Build a flexible, safe and clean power system

Organizers

International Society for Energy Transition Studies

Time：APril 6，2023，17:00-18:30 (Beijing Time)

Venue:voovmeeting

meetingID:326-661-379

Bilibili link : http://live.bilibili.com/27512947

1.Introduction

The conference will focus on the following questions: What technology solutions can be used to improve the flexibility of the power system in China? What are the main issues with adopting these flexible technologies in terms of technological economy, market and regulation? And more importantly, how do you solve these problems?

2.Background

The clean transformation of China’s power sector has accelerated over the past decade, with a surge in renewable energy generation. China is on track to achieve a “dual-carbon” goal of peaking carbon by 2030 and being carbon neutral by 2060, which means this energy transition is likely to deepen in the coming years. As a result, weather-dependent and volatile renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar and hydropower, will gradually replace coal at the heart of China’s power system.

However, the clean power transition not only means building more renewable energy projects, but also requires the necessary reconfiguration of the entire power system to support the uptake of renewable electricity. System flexibility, the ability of a system to reliably manage power supply and demand fluctuations at reasonable cost, is the key to achieving this system reset process. The need to change the system is all the more remarkable given that the Chinese power system was not built around the highly volatile characteristics of renewable energy, and the system design is difficult to adapt to the dynamic balance of renewable energy in large volumes of generation. China is not the only country facing the test of transition, but the magnitude of the transformation required is far greater.

As the power transition deepens, China will need to invest heavily in its power system, especially in flexible technologies. In this context, the conference will focus on the following questions: What technology solutions can be used to improve the flexibility of the power system in China? What are the main issues with adopting these flexible technologies in terms of technological economy, market and regulation? And more importantly, how do you solve these problems?

3. Agenda