The National Energy Administration, in a Q&A on implementation of the renewable
energy consumption minimum share and renewable electricity
responsibility-weighting rules, said compute facilities, 5G base stations and
charging infrastructure have seen explosive growth and will be an important
component of future power demand. NEA expects compute-related electricity use to
rise by more than 100 billion kWh per year during the 15th Five-Year Plan.
Including these sectors in renewable consumption assessments should speed
clean-power coverage of incremental demand and support nationwide green,
low-carbon development. NEA also identified polysilicon and lithium-ion battery
manufacturing as key links in the green energy industrial chain; bringing them
under assessment is intended to enforce integrated green-production requirements
for clean-energy-equipment makers and to foster coordinated upstream-downstream
decarbonisation across supply chains.
