Abstract:

The large-scale integration of renewable energy has become an important way to achieve China’s carbon neutrality goal,and te deployment of energy storage equipment is an important guarantee for this path.In the past decades,China has achieved huge success in the adopting pumped storage hydropower and the lithium battery as the most important energy storage equipment.However,with the increasingly politicized climate change and the increasingly “de Sinicization” of the industrial chain of developed countries,as a country with high external dependence on the lithium resources,there are certain risks for China to continue the energy storage development path dominated by the lithium batteries.From the perspective of energy security,China should consider supporting the energy storage technologies with the high resource self-sufficiency rate,so as to better ensure the realization of the double carbon goal.

Key words: energy storage, external dependence, energy security, carbon neutrality