[Inner Mongolia Hangjin Banner expands scenery installed capacity]Recently, the Office of the People's Government of Hangjin Banner, Inner Mongolia issued a notice on the issuance of the "Implementation Opinions of Hangjin Banner on Strengthening Standardized Service Management to Promote the High-Quality Development of New Energy." The "Notice" pointed out that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, we will strive to achieve a total wind power and photovoltaic installed capacity of 25 million kilowatts, strictly implement wind power and photovoltaic industry construction standards, provide supporting services through state-owned enterprises, build a community of shared future for regional services and management, and guide The new energy industry will develop in a healthy and orderly manner, achieve a development pattern in which the government is proactive, the market is effective, and enterprises are beneficial, and the organic integration of new energy development with the protection and management of mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grass and sand will be achieved, and a new energy construction benchmark will be created. Implement new energy + ecological comprehensive management. When planning and constructing wind power areas, we must fully consider the living habits of surrounding organisms and take necessary measures to reduce the impact of wind power projects on the ecological environment. After the construction is completed, the soil layer and vegetation will be restored at the wind turbine site, both sides of the road, and exposed hillside. Implement new energy + rural revitalization. Expand new energy + diversified utilization, adapt to local conditions, encourage wind power projects to help rural revitalization, extend production and processing, warehousing and logistics and other industrial chains, strive for special policies and financial support for agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry, expand product supply and marketing channels, and create an integration of new energy + modern agriculture and animal husbandry chemical demonstration project. Editor/Xu Shengpeng
The European Parliament has formally adopted the revised Energy Performance Directive for Buildings (EPBD), which will become law after formal approval by the Council of Ministers. The directive requires all new residential buildings in the EU to be powered by rooftop solar from 2030, and public buildings and non-residential buildings will need to be phased in according to their scale and technical and economic assessments. The EPBD aims to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the building sector in line with the EU's goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050. Currently, the building sector accounts for 40% of the EU's total energy consumption and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions. The aim of improving energy efficiency in buildings is to enhance energy independence and sustainability in this sector by reducing the use of imported oil and gas fuels. Under the forthcoming rules, all new buildings occupied or owned by public bodies will need to be zero-emission by 2028, and all new buildings from 2030 onwards. Member States need to clearly plan the measures taken to decarbonize heating systems in order to phase out fossil fuels in heating and cooling by 2040. From 2025, stand-alone fossil fuel boilers will no longer receive subsidies, but hybrid heating systems that use renewable energy will be eligible for financial incentives. Editor/Xu Shengpeng
Germany's Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger has announced a new fusion research funding program aimed at paving the way for the construction of the first fusion power plant in Germany by 2040. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has long supported fusion research at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching and Greifswald, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Jurich Research Centre (FZJ). "This institutional funding is complemented by the second pillar of the new Project Funding Scheme," the ministry said. "The project funding aims to advance the technologies, components and materials required for fusion power plants in the first phase by the early 2030s. The second phase focuses on integration into the power plant design. The funding program is open to technology and addresses so-called magnetic confinement and laser fusion technology." In order to achieve the construction of fusion power stations as soon as possible, the program is essentially application-oriented collaborative research as a form of public-private partnership. Projects on specific sub-technologies will be carried out jointly by research institutions, universities and industry. This allows new findings from the research to be applied at an early stage and know-how to be transferred to domestic industries for further use, the ministry said. Editor/Xu Shengpeng