22-09-04
Currently, the utilization of renewable resources in China is much lower than the average level of the developed countries. It has witnessed 14 percentage points lower than the world average in the instalment of nuclear energy capacity and a retardation of renewable and new resources.
So to reduce the over-dependence on petroleum, make a breakthrough in
restrictions from resources and environment, and to achieve a sustainable growth
in the fields of energy resources, economy, society as well as environment has
become the most pressing matter at the present moment.
Although there are many kinds of retrievable and new energy resources with their technologies at different stages of development, yet generally speaking, they all face with a common problem. At present, the renewable resources, with inadequate market and scale, only take up a small fraction of the total energy resources.
Consequently, the new and renewable resources fail to get a prominent place in
the general strategy of the energy development and lack a long-term objective
for development, with the unified long-term programme for development and the
plan for concrete implementation still in the shaping.
In a circumstance in which no protection from the law can be guaranteed, and the current policy is short of stability and continuity, and there is so far no establishment of an effective investment and circulation mechanism to encourage the development of renewable resources, the large-scale commercial development is unable to march forward only by depending on the governmental investment and international support.
Moreover, restricted by the economical development and inadequate input for the
research and development of domestic renewable resources, there is no complete
system for the research and development of renewable resources and equipment of
manufacturing system. As a result, part of the key technologies and facilities
rely for a long time on importing from overseas.
Due to the lack of a system for exploration, evaluation and management of resources, especially the detailed data information for planning and development, for evaluation of environmental and social benefits evaluation the renewable resources are often subjected in an inferior position in market competition, and so there hasn't come into being a development situation in which the whole society take an active part.
An official from the Energy Bureau of the National Development and Reform
Commission said, the diversification of energy resources may play an active part
in solving the shortage of domestic resources and the environmental restriction.
We will carry out the necessary policy for economic encouragement and urge
the industrialization and commercialisation of substitute energy when the
strategic position, government responsibility and social obligation of the
renewable energy are clarified. By way of the public bidding of governmental
projects, the compulsory marketing share of the renewable resources and the
policy of legal procurement price, the marketing obstacles of renewable energy
development can be removed.
The nationwide awareness of retrenchment and the cultural atmosphere of a new
type of consumption will gradually help improve the social conscientiousness in
the utilization of the retrievable energy. Some large enterprises are now
actively using the recoverable resources and engaged in developing the
technology for retrievable energy and equipment manufacture.
Source: People's Daily Online