CSG Gears up for Achieving Carbon Neutrality

China Southern Power Grid (CSG) released 21 measures to serve carbon dioxide emissions peak and carbon neutrality on March 18.

They cover scope of energy replacement on the supply side, modern power grid construction, and building a clean, low-carbon, safe and highly-efficient energy system.

China's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period will be crucial to the goal of carbon dioxide emissions peak. CSG will take action in replacing traditional energy with renewable ones and build a power system with new energy as a pillar. The system will supply power in South China's Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and Hainan provinces, and support green and low-carbon development in Hong Kong and Macao.

The five provinces previously mentioned have a current new energy installed capacity of 50 million kW, and the company will improve the capacity to 250 million kW and raise the proportion of non-fossil energy production to 61 percent by 2030.

From the energy demand side, CSG will highly value pollution and carbon reduction in major industries to promote reform of energy consumption patterns.

According to the measures, the company will boost new types of electrification in such fields as industry, traffic, construction and rural vitalization, which include accelerating charging pile installation, launching energy-conserving services, improving power demand side management and promoting efficient allocation and utilization of energy resources.

With such efforts, electricity is intended to occupy more than 38 percent of terminal energy consumption by 2030 in the five provinces.

In terms of the power grid, CSG said that it will continue to improve management of clean energy resources.

It will support sustainable development of China's west-to-east power transmission project and at the same time import clean power from other regions.

The company aims to increase trans-regional power transmission to 78 million kW by 2030.

As the country pushes forward to achieve its goal of carbon dioxide emissions peak and carbon neutrality, new energy-generated power and power electronic equipment will be widely used, which will possibly lead to unstable grid operation.

In response to that challenge, CSG said that it will build a safe, reliable, green, highly-efficient and smart modern power grid suitable for urban situations.

Digital power grid transformation will also be a highlight of the company's future work to ensure safe and stable operation of the power grid and improve quality and efficiency of new energy-generated power's connection to the grid.

CSG has been in full swing in building energy resource management platforms and promoting green production and consumption patterns, and has made outstanding achievements in clean energy consumption and ecological civilization construction.

In 2020, CSG's non-fossil energy installed capacity and power generation in the five provinces of South China mentioned above accounted for 56 percent and 53 percent of the company's totals. Its utilization of water, wind and solar power generated exceeded 99 percent.

(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)