Smart Grid as a Key Enabler for China’s Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality Targets

Abstract

In the context of the dual carbon goal, the intelligent transformation and upgrading of China’s power system, as an important field of carbon emissions, is of great significance for achieving the dual carbon goal. The traditional power system has been difficult to adapt to the current economic and social transformation of China’s high-quality development due to its low energy efficiency, large carbon emissions, lack of intelligence and other defects, which has become the bottleneck to achieve the dual carbon goal. The smart grid has the advantages of strong renewable energy consumption capacity, high proportion of clean energy generation and intelligent management, so promoting the intelligent upgrading of China’s power system can effectively promote the transformation of the power industry to low-carbon. This paper analyzes several challenges in the process of China’s smart grid construction. At the same time, combined with the actual situation of China and the existing domestic measures to deal with these challenges, the actual benefits of these measures are analyzed and discussed, providing a possible direction for the further construction of China’s smart grid.