Recently, as the international crude oil prices all the way down, and oil and gas prices are closely linked to a continuous fall. China's natural gas since April this year slashed gate prices, a few days ago came news that the state will once again cut gas prices. Ordinarily, follow the market, survival of the fittest is the basic law of market competition. However, gas prices fell sharply on the infancy of coal and natural gas in this emerging industry, undoubtedly a fatal blow. The author of this appeal, the national response to SNG helping to implement the necessary policies to help this emerging clean energy industry through the crisis and achieve sustainable development.
First, coal and natural gas is the state encourages the development of new industries. As we all know, the five major categories of modern coal chemical industry to encourage the development path, the coal gas project was approved and carried out an early demonstration of the industry. As early as around 2009, the state has approved a five coal gasification demonstration project, a total capacity of 15.1 billion cubic meters. Then a few years, get a national "flagging" of coal gas project even more. The state encourages the development of coal gas has deep historical reasons and practical needs. For a long time, China's natural gas shortage in the state, when the "gas shortage" phenomenon have occurred, and as China's economic development, the future will be more demand for natural gas. For the purposes of energy security and environmental protection, the state selected as coal and natural gas development, is a long-term energy strategy. Since countries have chosen to develop coal and natural gas, and as a long-term energy strategy should be implemented at a critical time necessary support policies to help them ride out the storm, grow and develop.
But now gas prices continue to drop, is still at the initial stage of coal and natural gas is definitely a hit. The price adjustment process, and no country has any SNG "support the market" action, so that coal and natural gas industries "very hurt", you need to pay close attention of the national parties.
Secondly, no protection, coal and natural gas industry will be difficult to survive. Coal and natural gas as an important supplementary channel for the domestic shortage of natural gas, has positive significance suppress price of imported gas to meet domestic market demand. But it is undeniable that, due to coal gas project are capital and technology-intensive industries, the huge scale of the project investment, high investment risk; combined in its infancy stage, production costs remain high, relative to the ordinary in terms of natural gas at a disadvantage position, do not have the ability to compete with ordinary natural gas. The reason, one project generally below the design scale. In demonstration of several projects, the construction of three to four general points. The country has been put into coal gas project, basically only the first phase of construction, but all the public works and other items you need to build in advance, which resulted in the project over a period of time before the scale is not formed, the product cost far higher than the market price, if the gas price dropped lower and lower, huge losses can be imagined. Second, the environmental investment is huge. With the implementation of the new "environmental law", the state of the coal chemical industry increasingly strict environmental constraints, coal and natural gas increasing environmental costs, greatly squeezing the profit margins of products, but also to undermine the competitiveness of the project to a certain extent .
According to my understanding, in April this year gas prices lower, coal and natural gas has been put into demonstration projects increased loss, and some have been "flagging" or preparing to enter the field of business, affected also hold a wait and see attitude, on the development prospects of the industry are very pessimistic. Nowadays coal and natural gas industries like nursing infants, need care. Not protected, the result can only be "Ship Even Sank die first."
Again, the protection of the emerging industry is the government's usual practice. On weak emerging industries, particularly the implementation of policies for the protection of new energy industries, is consistent State practice. For example, in the early development of wind energy, solar energy and other emerging clean energy industry, the state in the longer term given the price protection and policy support, and it has grown. If the country is also to coal and natural gas industries policy support, particularly appropriate given the current subject to international crude oil prices plummeted under the impact of price protection, in time, our coal and natural gas industry will certainly grow, for the clean energy strategy and make its due contribution.