Source: Inner Mongolia Daily
As the share of renewable energy in Inner Mongolia’s power mix continues to grow, insufficient consumption capacity has emerged as a major bottleneck for the region’s modern energy economy. In a recent interview, an official from the Inner Mongolia Energy Bureau stated that in 2025, the region will pursue a dual strategy of boosting local consumption and expanding outbound power transmission, ensuring that the utilization rate of new energy remains above 90%.
Expanding Local Consumption
To enhance local renewable energy consumption, Inner Mongolia plans to broaden green power trading, refine trading mechanisms, and improve market-based policies. The region is accelerating the adoption of green electricity in strategic industries and industrial projects, while pushing forward key cross-regional energy cooperation projects, including the Xing’an League-to-Tongliao transmission, Baotou’s north-to-south power connection, and the Alxa-to-Wuhai grid integration initiative.
Additionally, Inner Mongolia is actively promoting the development of zero-carbon and low-carbon industrial parks, exploring direct green power supply models, and advancing integrated projects that combine power generation, grid distribution, electricity load management, and energy storage. The region is also working to integrate renewable energy with transportation and construction sectors, with plans to introduce policies that drive the "New Energy+" industrial transformation. Key initiatives include:
· Expanding the use of green electricity in alloy material production in cities such as Ulanqab and Ordos.
· Advancing green computing and energy-efficient data processing applications in Hohhot and Ulanqab.
· Applying to become a national demonstration city for green energy-driven industrial transformation.
With these efforts, Inner Mongolia aims to consume over 200 billion kWh of locally generated renewable electricity in 2025.
Enhancing Outbound Power Transmission
In parallel, Inner Mongolia is working to increase its outbound transmission capacity to supply green electricity to other provinces. Efforts include:
· Optimizing the use of existing transmission corridors, such as the Shanghai Miao–Shandong and Xilin Gol–Taizhou routes.
· Accelerating the development of transmission lines for the "desert, gobi and wasteland" mega renewable energy base, a large-scale project spanning desert regions.
· Strengthening coordination with national ministries and agencies to implement the cooperation agreement between the Inner Mongolia government and the State Grid Corporation of China.
By the end of 2025, Inner Mongolia aims to: Begin construction on the Western Inner Mongolia-to-Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei transmission corridor. Launch the Tengger Desert-to-Jiangxi and Kubuqi Desert-to-Jiangsu transmission lines. Plan and secure approvals for additional "desert, gobi and wasteland" mega base projects. Through these initiatives, the region targets 800 billion kWh of outbound renewable energy transmission in 2025, including over 150 billion kWh of green electricity delivered to Beijing.
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