[The installed capacity of solar power generation exceeded 600 million kW] The "2023-2024 National Electricity supply and Demand Analysis and Forecast Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") released by the China Electricity Council on the 30th shows that: as of the end of 2023, the installed capacity of the national full-caliber power generation capacity of 2.92 billion kilowatts, an increase of 13.9%. Per capita installed power generation capacity exceeded 1 kW/person at the end of 2014, and exceeded 2 kW/person for the first time in 2023. The share of coal power installed capacity fell to 39.9%, falling below 40% for the first time. The first time that the share of coal power installed capacity fell below 50% was at the end of 2020. In 2023, the green and low-carbon transformation trend of the power industry will continue to advance, and the development of new energy will achieve "three consecutive jumps". First of all, the total installed capacity of grid-connected wind power and solar power generation in the country has continuously broken through the 800 million kilowatts, 900 million kilowatts and 1 billion kilowatts from the end of 2022, and reached 1.05 billion kilowatts by the end of 2023, accounting for 36% of the total installed capacity, an increase of 6.4 percentage points year-on-year. Among them, the installed scale of grid-connected solar power generation increased from 390 million kilowatts at the end of 2022 to 610 million kilowatts at the end of 2023. Looking at investment, in 2023, the key survey enterprise power investment increased by 30.1% year-on-year, of which non-fossil energy power generation investment increased by 31.5% year-on-year, accounting for 89.2% of power investment. Investment in solar power, wind power, nuclear power, thermal power and hydropower increased by 38.7%, 27.5%, 20.8%, 15% and 13.7%, respectively. Editor/Xu Shengpeng

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• 2024.03.18 18:09
• [Europe: Install solar on the roof of all new residential buildings from 2030]
• 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

• 2024.03.18 18:09
• [Germany plans to build fusion power plants]
• 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