"15th Five-Year Plan" for the Construction of a New Energy System
The "15th Five-Year Plan" for the Construction of a New Energy System establishes a highly calibrated framework to accelerate China's transition toward clean power while safeguarding resource security. This blueprint orchestrates a major scale-up across macro energy hubs, shifting capacities to renewable platforms and deepening energy-industry synergies, all while maintaining strict baselines for fossil fuel supply guarantees.
Energy Prod. Cap Binding
5.13 ➔ 5.80 Bl tce
Total Power Cap Expected
3,890 ➔ 5,400 GW
Non-Fossil Cons. Share Binding
21.7% ➔ 25.0%
Non-Fossil Gen Share Expected
42.3% ➔ 50.0%
Carbon Reduc./Gen Unit ① Binding
> 10% (By 2030)
Energy Savings (Key) Expected
> 150 Mn tce
Elec. Share (Final Cons.) Expected
30.0% ➔ 35.0%
W-E Power Trans. Cap Expected
340 ➔ > 420 GW
Power Reg. Cap ② Expected
> 40% Growth
Demand Response Cap Expected
> 3% ➔ > 5%
PCT Patent Growth Expected
> 5% (Annually)
FOAK Tech Demos Expected
> 100 Units
Notes:
① Calculated as the ratio of total CO2 emissions from the power sector to the comprehensive gross power generation.
② Represents the combined regulation capacity of power sources and energy storage systems.
① Calculated as the ratio of total CO2 emissions from the power sector to the comprehensive gross power generation.
② Represents the combined regulation capacity of power sources and energy storage systems.
1. Non-Fossil Energy Hubs ▼
Implementing a 10-year capacity doubling initiative across five key zones:
- The "Three Norths" (North, Northeast, Northwest) wind and solar bases.
- Southwest integrated hydro-wind-solar bases.
- Coastal nuclear power bases.
- Offshore wind power bases.
- Distributed renewable energy centers.
2. Fossil Fuel Production Centers ▼
- Coal: Optimizing layout by prioritizing five major mega-bases: Shanxi, Western Inner Mongolia (Mengxi), Eastern Inner Mongolia (Mengdong), Northern Shaanxi (Shaanbei), and Xinjiang. Maintaining replacement capacity in central and eastern regions.
- Oil & Gas: Strengthening strategic guarantee bases in key basins, primarily Ordos, Bohai Bay, Sichuan-Chongqing, Tarim, and Songliao. Advancing coalbed methane (CBM) development in the eastern Ordos Basin.
3. Energy-Industry Synergy & Consumption ▼
- Resource-Rich Regions: Integrating power generation with advanced manufacturing, computing, and hydrogen production to keep resource utilization local.
- Demand Centers (East): Aiming for 70% of the new energy consumption increment during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period to be met by local non-fossil energy production and newly added local supporting power sources.
4. Backbone Corridors (Transport & Transmission) ▼
- Power: Expanding the West-to-East power transmission network from the "Three Norths" and Southwest to coastal load centers, adding over 80 GW of new capacity.
- Coal Logistics: Enhancing the West-to-East and North-to-South framework (e.g., Tangbao, Watang-Rizhao, Haoji, Shuohuang railways). Expanding Xinjiang’s outward coal transport via a "One Axis, Two Wings, Multi-modal" layout.
- Oil & Gas: Adding 20,000 km to the national pipeline network, reinforcing systems like the West-to-East and Sichuan-to-East pipelines.
5. Energy Import Corridors ▼
Consolidating and expanding the four major strategic oil and gas import corridors (Northeast, Northwest, Southwest, and Offshore), alongside stabilizing the coal import corridor frameworks.
1. Coal Supply Guarantee Bases ▼
Focusing on the construction of highly modernized, large-scale coal mines and the integrated development of contiguous mining areas across:
- Shanxi: Datong, Hebaopian, Liliu, Huodong, Xishan, Xiangning.
- Western Inner Mongolia: Xinjie Taigemiao, Tarangaole, Nalinxili, Central Junggar, Nalinhe.
- Eastern Inner Mongolia: Huolinhe, Baorixile, Yimin.
- Northern Shaanxi: Yushen, Yuheng, Shenfu, Fugu.
- Xinjiang: Zhundong, Tuha, Ili.
2. Oil & Gas Reserves ▼
- Petroleum: Construction of major national petroleum reserve projects.
- Natural Gas Storage: Developing key facilities in Daqing Shengping, Changqing Yulin Leilongwan, Southwest Wanshunchang, and Xinjiang Baolang, alongside salt cavern storage in Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, and Hubei.
3. Pipeline Network Expansion ▼
- Accelerating the construction of the Sichuan-to-East Gas Pipeline II.
- Advancing the Hulin–Changchun–Shijiazhuang–Puyang–Anqing pipeline, the Mohe–Daqing–Changling segment of the China-Russia Eastern Pipeline duplication, and the Jiangsu-Anhui-Henan natural gas networks.
- Initiating preliminary work for the Tongliang–Zunyi–Qujing pipeline.