The Future of Power Is Transcontinental, Submarine Supergrids
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(Bloomberg Businessweek) Ever since President Xi Jinping pitched the idea of a âglobal energy internetâ to the United Nations six years ago, Chinaâs been trying to persuade the world to build the high voltage highways that would form its backbone. That plan to wrap the planet in a web of intercontinental, made-in-Beijing power lines has gone pretty much nowhere. Yet the fortunes of so-called supergrids appear to be turning, if not.
(Bloomberg Businessweek) Ever since President Xi Jinping pitched the idea of a âglobal energy internetâ to the United Nations six years ago, Chinaâs been trying to persuade the world to build the high voltage highways that would form its backbone. That plan to wrap the planet in a web of intercontinental, made-in-Beijing power lines has gone pretty much nowhere. Yet the fortunes of so-called
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2021-04-29 02:23:25 GMT2021-04-29 10:23:25(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
Staff work at the Shichengzi photovoltaic power station in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)
URUMQI, April 28 (Xinhua) In the vast Gobi desert in the east of China s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, over 10,000 pentagon-shaped mirror-like devices form layers of circles, resembling a radiating sun. At the very center of the sun stands a 220-meter-high tower.
It is not a mysterious ritual from the old days, nor artwork. The project is a modern attempt by the region to capitalize on its abundant solar energy and turn it into heat and power.
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Beijing: China’s recent commitment to curb coal consumption and coal-fired power projects has sent a strong signal that the country will unswervingly reduce its reliance on coal as a dominant source of energy, experts said.
They also said the pledge demonstrates China’s resolve to tackle the global climate crisis, taking into consideration that energy demand in the country will keep growing for economic growth and better livelihoods.
“China will strictly control coal-fired power generation projects, ” President Xi Jinping said while addressing the Leaders Summit on Climate via video link from Beijing on Thursday.
The country will also strictly limit the increase in coal consumption over the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period and gradually reduce it in the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) period, he added.