Beijing (China Daily/ANN) - China
will make nuclear energy the foundation of its power-generation system in the
next 10 to 20 years, said a senior official on Tuesday.
The country will increase
generation capacity by 2 billion kilowatts (kW) during that period, with as
much as 300 million kW coming from nuclear power, said Shi Lishan, deputy
director of the National Energy Administration's new-energy and renewable
energy department, at the 21st Century Low-Carbon Chinese Development Summit
held in Beijing on Tuesday.
He said renewable energy will
account for a greater proportion of the energy consumed during the 12th Five
Year Plan (2011-2015) period.
China now has 40 million kW of
nuclear capacity, and an industry insider said it will have to add another 26
million kW each year to reach its goal. Achieving that will force the country
to spend about 800 billion yuan ($125 billion) annually in the next 10 to 20
years.
The insider, who declined to
provide his name, said China is developing third-generation nuclear technology
that will help make nuclear plants safer and increase their generating
capacity.
"If China puts more research
and development into making equipment for nuclear generation, the high costs of
nuclear plants will decrease to between 15,000 and 20,000 yuan a kW," he
said. "That will make a great contribution to the industry."
China will not swerve from its
goal of coming to rely more on nuclear power, said Xie Zhenhua, vice-director
of the National Development and Reform Commission, on Nov 22.
According to Shanghai
Securities News, Zhang Guobao, former head of the commission's National Energy
Administration, said China is likely to resume building nuclear plants in
March. Zhang said the country will become the largest market for nuclear power
in the world. The statement marked the first time a Chinese high official has
released a schedule for the construction of nuclear plants since the country
suspended approval of such projects in response to the nuclear accident at the
Fukushima Daiichi plant brought on by the massive earthquake and tsunami that
struck Japan in March.
With energy consumption
increasing in China, the country cannot stop the development of nuclear power,
said Zhang. He added that the country has meanwhile set a goal of obtaining 15
percent of its electricity from non-fossil fuels by 2020.
The State Council announced on
March 16 that it would suspend approvals for nuclear plant construction and
ordered safety inspections at all plants.
On April 15, a national
inspection group, composed of the National Energy Administration, National
Nuclear Safety Administration and China Earthquake Administration, began
checking the safety of nuclear plants under construction and in operation.
Shi said China's generation
capacity will reach 1.05 billion kW by the end of the year.
He said the country's power
supply will not be stable unless steps are taken to promote energy efficiency.
Du Juan in Beijing/China Daily
| ANN
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