Make renewable energy affordable to increase use

Relevant central departments have made clear China's long-term objective in the renewable energy sector and provided feasible ways of achieving it.

According to a document they released recently, the goal is for the national renewable energy consumption to reach the equivalent of more than 1.1 billion tons of standard coal by 2025, and exceed the equivalent of 1.5 billion tons of standard coal by 2030, to provide a strong support for realizing the carbon peaking target.

Which is a challenging task, considering the need to both ensure economic development as also transition to renewable energy. To solve that problem, the document advocates multiple kinds of renewable energies to replace coal as a source of power. The document says the use of bio-diesel, bio-aviation fuel, bio-methane, green hydrogen, ammonia alcohol and other new energies will be increased to lower the percentage of coal in the total energy mix.