2. Where is Anhui?
• Yangtze River Delta
• Across basins of the
Yangtze River and the Huai River
• Part of the North China Plain
• Population: 69.02 million (2012)
• Ample crop production and coal
resources
3. Energy Obstacles
• High-carbon-based energy structure
• “Anhui Electricity to the East” Program
• Pollution (air, water, soil…) caused by coal mining
4. Energy Obstacles
• Much of its 861 industrial development plans deal with coal:
E.g., investigate in the necessity to expand the Anqing to Hefei
oil pipeline to reduce transportation costs
• Pressure from the central:
The Twelfth Five-Year plan expects coal consumption to
gradually decrease, with natural gas to double and new energy
to increase significantly
• Anhui plans to achieve 6% or more new energy consumption
by 2015
5. Potential Renewable Energy?
• Annual rainfall 800-1800mm
• Mountains and valleys
Hydropower (26.4 billion kwh)
Wind power (7.5 billion kwh)
• Several regions possess fields with water temperature
Geothermal (1/10 use -> save 7.54 billion kwh)
higher than 25℃
• Annual cereal output > 30 million tonnes
Biomass power
290.4 billion kwh
• Animal manures, forest biological resources, domestic
waste…
http://wenku.baidu.com/view/fcccc30f6c85ec3a86c2c505.html
6. Current Situation on RE Utilization
• Hydropower (plants): electricity production of 18.10 billion kwh
• Geothermal: small-scale
• Wind power: First wind power project
launched in 2010 in Chuzhou city
• Biomass power: huge resource (agricultural residues)
huge demand (biomass power plants)
huge problem
http://www.climate-connect.co.uk/Home/sites/default/files/Anhui%20Overview%20Climate%20Connect.pdf
7. Biomass Power Plant in Anhui
http://cdm.unfccc.int/filestorage/u/g/BSF2VUAZ5DITX7MC4HRQN683WY1OJL.pdf/6846%20PDD%2025%20Jul%2012.pdf?t=aU98bXV1dHA3fDCe9Q70HWlYM05yTD5O3E0K
8. Problems with Biomass Power
• Collect
Unwillingness of the farmers (straw collectors)
• Transportation
Inefficiency
• Storage
Cost
Space
9. Possible Solutions
• Biomass batteries
Reactions taking place in the biomass degradation:
http://www.academia.edu/2514212/Novel_Design_of_Multi-Chambered_Biomass_Battery
Biomass fuel cell
http://www.ballard.com/files/PDF/White_Papers/Biomass_to_FC_Power_-_White_Paper_-_Feb_2013.pdf
10. Conclusion
• Renewable energy development in Anhui still have
a bright future
• More funding and research is needed
• Avoid “Tragedy of the Commons”
