Original title: The stable operation of the national carbon market in 2021 will inject vitality into the low-carbon transition. Source: Xinhua Finance
The national carbon market opened on July 16 this year and has been operating smoothly until the end of the year. As the deadline for the first compliance period of the national carbon market approaches, carbon trading has become increasingly active. The steady development of the national carbon market is gradually heating up low-carbon concepts such as carbon management and carbon technology. Looking to the future, as the practice of anchoring the “dual carbon” goal continues and steadily advances, a broader new vision of green development will be opened.
The first performance cycle runs smoothly and market activity is increasing day by day
At the regular press conference held by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on December 23, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Liu Youbin, said that since the launch of the national carbon market, the overall operation has been stable, the awareness of corporate emission reduction has continued to increase, and market activity has steadily increased. .
The reporter learned from the Shanghai Environmental Energy Exchange, the trading operation and maintenance unit of the national carbon market, that as of December 29, 2021, the cumulative trading volume of the national carbon market carbon emission allowance (CEA) was 165 million tons, and the cumulative trading volume was 6.931 billion. Yuan.
It is worth noting that as the compliance deadline approaches, the national carbon market has become increasingly active. According to the notice from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, key emission units that are included in the first compliance cycle of the national carbon market should pay their carbon emission quotas from 2019 to 2020 to the provincial ecological and environmental authorities before December 31.
According to data from the Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange, since December, the national carbon market has had 24 consecutive trading days with a single daily turnover of more than 100 million yuan, and a total monthly turnover of more than 100 million tons, exceeding the total trading volume of the previous five months. The average daily trading volume in December exceeded 6 million tons.
Analysts believe that overall, the current trading performance of the national carbon market does not reflect its potential, and the future carbon market still has broad room for development.
From “one account” to “two accounts”, the carbon market continues to inject vitality into the low-carbon transformation of the industry
A person in charge of a Shanghai Petroleum Refining and Chemical Company said that in the past, the company was only regarded as a “money” account, but now there is a “carbon” account. If you want to calculate the new account, you must follow the low-carbon road to the end. From “one account” to “two accounts”, on the road to change, the role of the national carbon market as an important policy tool for promoting carbon peaks and carbon neutrality has initially emerged. This big market is continuing to inject vitality into the low-carbon transformation of the industry .
The power generation industry is the first industry to be included in the national carbon market. Prior to this, many power generation companies were “unsure” how much carbon they emitted in real time, and the official launch of the national carbon market for online trading also gave them a sense of “carbon management”. In order to solve the problem of lagging behind the carbon emission accounting and monitoring system of power generation enterprises, many enterprises have launched technological research. State Grid Hubei Provincial Electric Power Co., Ltd. Electric Power Research Institute independently developed a set of carbon emission online monitoring system, which can improve the carbon emission calculation accuracy of generator sets, monitor carbon emissions in real time, and guide power generation companies to formulate targeted carbon reduction measures.
This “carbon” account is also forcing companies to continue to make technological improvements. As one of the first coal-fired power companies to participate in carbon market transactions, Shanghai Waigaoqiao No. 3 Power Plant has continuously carried out technological innovations, constantly refreshing the lowest coal consumption record, and “saving” carbon allowances with new technologies, bringing “carbon” to the company. income”.
Shi Min, general manager of Shanghai Waigaoqiao No. 3 Power Plant, said that the basic national conditions of coal-based power means that my country’s green energy development must be multi-dimensional. On the one hand, it is necessary to expand the proportion of clean energy utilization, and on the other hand, it is necessary to promote the clean and efficient use of coal. “As the first power plant to break through the minimum coal consumption threshold of 280g/kWh, this clean and efficient coal-burning technology is now being promoted and applied in many power plants.”
New technologies and new platforms continue to emerge for a long time to harvest mature fruits
Shanghai Waigaoqiao No. 3 Power Plant is conducting research and development on carbon capture technology with East China University of Science and Technology, trying to capture carbon dioxide and react with hydrogen to produceMethanolAt present, the project has entered the pilot stage with an annual output of 10,000 tons; Sinopec has more than 30,000 gas stations and is actively deploying the hydrogen energy industry. It plans to build 1,000 hydrogen refueling stations during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period. Station; In September 2021, the national green power trading pilot program was launched. More than 10 provinces and cities, and hundreds of household electricity companies have purchased green power from new energy power generation companies in various places…
New technologies and new platforms continue to emerge, promoting the gradual maturity of the new national carbon trading market.
“We still have a long way to go to achieve the’dual carbon’ goal. As an energy technology company, we are investing, cultivating, and incubating various advanced technologies for carbon reduction, carbon control, and carbon sequestration.” Sun Vision, Vice President of Vision Intelligence Jie said frankly, “However, these technologies are still in the early stage of research and development, and we still need to continue to invest and tackle key problems, and then provide application scenarios to support them, so that we can harvest mature fruits with long-term efforts.”
Lai Xiaoming, chairman of the Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange, said that the domestic carbon trading market is still in its infancy. In the future, construction work will be carried out from multiple aspects: expanding market coverage from a single industry to other key emission industries; and promoting the entry of investment institutions as soon as possible Carbon market; accelerate the promotion of enterprises to improve carbon management capabilities and establish a carbon management system; accelerate the diversified innovation of domestic carbon market products; promote the more market-oriented operation of the primary market and distribution market; actively explore some of the carbon trading market and other markets Linkage.
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