On October 30, at a press conference held by the National Energy Administration, Dong Wancheng, deputy director of the Development Planning Department of the National Energy Administration, answered reporters'questions about the characteristics of our country's energy investment. Dong Wancheng, deputy director of the Development Planning Department of
the State Energy Administration, said that according to monitoring, in the first eight months of this year, investment in key energy projects increased by 20.7% year-on-year, injecting momentum and vitality into high-quality economic and social development. Generally speaking, energy investment and construction present the following characteristics.
First, the national energy investment has maintained a relatively rapid growth trend. In the field of energy, we should actively expand effective investment, vigorously and orderly promote the construction of major infrastructure and new infrastructure, and maintain a high level of investment growth. Regionally, the investment in the eastern, central and western regions increased by 19.3%, 22.3% and 22.1% respectively. At different levels, the construction of national projects continued to advance, and investment in projects at and below the provincial level maintained a relatively rapid growth. The investment of central enterprises has maintained a rapid growth momentum, and the investment of private enterprises has continued to increase.
Second, investment in non-fossil energy power generation is growing well. In the first eight months, investment in key non-fossil energy projects accounted for more than 40% of the country's total energy investment. The investment in solar power generation exceeded 350 billion yuan, of which the investment in Hubei, Guangdong, Yunnan and Xinjiang provinces (regions) increased by more than 200% year on year. A number of million-kilowatt wind power base projects in Inner Mongolia have been steadily promoted. Nuclear power projects under construction in Guangdong, Hainan and Fujian have been comprehensively promoted. Key hydropower projects such as Shuangjiangkou and Maerdang have entered the peak period of civil construction.
The three is the steady release of investment in energy network infrastructure. Jinshang-Hubei and Longdong-Shandong UHVDC projects have been comprehensively promoted, and three new UHVDC projects, Zhangbei-Shengli, Ningxia-Hunan and Hami-Chongqing, have accelerated the formation of effective investment. The construction and interconnection of oil and gas backbone pipelines have been continuously strengthened. The release of investment in the construction of LNG receiving stations in Guangdong has been accelerated, and a number of LNG receiving stations under construction in the Bohai Rim region have generally entered the end of construction.
Fourth, accelerate the release of investment in new forms of energy. The amount of comprehensive energy investment completed has increased rapidly, and a number of demonstration projects of source-network-load-storage integration and multi-energy complementarity in Xinjiang and Qinghai have been comprehensively promoted. Investment in electrochemical energy storage projects in Hunan, Gansu and Xinjiang has been accelerated. The layout of public charging piles in the eastern and central regions continued to advance. A number of hydrogen energy production, storage and transportation projects in Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Hubei and Shandong have accelerated the formation of physical workload.