On April 4, the National Energy Administration officially released the "Notice on Promoting the Integration of New Energy and Ensuring High-Quality Development" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice").
From NEA
On April 4, the National Energy Administration officially released the "Notice on Promoting the Integration of New Energy and Ensuring High-Quality Development" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice").
The notice aims to enhance the power system's ability to integrate new energy sources, ensuring their reasonable development and utilization while maintaining high levels of efficiency. It also seeks to promote the high-quality development of new energy sources.
In recent years, China's new energy development has accelerated significantly. According to data from the National Energy Administration, by the end of April 2024, nationwide cumulative installed capacity for wind and photovoltaic power had exceeded 1.1 billion kilowatts, representing a 38% increase. The demand for integration has also increased significantly.
To adapt to this rapid growth in new energy sources and ensure their high-quality development, it is necessary to optimize and improve policy measures for their integration. This includes solidifying foundations, consolidating achievements, as well as reforming and innovating in order to promote construction of a high-quality integrated system for new energy supply.
The notice outlines four key tasks for expediting the construction of supporting grid projects for new energy sources. These tasks include actively promoting the enhancement of system regulation capacity and coordinated development of grid and power sources, fully leveraging the role of the grid as a resource allocation platform, and scientifically optimizing the utilization rate target of new energy sources.
In terms of accelerating the construction of supporting grid projects for new energy sources, the notice specifies that the National Energy Administration will organize annual adjustments to the national power development plan for projects related to 500 kilovolts or above grid projects. Additionally, a "green channel" will be opened for priority projects such as national layout large wind power and photovoltaic base, river basin water wind and photovoltaic integration base, in order to expedite the inclusion of numerous new energy supporting grid projects in the plan.
According to the notice, key projects scheduled to commence in 2024 for new energy supporting grid construction include:
- The Chuanbi-Yibin 500 kilovolt AC transmission project in Sichuan and Chongqing
- The 500 kilovolt outgoing transmission project for Yicheng Pumped Storage Power Station in Hebei
- The 500 kilovolt transmission and transformation project in Qiaoying, Anhui
- The 500 kilovolt transmission and transformation project in Daqing Experimental Platform, Heilongjiangas well as 37 other projects.
In order to fully fulfill the role of the grid as a resource allocation platform, it is necessary for grid companies to further enhance the proportion of cross-provincial and cross-regional transmission channels for new energy. This includes adjusting operation modes in a timely manner according to the needs of new energy consumption, in order to enhance inter-provincial assistance and expand consumption scope. It is also important to comprehensively enhance the observability, measurability, controllability, and adjustability of distribution grids. Improving dispatch operation procedures is crucial for promoting fair use and full utilization of all types of regulation resources. Additionally, building a smart dispatch system will enhance the grid's ability to regulate high-proportion new energy. Furthermore, there should be targeted promotion of the construction of new energy microgrids and renewable energy local grids in order to enhance the ability to absorb distributed new energy sources.
The notice also emphasizes the importance of solidly carrying out data statistics and management of new energy consumption. Power generation enterprises and grid enterprises should strictly implement statistical methods for available and restricted electricity generation at wind power plants and photovoltaic power stations as stipulated in relevant documents. It is essential to unify the statistical scope of new energy utilization rate.