(Washington Reuters) As the global economy accelerates energy transformation, some key resources are excessively concentrated in the risk of a few countries or exacerbating the supply chain interruption.Senior officials of the US State Department called for emerging enterprises to take action quickly to avoid being restrained by China in the critical energy transformation supply chain.
The US Department of State's assistant Secretary of State Geoffrey Pyatt, an assistant to the energy resources, said on Tuesday (October 24) that the United States must ensure that China will not dominate wind power, small nuclear power and hydrogen energy.He pointed out that China is basically a monopoly position in solar wafers and solar batteries, hindering the development of the US solar manufacturing industry.
Since the United States relies on the mineral resources that have obtained processing and renewable energy from China and Africa, such as graphite, lithium and cobalt in the production of electric vehicle batteries, and polysilicon required for the production of solar panels, this makes this makes it.The US energy supply chain is facing the risk of being restrained.
Pats said at the Natural Gas Conference in Washington that Washington has always been in contact with the Australian, the European Union and Japan's industry to ensure that Europe's energy transformation will not simply shift from dependence on Russia to China."We should not succumb to fate, and we should not think that this (energy transformation) competition has failed."
He said that he recently visited a battery manufacturer in San Jose, California, which is considering establishing a "risk" supply chain system, which makes him hopeful for US energy transformation.
In August 2022, US President Biden signed a Angle Act (IRA). The bill plans to invest 369 billion US dollars (about S $ 505.3 billion) for climate change and energy safety fields, including the US clean energy manufacturing enterpriseProvide tax credit, provide electric vehicle purchase subsidies, support smart agriculture, etc., to promote the energy transformation of power plants, industry, and transportation departments, reduce the cost of using clean energy and promoting renewable energy, and encourage more clean energy to change consumption to change consumption consumptionBehavior.
But the development of some energy industries such as new nuclear power must take several years. In addition, officials must also formulate new laws to maximize the power generated by large solar energy and wind energy to urban areas.
