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According to Reuters, China plans to generate at least 40% of its primary energy consumption from renewable energy by 2030, in line with its climate targets.
Fossil fuels are the main cause of carbon emissions and environmental pollution. Therefore, renewable energy is necessary.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2060. Accordingly, a verified plan devised by the National Energy Administration emerged. According to the plan, renewable energy, which currently has a share of 28% in primary energy consumption, is aimed to reach 40% by 2030.
China’s efforts in this area, especially after 2015, are quite positive. You know, in 2013, air pollution in a city reached a dangerous level for human life for the first time, and there was even a period when the sun was not visible due to pollution. However, the measures taken began to yield results, and Beijing, for example, managed to achieve world standards in air quality in 2021 for the first time.
Although they have allocated three times more resources to power plants that generate electricity from coal in 2020 than the rest of the world, even as a discourse, their initiatives on renewable energy are important. The fact that one of the world’s largest industrial giants took this decision shows that change is inevitable and necessary.
Water and Renewable Energy?
China relies on wind and solar power to achieve its goals, according to the report, which was also confirmed by an executive at the National Energy Administration. They aim to increase the share of non-water-based renewable energy in primary energy consumption from 10% to 25%.
It would not be a dream to think that the high-tech geothermal energy facilities we wrote about before will be included in these plans. Because the Chinese administration is very serious about achieving its goals and seems to push both the state and private initiatives more in this regard.
Below you can see the graph of China’s clean energy plan, which is given under two headings as water-based and non-water-based. President Xi, who said in December that China will increase its installed wind and solar power capacity to over 1200 gigawatts by 2030, added that they will take more stringent measures to abandon fossil fuels and switch to clean energy.
China’s 10-year clean energy plan chart
As we have written many times before in Birth of Ideas, the only real agenda of the world is global warming. Our world is warming 1.5 degrees Celsius every year. If measures are not taken, it is stated that this average will rise to 2 degrees Celsius in a short time – which, as soon as this average reaches 3 degrees Celsius, human life begins to be fatally affected by this problem. – This is no joke.
However, it must be admitted that it is difficult to change the perception of engineering since the Industrial Revolution. Yes, we have opportunities to obtain new and clean energy, but serious investments are required to make these opportunities cheaper.
Considering the energy crisis that started with the Ukraine War, it is not difficult to see that European states will allocate more resources to this area. Investments in renewable and clean energy, especially in high-tech geothermal energy types that can be produced regardless of location, will increase.
In this way, air pollution, which shortens human life more than AIDS, cigarettes, drugs or traffic accidents, will come to an end, constantly fluctuating energy prices will not put pressure on the markets, prosperity will spread to the majority of the world that cannot even reach the toilet, and the world will reach a livable future, albeit slowly.
References
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/beijing-meets-air