Against the backdrop of rural revitalization and the green transition of rural energy, and in conjunction with relevant national policies from 2019 to 2025, this paper points out that the core issue in the current promotion of rural clean energy lies in the imperfect benefit linkage mechanism, along with problems such as inadequate infrastructure, lack of operation and maintenance, and over-reliance on subsidies. Based on differences in driving forces of benefits, the benefit linkage models for rural clean energy are categorized into five types: policy-driven models, production- investment models, energy storage innovation models, demand-led models, and platform integration models. The paper also analyzes deficiencies in the new energy industry, including management systems, industrial ecology, technological costs, and mismatches between resources and load. Finally, it proposes pathways for "policy coordination, technological standardization, farmer empowerment, and equitable distribution" to transform farmers from "bystanders" to "beneficiaries" in the energy transition, thereby achieving synergistic progress with rural revitalization.
Zhao et al. (Thu,) studied this question.