Meta Data
Title in national language: 
生物质能发展“十三五”规划
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Draft Year: 
2016
Effective Start Year: 
2016
Effective End Year: 
2020
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Plan/Strategy
Economic Sector: 
Energy, Power, Other
Energy Types: 
Power, Renewable, Bioenergy
Issued by: 
National Energy Administration
Notes: 
No official English version available
Overall Summary: 
The policy analyses the international and domestic biomass energy development status, and clarifies the bioenergy development guidelines, principles, targets and tasks during the 13th Five-Year Plan period from 2016-2020.
Access
Clean cooking solutions: 
[...]promote the utilization of bioenergy for cooking and heating in rural areas.
Efficiency
EE transport standards : 
Upgrade biodiesel projects, improve product quality[...]. Establish and improve biodiesel product standard system, to promote the application of biodiesel in the field of transportation.
Renewable Energy
RE priorities: 
Main tasks: promote the construction of the National Natural Gas Demonstration County; speed up the progress of biological natural gas and commercialization; [...] establish and improve the industrial system for bioenergy;[...]
RE targets: 
By 2020, biomass utilization will be 58 million tce. Total biomass power generation installed capacity will be 15 million kilowatts, the annual generating capacity will be 90 billion kwh, of which agricultural and forestry biomass power generation will be 7 million kilowatts, urban solid waste power generation will be 7.5 million kilowatts, biogas power generation 500 thousand kilowatts; bio-natural gas utilization will reach 80 billion cubic meters; bio-liquid annual utilization 6 million tons; biomass briquettes annual utilization 30 million tons. ---By 2020, establish a certain scale of green low-carbon bio-natural gas industry, the annual output will reach 8 billion cubic meters, construct 160 bio-natural gas demonstration projects and ecological recycling agriculture demonstration projects. ---By 2020, biogas power generation installed capacity will be 500,000 kilowatts. ---By 2020, the annual utilization of bio-liquid fuels will be more than 6 million tons.
RE action plans: 
Steadily develop urban solid waste incineration power generation: considering the environmental protection, site selection and social stability risks, steadily promote the construction of municipal solid waste incineration power plants.[...] ---Develop biogas power generation according to local conditions: considering the layout of urban landfill site, establish landfill gas power generation project; combining with rural scale biogas project construction, establish or upgrade biogas power generation projects. Actively promote the integration of biogas power to urban and rural distribution grid network.
Environment
Pollution level targets, PM10, PM2.5, SOx, NOx: 
Accelerate the construction of large - scale advanced low-emission biomass fuel boiler. [...] sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide emissions should be no higher than 50㎎/m3 and 200㎎/m3 respectively[...] ---By 2020, biomass is estimated to replace about 58 million tons of fossil fuels, [...]with a reduction of 1.4 million tons of sulfur dioxide emissions, 0.44 million tons of nitrogen oxide emissions[...]
GHG emissions reduction targets: 
By 2020, biomass is estimated to replace about 58 million tons of fossil fuels, with an annual reduction of about 150 million tons of carbon dioxide[...]
Land use change for energy production purposes: 
Co-ordinate food security, food safety and energy security, expand moderately the ethanol production scale in the “food problem areas”, by using the mold corn, toxic wheat, and "cadmium rice" etc. In the main grain-producing provinces[...], establish biogas circular economy demonstration projects in accordance with “energy, agriculture, environmental protection" principle[...]
Investment
Energy sector investment priorities: 
By 2020, the new investment in biomass energy industry will be about 19.6 billion yuan. Among them, the investment for biomass power generation will be about 40 billion yuan, bio-natural gas about 120 billion yuan, biomass heating fuel industry about 18 billion yuan, bio-liquid about 18 billion yuan.
Public Private Partnerships: 
Actively support the private sectors and capitals to participate in the bioenergy field.
Governance
Energy management principles: 
Coordinate the development of energy, environmental protection and agricultural strategies, fully use the biomass energy to support the recycling agriculture, promote the ecological and environmental protection level, promote biomass energy development and utilization.
Technology
Clean energy technology priorities: 
Speed up the application of modern waste incineration treatment and pollution prevention and control technology to improve the level of environmental protection of waste incineration power generation.