should also be positioned as "incremental contributors" and "system integrators" of green energy. On the one hand, technological means are used to improve the level of industrial energy conservation and resource recycling, and reduce the energy consumption intensity of the whole society; on the other hand, it is necessary to break away from the traditional "project thinking" and explore ways to realize the value of ecological products from a higher dimension, such as combining ecological environment management with new energy industries.
Dong XiuchengIt is recommended that environmental protection enterprises should increase green supply and deeply participate in the construction of supporting facilities for scenery, water, nuclear power and nuclear power. In the field of energy storage, electrochemical energy storage, pumped hydro energy storage, virtual power plant aggregation, and grid flexibility transformation are realized. In addition, in the field of green electricity consumption, we will realize direct supply of industrial green electricity, zero-carbon transformation of parks, and green electricity trading services to make new energy available and stable.
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