More than green electricity! It is time for waste incineration to return to service attributes
Green electricity controversy can not hide the good policy
In recent days, the policy spring breeze of the waste incineration industry continues, and the three departments of the National Development and Reform Commission mentioned in the "Environmental infrastructure construction level Improvement Action (2023-2025)" released on August 24 that "accelerate the completion of county-level domestic waste incineration capacity shortboard" and "actively and orderly promote the upgrading of existing incineration facilities". It is required to further improve the incineration capacity of domestic waste. Earlier, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the National Energy Administration issued the "Notice on doing a good job in promoting the full coverage of renewable energy green power Certificates to promote renewable energy electricity consumption" (Development and Reform Energy (2023) No. 1044, hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), which proposed that all the electricity produced by renewable energy power generation projects that have been documented nationwide will be issued green certificates. Achieve full coverage of green certification, including waste incineration power generation belonging to the category of biomass power generation.
In addition to the policy, it has also caused some controversy, whether "waste incineration power generation" can be included in the green electricity scope in the form of biomass power generation? Is "waste incineration power generation" really "green electricity"?
In response to the question "on whether domestic waste incineration and heating are biomass energy encouraged by the State" in 2021, the National Energy Administration mentioned that "according to the Renewable Energy Law," biomass energy refers to the use of natural plants, feces and urban and rural organic waste into energy." The organic part of domestic waste belongs to urban and rural organic waste. The energy converted from the incineration of organic parts of domestic waste belongs to the category of biomass energy."
The author believes that the official recognition of waste incineration power generation is mainly due to the results of the dual control of energy consumption and intensity, especially when the dual control of energy consumption is changed to the total amount of carbon emissions and intensity, waste incineration power generation is more in line with the government's policy orientation of controlling fossil energy consumption, and as an alternative to landfill, it can also effectively control carbon emissions. Based on this, waste incineration power generation will continue to be involved in green certificate trading with the title of renewable energy.
In addition to energy attributes, it is time for waste incineration to return to service attributes
Although there is still some controversy in the industry about whether some waste incineration power generation is green electricity, the release of the Notice is undoubtedly to expand a possible revenue path for waste incineration. Behind the controversy, we can see that waste incineration power generation profits from green certificate trading, in fact, further extending the energy properties of waste incineration. As an important means to realize the zero-landfill policy of raw waste, waste incineration treatment is domestic waste on one end, which is related to the people's livelihood and the urban ecological environment, and power products on the other end, which is an important source of revenue for waste incineration enterprises. For a long time, waste incineration power generation has been allocated in the category of "biomass power generation", which is developed and managed on the energy track.
After the waste incineration industry has experienced a simple scale, obtaining listing dividends and other historical stages, the next historical stage is bound to return to the essential attribute of "service", and realize the jump in value through vertical deep cultivation of waste incineration services. In the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the Development of Urban solid waste classification and treatment facilities, it is pointed out that waste incineration facilities are "an important part of urban environmental infrastructure", and it is not an infrastructure in other categories. The waste incineration facilities are classified in the category of "urban environmental infrastructure", in fact, to highlight the attributes of waste incineration to serve the city and the people's livelihood. As an environmental infrastructure, no matter how the external force of development changes, "service attribute" is its constant core, and only let waste incineration return to "service attribute", in order to better promote the harmless capacity of domestic waste construction, promote the construction of ecological civilization and the progress of social civilization. Of course, returning to the "service attribute" is not to completely abandon other attributes, but to examine the development of waste incineration projects with the concept of service, strengthen the operation management of projects with low carbonization, re-finement and intelligence, and enter the stage of high-quality development.
Under the service attribute, waste incineration has great potential
Since the development of waste incineration, it is no longer a simple means of end disposal of urban waste, but an environmental infrastructure that outputs its own green and low-carbon economic value and meets the people's demands for a green ecological environment. Under the new historical stage, garbage incineration should respond to the demands of the city and the public through "service", and achieve high-quality advancement of the industry with service.
(1) Services to achieve value-added waste incineration, so that waste incineration from the cost center to the value center.
(2) the spillover industry collaborative power waste incineration service value.
(3) increase the value of the waste incineration perception service attributes.
In addition, waste incineration can also enter the "reasonable income model" mentioned above, because the output of waste incineration is no longer only electricity products, but a series of services including resource products.
Epilogue
Nowadays, the outside world's valuation of waste incineration is at a low level, and waste incineration needs to return to the "service attribute" and realize the jump in industry value with the help of "service". In this process, waste incineration will also change from a backstop means of zero landfill of raw waste to an environmental infrastructure that serves the people's livelihood and the city, and the evaluation of waste incineration will also change from harmless classification to service classification. "Win the hearts of the people, the world", service classification will be completely user-oriented, only better serve the city and the people's livelihood, in order to get the recognition and support of the government and the public, waste incineration enterprises can also find self-improvement, sustainable development of a strong driving force, in the process of industrial development do not fall behind. So, in the new stage of historical development, who will become the industry tide? Let's wait and see!
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