【XWBOO Top News】 Biomass is a very promising renewable energy source and is the fourth largest energy source after coal, oil and natural gas. Under the goal of "dual-carbon," vigorously developing biomass energy plays an important role in improving energy utilization structure, reducing pollution and carbon content.
According to incomplete statistics, the total amount of biomass energy available in China is about 1 billion tons of standard coal, including crop stalks, processing residues of agricultural products, forestry biological resources, and urban solid wastes. If it can be properly utilized, it can not only give consideration to both solid waste disposal and renewable energy production, but also at a much lower cost than other renewable energy utilization.
The agricultural and forestry residues represented by forestry residues, wood wastes and agricultural straws can be turned into valuables, with the potential to be converted into energy of 460 million tons of standard coal, but the utilized amount is about 22 million tons of standard coal. About 0.47% of China's total energy consumption in 2018.
According to the latest data from the National Energy Administration, in the first three quarters of 2022, China's new installed capacity of renewable energy was 90.36 million kilowatts, accounting for 78.8% of the country's new installed capacity of power generation, including 2.62 million kilowatts of biomass power generation. It accounted for 2.3% of the country's newly installed capacity; in the first three quarters, the country generated 1.94 trillion kwh of electricity from renewable energy, including 112.9 billion kwh of electricity from biomass, up 0.1% year on year.
Specifically, in the first three quarters of 2022, the installed capacity of biomass power will increase by 2.62 million kilowatts, with a cumulative installed capacity of 40.6 million kilowatts and biomass power generated by 112.9 billion kWh. The top five provinces in terms of cumulative installed capacity are Guangdong, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Henan. The figure was 4.16 million kilowatts, 4.11 million kilowatts, 2.96 million kilowatts, 2.84 million kilowatts and 2.55 million kilowatts respectively. the top five provinces in terms of new installed capacity were Guangdong, Heilongjiang, Henan, Liaoning and Guangxi. They were 394,000, 286,000, 279,000, 233,000 and 180,000 kilowatts respectively. the top five provinces in terms of power generation are Guangdong, Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui. It was 14.22 billion kwh, 11.54 billion kwh, 8.47 billion kwh, 8.40 billion kwh and 7.82 billion kwh.
Biomass in China is not a new thing, has experienced a certain period of development. However, so far, the development scale of China's biomass industry is still limited. According to the National Energy Administration, by the end of 2021, China's installed capacity of power generation with biomass energy reached 37.98 million kilowatts, accounting for only about 3.6% of the total installed capacity of power generation with renewable energy; In comparison, the installed capacity of wind power and photovoltaic power generation has reached 328 million kilowatts and 306 million kilowatts respectively. Experts believe that the "low proportion" of biomass stems from technical challenges.
Therefore, on the whole, there is still a lot of space for the development and utilization of biomass energy. With the continuous increase of national support, the continuous development of corresponding technologies and the implementation of projects, biomass energy will also embrace greater and faster development.
Original title: The installed capacity of biomass power generation occupies a small proportion, and the development space is huge.
