Abstract
Currently, the world is confronted with a series of challenges including resource shortage, climate change, environment pollution and energy poverty, which are rooted in the humanity’s deep dependence on and large-scale consumption of fossil energy. To tackle with those challenges is an urgent task for realizing sustainable development. The Global Energy Interconnection (GEI) is a clean energy-dominant, electricity-centered, interconnected and shared modern energy system. It is an important platform for large-scale development, transmission and utilization of clean energy resources at a global level, promoting the global energy transition characterized by cleaning, decarbonization, electrification and networking. The GEI has provided a scientific, novel and systematic solution to implement Agenda 2030 as well as the Paris Agreement. Focusing on the scope of clean transition and sustainable development, this paper has implemented qualitative and quantitative methods based on historic data. The global power demand and supply has been forecasted. Based on global clean energy resources endowments and distribution, a global main clean energy bases layout and generation planning optimization has been proposed. Later in this paper, the global power flow under the GEI scenario and corresponding GEI backbone grid has been explored and proposed. Finally, based on a preliminary investment estimation, the comprehensive benefits of building the GEI have been analyzed.
Highlights
In 2020, the COVID 19 virus has caused huge disasters to people all over the world, and it has sounded the alarm: mankind and the planet have entered an era of ‘crisisridden’
With breakthroughs in clean energy technologies, the economic feasibility of implementing the technologies has been greatly improved, and replacing fossil energy with clean energy is becoming an important trend in the global energy development
Large-scale development and efficient use of global clean energy resources can be achieved through coordinating the distribution and demand of clean energy in either centralized or distributed methods
Summary
In 2020, the COVID 19 virus has caused huge disasters to people all over the world, and it has sounded the alarm: mankind and the planet have entered an era of ‘crisisridden’. The climate and environmental crisis will accelerate various natural crises and ecological crises, and cause social crises such as food shortages and conflicts and wars It is the biggest potential risk faced by all countries. Comprehensive analysis of global economic and social, energy, power, climate and environmental data, GEIDCO has fully studied relevant development strategy plans and policies of government departments of various countries, widely absorbed research results of relevant international organizations, institutions and enterprises, and applied research methods, models and tools to conduct in-depth research on the development vision, path and major issues of the GEI.
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