Emerging Energy Plan will launch capital in September

Recently, it was revealed that the "New Energy Industry Development Plan" will be released in September. Industry insiders expect that the “New Energy Industry Development Plan” will support the development of the new energy industry from various aspects such as policy and capital investment.

At present, new energy has received unprecedented attention. First, the preparation of the "long-term development plan for renewable energy" has been basically completed. Recently, a report from the Economic Forecasting Department of the National Information Center showed that the long-awaited new energy industry development plan has entered the final approval stage after several changes and improvements, and is expected to be announced in September.

According to reports, the planning period for the new development plan is 2011-2020. During the planning period, effective measures will be taken to increase the degree of festivals, increase the utilization of traditional energy sources, promote the development of alternative industries, and increase the use of natural gas and other clean energy resources. With the implementation of the plan, it will directly increase investment by 5 trillion yuan, and increase the output value by 1.5 trillion yuan each year.

In its report, the U.S. think tank Pew Research Center stated that in 2009, the world’s investment in new energy sources exceeded US$162 billion, of which China was topped with US$36.4 billion. The US Department of Commerce predicts that by 2020 China's new energy market will reach 100 billion U.S. dollars.

He Jun, an advanced researcher at Ampang Consulting, said that foreign forecasts appear to be conservative. The market outlook for China's new energy industry is, in the industry's view, a big deal that will not fail for the foreseeable future.

According to Chang Jiangbing, Secretary of the Department of Planning and Development of the National Energy Administration, during the "Energy Economic Situation in the First Half of 2010" routinely organized by the National Energy Administration, the "New Energy Industry Development Plan" includes not only nuclear power, wind power, and solar power. The development and utilization of biomass energy and other fields also include new contents of upgrading traditional energy sources such as clean coal, smart grid, distributed energy, and new automotive energy.

The outlook for the new energy industry is very good, which has attracted a large number of domestic and foreign capital inflows. However, the domestic chain of new energy industry has not been completely opened up. Both investment and supporting policies have the problem of unbalanced distribution of resources. The development of the domestic new energy industry is overly concentrated in the upstream sector. Under the impetus of capital, the upstream industry sector is rapidly enlarged, causing excess production capacity, and the downstream applications and consumption links are seriously impeded, hindering the development of the entire industry.

Lin Boqiang, director of the China Energy Economic Research Center at Xiamen University, said that the new energy development model is basically the same as that of other countries. The development of China's new energy industry will depend, to a great extent, on the government's policy strength at least for a long time to come.

Lin Boqiang believes that the new energy plan must emphasize corresponding supporting policies, including creating a good institutional environment for the development of new technologies and new energy sources, protecting intellectual property rights, encouraging innovation, and guiding the flow of talents and capital to energy-saving technologies and new energy sources. The new energy plan should further develop energy bills that protect and guide the development of new technologies and new energy sources, further improve the capital market, and create convenient financing conditions for environmental protection, energy conservation, and new energy companies.

Not only that, the government can also directly increase the competitiveness of new energy by subsidizing new energy sources. Or through the reform of conventional energy prices, gradually increase the price of conventional energy, indirectly improve the competitiveness of new energy.