Ultra-High Voltage Global Energy Internet
This report investigates China's proposal for a Global Energy Interconnection (GEI), an eighteen-line ultra-high voltage (UHV) network linking over 80 countries with renewable energy and smart-grid infrastructure. UHV power transmission is a major innovation in the world's energy field in the new century. It solves the difficulties of power transmission in super-large capacity over ultra-long distances, improves power development mode from on-site balance to optimal allocation in a larger scope, and lays a. In 2021, China's National Energy Administration (NEA) published its new plan to increase renewable power purchase by regional grid firms to 40% by 2030, to facilitate China's "carbon neutral" by 2060 and raise share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 25%" by 2030 target. The project represents a major geopolitical development with profound implications.
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