By 2030, my country’s charging infrastructure will exceed 40 million

China News Service, November 6th. The National Development and Reform Commission held a series of press conferences for the "15th Five-Year Plan" on the morning of the 6th to introduce the situation of building a secure foundation. Ge Ju, deputy director of the Development Planning Department of the National Energy Administration, said at the meeting that the layout and construction of charging and swapping infrastructure will be promoted with high quality and a charging infrastructure network will be built in urban areas, highway lines, and rural spots. By 2030, there will be more than 40 million charging infrastructures, forming a charging service capacity to support more than 110 million electric vehicles.

At the meeting, a reporter asked whether electrification and other fuel substitutions are considered important ways to reduce oil and gas risks. What are the country’s considerations in promoting substitution of oil and gas consumption in key areas? What are the priorities of the “15th Five-Year Plan”?

Ge Ju said in this regard that my country's current oil and gas consumption accounts for about one-third of final energy consumption, mainly concentrated in transportation, industry and other fields, and there is still considerable room for substitution. Promoting application substitution of electric energy, hydrogen energy, green fuels, etc. is not only an important way to reduce the risk of oil and gas imports and improve independent support capabilities, but also an inevitable requirement to promote the transformation of the energy structure and help achieve the "double carbon" goal. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, relevant policy mechanisms will be improved and multiple measures will be taken to promote oil and gas consumption substitution, mainly the "three substitutions".

One is electric energy substitution. Electrification is currently the most mature and clean alternative way to use energy, and it is also an effective way to reduce oil consumption demand. In recent years, my country's new energy vehicle development has attracted worldwide attention. In the first three quarters of this year, the sales penetration rate of new energy vehicles reached 53.6%, and the scale of oil and gas substitution continues to increase. In the next step, electric energy substitution will continue to be further promoted. By 2030, the proportion of electric energy in my country's terminal energy consumption will increase to about 35%. In the field of transportation, we will promote the layout and construction of charging and swapping infrastructure with high quality and build a charging infrastructure network with urban surface, highway linear and rural point layout. By 2030, there will be more than 40 million charging infrastructures, forming a charging service capacity to support more than 110 million electric vehicles.

The second is hydrogen energy and green fuel substitution. On the one hand, we will strengthen the overall layout of the industry and systematically promote the large-scale development of hydrogen energy, green methanol, green ammonia, green aviation fuel and other green fuel industries, focusing on the construction of a number of green hydrogen ammonia alcohol production projects in the Northeast, the "Jizi Bend" of the Yellow River, northern North China, and the northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains. On the other hand, we should innovate and expand the application space, develop green power direct-connected hydrogen production, renewable energy off-grid hydrogen production and other models according to local conditions, carry out high-quality hydrogen energy comprehensive application pilots, promote the renewable energy hydrogen production scale to reach 2 million tons in 2030, and expand the application of hydrogen energy and green fuels in the fields of power generation, transportation, chemical industry and metallurgy, and large-scale energy storage.

The third is coal-to-oil and gas substitution. Based on my country's resource endowment, which is rich in coal but poor in oil and gas, we will make good use of the coal "household", strengthen coal-to-oil and gas production capacity and technical reserves, and solidly promote the construction of coal-to-oil and gas strategic bases such as Ordos in Inner Mongolia, Yulin in Shaanxi, Zhundong in Xinjiang, and Hami in Xinjiang.