Dalat frontrunner photovoltaic power generation base. Meng and Chao Lu photographed
Baosteel energy-saving and environmental protection renovation project - desulfurization tower hoisting site.
Tongliao Modern Energy "Fire Wind, Photovoltaic Storage and Research" Integrated Demonstration Project.
Xilin Gol League Abaga Wind Farm. Photo by Ma Jianquan
Vehicles transporting wind power blades are driving in the Alxa Gobi. Photo by Ma Jianquan
Photovoltaic power plants under the stars. Photo by Meng and Chao Lu
The world's first zero-carbon industrial park project located in the Mengsu Economic Development Zone in Ordos City is stepping up construction, with transport vehicles shuttling back and forth, large cranes rising and falling, and construction booms everywhere... Envision Technology Group's project aims to achieve a high proportion of low-cost renewable energy production and use, and is expected to be completed and put into operation this year. At that time, a green energy industry chain that runs through upstream and downstream such as power batteries and energy storage, electric heavy trucks, battery materials, and green hydrogen production will be born in Inner Mongolia.
"The energy revolution brought about by carbon neutrality will drive the industrial revolution, which in turn will drive a scientific and technological revolution. The zero-carbon industrial park will become the cradle of the new industrial revolution, and Ordos is fully likely to lead the green new industrial revolution. Zhang Lei, CEO of Envision Technology Group, said.
"Double carbon", that is, the abbreviation of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. The mainland proposes that carbon dioxide emissions peak by 2030 and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.
To achieve the "double carbon" goal, energy is the main battlefield. Carbon neutrality will promote the transformation of the energy system to green, low-carbon and carbon-free, realize the replacement of high-carbon fossil energy by carbon-free new energy, and promote the transformation of the industrial system from high carbon to low carbon or even zero carbon. The world's first zero-carbon industrial park project will undoubtedly play an important leading role in building a green energy and zero-carbon new industrial system.
Under the background of "double carbon", as an important national energy and strategic resource base, Inner Mongolia has always faced huge pressure for transformation and upgrading. How to turn? How to rise? Under the background of "double carbon", how can the modern energy economy solve the problem? Inner Mongolia has embarked on a green development path of subtraction in emission reduction and consumption reduction, addition by "chasing the wind and day by day", and multiplication driven by innovation.
Reduce emissions and reduce consumption to do subtraction
Inner Mongolia Saispu Technology Co., Ltd. annual output of 300,000 tons of hydrogen-based melt reduction high-purity casting pig iron project production site, fiery red hot molten iron gushing out of the furnace. The project is a landmark project of industrial transformation introduced by Wuhai City in 2019, and the high-purity cast pig iron produced can be widely used in high-end equipment manufacturing fields such as high-speed rail, nuclear power, and wind power castings.
According to the relevant person in charge of Saispu, the "hydrogen metallurgy" process has been reduced by more than 30% due to the addition of hydrogen, the cancellation of heavy pollution processes such as sintering and coking, and the advantages of energy saving and consumption reduction are obvious, and the comprehensive energy consumption is 60 kg /ton less than that of the traditional blast furnace.
"At present, the process we have put into production has realized the use of 20% hydrogen instead of coal for iron smelting, and it is planned to achieve full hydrogen industrial smelting by 2025." Introduction of the person in charge.
To achieve the "double carbon" goal, it is the key to promote energy conservation and carbon reduction in key areas of high-energy-consuming industries.
In order to ensure the completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" energy consumption dual control target, Inner Mongolia has issued a series of energy-saving and consumption-reduction policies and measures, formulated a "road map", inverted the "timetable", and reduced carbon and consumption "wall-chart operations".
-- Issued the "Several Safeguard Measures on Ensuring the Completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan" Energy Consumption Dual Control Target Task, strictly controlled the scale of production capacity of high-energy-consuming industries, improved industry access standards, accelerated the elimination and resolution of backward and excess capacity, and promoted the transformation of energy-saving technologies in key high-energy-consuming industries to accelerate the pace of structural adjustment of high-energy-consuming industries;
——Issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Access Management of High-Energy-Consuming and High-Emission Projects" and strictly controlled the new production capacity of traditional low-end "two highs" industries such as ferroalloys, calcium carbide, coke, iron and steel, and electrolytic aluminum;
-- Promulgating the Action Plan for rectifying and rectifying "zero" of "two supreme" illegal projects, comprehensively carrying out the classified disposal of illegal "two supreme" projects, and realizing the "zero clearance" of rectification;
——Issued the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Coal Power Conservation and Consumption Reduction and Flexibility Transformation Action Plan (2021-2023), which plans to eliminate 953,500 kilowatts of backward production capacity by 2023。
Forward-looking thinking, overall planning, strategic layout, overall advancement. Under the background of "double carbon", Inner Mongolia has taken a new path of high-quality development oriented by ecological priority and green development, and has continuously solved problems and seen results.
According to the data of the Autonomous Region Development and Reform Commission, the double control of energy consumption in the whole region has achieved obvious results in 2021, and in the first three quarters of 2021, the energy consumption per unit of GDP in the whole region fell by 8.3% year-on-year, the total energy consumption fell by 1.2% year-on-year, and the two indicators of energy intensity and total amount maintained "double green" for three consecutive quarters.
"Chasing the wind day by day" does addition
The energy industry is the leading industry in Inner Mongolia and has become the first of the six pillar industries in the autonomous region. In 2021, Inner Mongolia's energy economy will achieve "six firsts" in the country: the actual coal production capacity is the first in the country, the total installed capacity of electric power is the first in the country, the new energy installed capacity is the first in the country, the coal is sent out of the country, the electricity is sent out in the country, and the power transmission capacity is the first in the country。
However, the dominant industry is also facing the "pain of transformation".
In order to achieve the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, we must actively adjust the industrial structure and energy structure, vigorously develop new energy industries such as wind energy, solar photovoltaics, and hydrogen energy, and increase the proportion of new energy in energy supply." Guo Qiguang, associate professor of the Economics Teaching and Research Department of the Inner Mongolia Party School, said.
"Promote the transformation of Inner Mongolia from a fossil energy region to a clean energy region."
"Strive to take the lead in building an energy supply system with new energy as the main body in the country."
Firm goals, clear paths, and draw blueprints together! Inner Mongolia "chases the wind day by day", fully promotes the large-scale and high-proportion development and utilization of new energy sources such as wind power and photovoltaics, and strides forward on the road of accelerating the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system.
The first fire, wind, solar and storage integration demonstration project in China- tongliao Modern Energy "fire, wind and solar storage and research" integrated demonstration project Phase I main project started, inner Mongolia to promote the high-quality development of green energy-carrying industry further.
One of the first large-scale wind power photovoltaic base projects started in the country - the 2 million kilowatt photovoltaic sand control project of Kubuqi in Mengxi Base, Inner Mongolia, landed in Ordos, and the desert "borrowed green gold" to add another stroke.
The first batch of units (500,000 kilowatts) of the Three Gorges Wulanchabu New Generation Power Grid Friendly Green Power Station Demonstration Project were successfully integrated into the Inner Mongolia power grid, and the construction of a new power system in Inner Mongolia was accelerated again.
With the strategic goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, we will force the green and low-carbon transformation of energy. Inner Mongolia got rid of the path dependence of "one coal dominates" and aimed at the new energy industry to continue to exert efforts.
"Strive to continue to build and start construction of new energy scale of more than 40 million kilowatts within the year, add about 20 million kilowatts of new energy connected to the grid, and the proportion of installed renewable energy capacity reaches about 40%, laying an important foundation for achieving the installed capacity of new energy exceeding the installed scale of thermal power in 2025." At the 2022 Inner Mongolia Energy Work Conference, Wang Jinbao, secretary of the party group and director of the Autonomous Region Energy Bureau, said so.
Innovation drives multiplication
A piece of black and dull coal, a bottle of crystal clear white polypropylene granules, a roll of food plastic wrap, neatly arranged in the product exhibition hall of Inner Mongolia Jiutai New Materials Co., Ltd., coal to achieve a gorgeous turn from black to white.
Under the constraint of the "double carbon" target, Ordos, which is rich in "black gold", focuses on the development of resource-based industries on resource conversion and appreciation, and the coal chemical industry chain continues to extend downstream, and the value chain continues to climb to the middle and high end.
Fu Feixiong, director of the Economic Development Bureau of ordos Dalu Industrial Park, told reporters: "Ordos gives full play to the role of the 'ballast stone' of the coal industry, promotes the clean and efficient use of coal, promotes the high-end, diversified and low-carbon development of the coal chemical industry, creates an industrial chain from 'a piece of coal' to 'a piece of cloth', to high-end chemicals, and realizes the industrial upgrading of coal from raw materials to materials and from low-end to high-end." ”
Behind the industrial upgrading is a continuous driving force for scientific and technological innovation. At the beginning of 2021, less than 20% of all 475 industrial enterprises above designated size in Ordos have innovative activities, and after one year of "three clearances" of no R&D investment, no R&D institutions, and no invention patents, 26% of enterprises have achieved "three clearances", driving enterprises to invest 3.47 billion yuan in R&D. Around the industrial chain layout innovation chain, Ordos strides forward on the road of innovation.
"To achieve the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, scientific and technological innovation is the key. It is necessary to make good use of the key variables of scientific and technological innovation, seize the opportunity of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and provide strategic support for Inner Mongolia to take a new path of high-quality development oriented by ecological priority and green development. Sun Junqing, director of the Science and Technology Department of the Autonomous Region, said.
According to the data of the Science and Technology Department of the Autonomous Region, from 2020 to 2021, Inner Mongolia has successively arranged 33 major scientific and technological projects in the fields of hydrogen energy, large-scale energy storage, carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage, rare earth, and ecological environment, and a number of advanced energy technologies such as "coal underground gasification", "large-scale flywheel energy storage", "source network load storage", "fire, wind and solar storage integration" and "carbon dioxide mineralization" will be tackled and transformed in Inner Mongolia.
Every day is new, every day is new, and every day is new. Not long ago, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Carbon Peak Carbon Neutral Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan was approved by the expert group. The expert group unanimously agreed that the plan closely combines the scientific and technological innovation needs of Inner Mongolia's "double carbon" goal, and the proposed carbon reduction path is in line with Inner Mongolia's resource endowments, economic development and industrial characteristics, has a strong forward-looking, strategic, guiding and operable, and fully reflects the strategic support role of scientific and technological innovation.
Change resource-driven to innovation-driven. The "multiplier effect" played by innovation will surely help Inner Mongolia's modern energy economy to accelerate towards greening, cleaning and high-end.
The horses gallop like a tide, and they travel alone for thousands of miles a day. In the hinterland of the Kubuqi Desert, the horse figure composed of 196,320 blue photovoltaic panels comes to life and is particularly eye-catching. Inner Mongolia's modern energy economy, like this galloping horse, is galloping towards the goal of "double carbon". (Reporter Xu Xiaolan Kang Lina)