Since the formal adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, the international community and commercial organizations have committed to the transition to 100% renewable energy. 47 climate-fragile countries (CVFs) pledged to achieve 100% by 2050 during the Marrakech climate conference. Renewable energy supply. Due to the significant decrease in global PV and wind power costs, the growth of renewable energy is booming. At the end of 2016, the proportion of global renewable energy generation has reached about 1/4, and the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that ratio by 2040. Will rise to 40%. As of February 2018, more than 100 cities worldwide have achieved at least 70% of their electricity demand from renewable energy sources.
The Paris Agreement states that before the end of the century, all countries jointly controlled the global average temperature rise to less than 2°C before industrialization, and worked hard to control the temperature rise within 1.5°C. With this guidance, one The low-carbon future driven by renewable energy is gradually becoming clear. Today, the Green Institute of Environmental Public Welfare Institutions and Minkyu News jointly launched the Atlas, trying to sort out the global supply of renewable energy from the national, regional and corporate levels. The progress of transformation, and the multiple benefits it brings.
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Global Renewable Energy Transformation Progress
Latin America Costa Rica
300 days long renewable energy supply for renewable energy
Costa Rica is rich in natural resources in Latin America and has a population of about 5 million. Affected by the monsoon, heavy precipitation from June to August each year brings abundant hydropower resources to the country. Of the electricity consumed in the country in 2017, only hydraulic power is used. Power generation accounts for nearly 80% of total power generation, wind and geothermal energy each contribute 10%, and biomass and solar energy add less than 1%. As early as 2007, CO2 set a goal of achieving carbon neutrality in 2021, which is expected to become The world’s first country to achieve carbon neutrality. According to data from Costa Rica National Telecommunications Corporation, from the beginning of January 2017 to November 22, 2017, Costa Rica’s nationwide use of electricity for 300 consecutive days completely came from renewable energy, breaking the country’s The record of 100% renewable energy generation for 299 consecutive days in 2015. For Latin American countries and African countries similar to Costa Rica, the experience of achieving 100% of renewable energy power generation has implications for him.
As of the end of 2016, Costa Rica’s total installed hydropower reached 2.12GW (1GW=1000MW)
Costa Rica Scenery Energy. ecoticias illustration
Europe Portugal
Continuous 107 hours renewable energy supply
Portugal is strongly influenced by the European Union's 2020 renewable energy strategy, and it is energetically developing clean energy. From 2013 to 2016, its installed wind power capacity has increased by 550 MW. During this period, renewable energy production in 2013 can only meet the country's 23% of electricity demand; by 2015, the proportion quickly rose to 48%, of which wind power accounts for nearly half of the renewable energy generation; in May 2016, the country’s electricity supply continued for more than four days in a row completely dependent on renewable energy. , Mainly supplied by the Iberian Peninsula, which has abundant clean energy resources. The Portuguese National Energy Network data analysis shows that from 6:45 on May 7th to 17:45 on the 11th, Portugal achieved within these 107 hours. Reliance on wind power, solar power and hydropower supply. European wind energy expert Oliver Joy said that wind power could meet Europe's 1/4 electricity demand in the next 15 years.
Fans standing on the island of Madeira, Portugal. Flickr illustration
Europe Germany
Achieve for the first time in history the first 100% renewable energy generation
Throughout 2017, Germany’s renewable energy production reached new heights, driven by a significant increase in wind power generation, and met more than one-third of the electricity demand. On April 30th, 90% of the country’s electricity use was renewable. Energy supply, set a new record for renewable energy use in 2017.
From 3:00 a.m. to 6.00 a.m. on January 1, 2018, under the combination of strong winds and low demand, Germany briefly achieved 100% renewable energy for the first time in history. Only wind power has met the 85% electricity demand in the country, and the rest It will be supplemented by hydropower and biomass power generation. Reina Barker, State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, said that no one had expected that Germany could achieve this goal in the early morning of a winter morning. After all, most experts insist that it is extremely extreme. It is possible to achieve this goal on a sunny and windy spring day.
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Europe United Kingdom
For the first time in 135 years in the UK, coal-free power generation
Since the 18th century, coal has always played an important role in the history of energy consumption in the UK, and it cast the economic miracle of the British industrial revolution. However, due to the rapid development of renewable energy, the efficiency of coal-fired power plants has declined. Since 2012, the United Kingdom has gradually closed down. 70% of coal-fired power plants are converted to use biomass to generate electricity, and the last Shamian coal mine was closed in December 2015, resulting in a significant decline in coal consumption in the UK in recent years, and coal-fired power generation as a percentage of total generation from 2012 The 40% of the year rapidly dropped to 9% in 2016. In May 2016, the UK’s coal power generation dropped to zero for the first time, but it only lasted for several hours.
Only one year later, on April 21, 2017, the United Kingdom achieved zero-day coal-fired power generation for the first time in 135 years. This has become a watershed for the energy transition in the UK. The first country to use coal-fired power will be the first to completely Eliminating coal-fired large economies.
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China Qinghai Province
Create the World's First New Record of Clean Energy Operation for Power Grids
Qinghai Province is the source of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Lancang River. The elevation is high, and the hydropower and solar energy resources are abundant. Hydropower and photovoltaic have become the first and second largest power supply in Qinghai Power Grid. Since the “Twelfth Five-Year”, Qinghai Photovoltaic Industry has averaged 1,000 annually. Megawatts have an orderly growth rate with an average annual growth rate of 58%. As of the end of May 2017, Qinghai Power Grid installed 1.94 GW of renewable energy such as hydropower, photovoltaic and wind power, accounting for 82.8% of the province’s total installed capacity of electricity.
At 0:00 on June 17, 2017 to 00:00 on the 24th, Qinghai Province used clean energy for the first time in seven days and 168 hours in the country. All electricity used in the province came from hydro, wind and solar power. In May 2016, when 107 hours of electricity supply was completely dependent on renewable energy, the time for power supply was longer, the proportion of photovoltaic power generation was higher, and the coordination between generation end and power end was more difficult. Qinghai Province Power Grid set the world’s first power grid The new record of clean energy operation has an exemplary significance for countries such as Central Asia.
Longyangxia hydro-optical photovoltaic power station in Qinghai. Visual China
100% Renewable Energy Drives Google Global Operations
Google is one of the first companies to directly purchase large-scale renewable energy power on a long-term basis, and it is also the world’s largest buyer of green power companies.
During the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, Google promised to increase the purchase of renewable energy by three times to 2015 by 2025 and join the 'RE100' initiative. This initiative is dedicated to helping companies achieve 100% renewable energy supply.
In 2016, Google announced that since 2017, the global data center and staff office building will achieve 100% renewable energy supply. A year later, this commitment was honored. On November 30, 2017, it was purchased in South Dakota respectively. After the power of three wind farms in Iowa and Oklahoma, Google has purchased more than 3 GW of solar and wind power. Google’s global demand for electricity has reached 100% from renewable energy sources. .
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Apple Inc
100% Renewable Energy powered Data Center Supports you every time you click 'Siri'
In 2010, renewable energy can only meet 16% of Apple's global power needs. By 2016, this proportion has risen to 96%. Among them, the ratio has reached 100 in 24 countries including the US, China, the United Kingdom and Australia. %. In addition, data centers with large power demand already fully realized 100% renewable energy power supply as early as 2013.
Like Google, Apple announced the addition of 'RE100' during the New York Climate Week in September 2016 and hopes to help companies achieve 100% renewable energy supply through cooperation with 'RE100'. Apple's process of low-carbon transformation in itself In addition, China is also promoting the greening of the supply chain. Apple and its suppliers plan to obtain 4 GW of clean electricity globally by 2020. To date, this target has been completed by about 3/4, and there are 16 companies. Suppliers promise 100% clean energy supply.
Solar roof of Apple's new headquarters
Developing Multiple Benefits of Renewable Energy
Pakistan Punjab Province
World's largest single solar power project with 2,600 football fields
The nation’s power shortage in Pakistan has severely constrained Pakistan’s economic and social development and improvement of people’s livelihood. By 2016, over one fourth of the country’s population will still be unable to obtain electricity supply. On April 20, 2015, leaders of China and Pakistan Under the witness of people, the photovoltaic power plant project in Punjab, Pakistan, which was built by ZTE Energy, was formally started. The project has a total scale of 900 megawatts and a total investment of more than 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. It will provide nearly 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity every year. Afterwards, it will become the single largest photovoltaic power generation project in the world. On June 8, 2016, the first phase of the 300 MW photovoltaic power plant of this power station was formally connected to the grid for power generation. As of mid-August 2017, the first phase of the 300 MW project will be self-contained. The cumulative power generation since the network was approximately 630 million kWh, which met the electricity demand of nearly 280,000 households. During the construction period, the project also created more than 3,000 jobs for the local people and provided Pakistani employees with skills training.
Pakistan Photovoltaic Power Plant Project
Southern Australia
South Australia will build the world's largest 'virtual' power plant
At the end of September 2016, a rare storm landed in South Australia, destroying some of the infrastructure and transmission towers, causing power system startup protection mechanisms to interrupt the supply of electricity, causing a statewide blackout and affecting 1.7 million residents. Since then, the Australian Government has been Looking for solutions to energy supply problems.
On February 4, 2018, the South Australian Government announced that it will cooperate with Tesla to establish the world's largest photovoltaic "virtual" power plant based on controlled, scaled distributed power generation with a capacity of 250 megawatts. In the next four years, the company will install solar panels and Tesla batteries for at least 50,000 households to generate electricity and electricity, and build a meshed 'virtual' power plant based on these equipment groups. The South Australian government stated that The 'virtual' power plant will help resolve the electricity crisis in the local area caused by extreme weather and will also sell surplus electricity to the National Grid of Australia, which is expected to reduce energy costs for local residents by 30%.
Tesla's energy storage array helps to make local power supply more stable. Viemo video capture
Philippines Ilocos Norte
Southeast Asia's Largest Wind Power Plant Ensures Power Supply by Wind
The power supply in the Philippines is unstable. A lot of power equipment was built in the 1980s and 1990s. The service period is long and the equipment is aging. For example, the second largest island of Mindanao suffers from blackouts and blackouts.
With the development of the Philippine economy and population growth, the demand for electricity will continue to increase in the future. In June 2013, the wind power project on the Burgos coast in Ilocos Norte Province, Luzon Island, invested by the Philippine Energy Development Company started construction. The project has a total scale of 150 megawatts and an investment of 450 million U.S. dollars. It is the largest wind power plant in Southeast Asia. The power plant was formally connected to power generation in November 2014. According to data from the Philippines Energy Development Corporation, the Burgos wind power project will be Luzon Island provides 223 GWh of electricity each year, enough to meet the needs of more than one million households. The wind power project provides a more stable guarantee for the Philippines' increasing electricity demand in the future.
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China Gansu Province
'Photovoltaic + Poverty Alleviation' to explore new mechanisms for poverty alleviation
In 2016, the Dougzhuang Village, Shidong Township, Gaolan County, Gansu Province launched a pilot project for a photovoltaic poverty alleviation project. Poor households in Doujiazhuang Village who set up temporary cards can sell the electricity generated by their own photovoltaic power plants to the State Grid. In the summer, about 40 degrees of electricity can be generated in one day and nearly 30 degrees in the winter. With the government subsidy, all the electricity generated by the house-type photovoltaic power station is incorporated into the national grid at a price of more than eight cents per kilowatt per year. Villagers can bring income ranging from 8,000 to 10,000 yuan, which is higher than the income from farming. These benefits also help these poor households get rid of the national poverty line of annual income of 2,300 yuan.
In 2017, 25 similar poverty-stricken villages in Gaolan County built 18 village-level power stations with a total installed capacity of nearly 1,500 kW. After the project is completed, nearly 300 poor households will have an average annual income of more than 3,000 yuan. Counties in Pingding County, Yangquan, Shanxi Province and Qiemo County, Bayinguoluo Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang Province similarly implemented similar PV poverty alleviation projects to support poor households to broaden their income sources and get rid of poverty. In addition, these projects will also be energy-saving and environmentally friendly. The concept is promoted to rural areas to promote the development of clean energy in rural areas.
Photovoltaic Power Generation Industry Introduced in Gaolan County, Gansu Province
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