Abstract:In the context of increasingly severe global constraints of emission reduction, it is meaningful for sustainable development of the power industry to optimize power structure. Considering the factors of market balance, environmental capacity, technological innovation diffusion of new energy power generation, this paper established a regional power structure optimization model by taking the minimum cost of generation as the optimization target. The aim is to predict the 2030’s power generation installed capacity of coal and new energy in Jiangsu Province by scenario analysis. Results show that in 2030: (1) Coal-fired power installed capacity will be about 73.73 million kilowatts and new energy will reach 53.57 million kilowatts in the basic scenario when keeping the 3.5% growth rate and 20% reduction rate.(2) With the growth of power demand, coal-fired power installed capacity will decrease from 67.1% to 51.2%, while wind power and PV will increase to the diffusion potential limit around 14.7% and 19.9%; (3) Similarly, the strengthening efforts of emission reduction will lead to the further decrease of coal-fired power, while wind power and PV will increase to 15.7% and 19.5%;(4) Affected by policy and resource conditions, the growth of hydropower and nuclear power is limited, but PV and wind power have relatively larger potential. Above all, Jiangsu government should concentrate on the energy Internet to promote the large-scale development and technology innovation of wind power and PV power generation.