National Energy Administration: By 2030, integrated development will become an important method for the development of new energy sources, and the level of reliable replacement of new energy sources will increase markedly

The Zhitong Finance App learned that on November 12, the National Energy Administration issued guidance on promoting the integrated development of new energy sources. Among them, it was mentioned that by 2030, integrated development will become an important method for the development of new energy sources. The level of reliable replacement of new energy sources will increase markedly, market competitiveness will improve markedly, strongly support the overall green transformation of economic and social development, and provide a safer and more reliable green energy guarantee to accelerate Chinese-style modernization.

Among them, it is mentioned to promote the integrated development of distributed new energy sources in multiple fields. Promote the integrated development of transportation energy, encourage the construction of integrated new energy and surrounding energy use facilities in highway service areas, highway slopes and stations, railway stations, airports, ports, etc., actively apply technologies such as flexible convergence access, smart microgrids, vehicle network interaction, etc., increase the proportion of local development and utilization, promote large-scale application of new energy heavy trucks and the construction of supporting energy supplementation infrastructure, and encourage integrated development of optical storage, charging and switching. Promote the integrated development of photovoltaics in buildings, promote simultaneous planning, design and simultaneous construction of photovoltaic systems and buildings, promote low-carbon energy use and clean heating in buildings, and build new “direct and flexible light storage” buildings. Deepen and promote the rural energy revolution. Under the premise of strictly implementing land use policies, rely on new models and new business formats to integrate rural decentralized wind power, distributed photovoltaics, water energy and other resources, enhance rural electricity autonomy and reliable supply capacity, and promote local consumption and utilization of new energy sources in rural areas. Support the promotion of complementary marine energy development in islands and other regions, and enhance marine energy consumption guarantee service capabilities.

It also mentioned optimizing relevant processes such as approval (filing) of new energy integration projects, power grid access, and power business license processing, etc., to encourage one-stop processing of relevant procedures for the entire project. Local authorities are encouraged to combine actual research on multi-party cooperation mechanisms for new energy and industrial integration projects. The study supports eligible new energy integration projects through local government special bonds.

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National Energy Administration's Guiding Opinions on Promoting Integrated Development of New Energy Sources

Energy bureaus of each province (autonomous region, municipality directly under the Central Government), relevant provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Development and Reform Commission, various dispatched agencies, and relevant power enterprises:

Since the “14th Five-Year Plan”, under the guidance of the “double carbon” strategic goal, China's new energy industry has developed by leaps and bounds. The installed scale of new energy has historically surpassed thermal power, and has entered a new stage of development. At the same time, as the scale of new energy sources becomes larger and the share of electricity is getting higher and higher, the pressure on system consumption continues to increase, and it is increasingly difficult to guarantee factors such as land space. There is an urgent need to change the development, construction and operation model of new energy sources to achieve integrated and integrated development. The following opinions are put forward to promote the integrated and integrated development of new energy sources.

I. General Requirements

Guided by Xi Jinping's ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, we will comprehensively implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress and the 20th Plenary Session of the Party, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, and thoroughly implement the new energy security strategy. Adhere to system integration and integrated development, promote large-scale development and high-level consumption of new energy sources in an integrated manner, strengthen the integrated development of multiple energy types, improve supply reliability and system stability; adhere to technological innovation and industrial collaboration, accelerate the industrialization application of cutting-edge technology, promote collaborative optimization and upgrading of new energy and industry, and broaden the new space for coupling development between new energy sources and industries; adhere to scenario expansion and diversification, expand new energy non-electric applications, cultivate new energy production and consumption models, enhance the autonomy of new energy development, enhance the competitiveness of the new energy market, and create an upgraded version of new energy development.

By 2030, integrated development will become an important method for the development of new energy sources. The level of reliable replacement of new energy sources will increase markedly, market competitiveness will improve markedly, strongly support the overall green transformation of economic and social development, and provide a safer and more reliable green energy guarantee to accelerate Chinese-style modernization.

II. Accelerate the multi-dimensional integrated development of new energy sources

(1) Raise the level of complementary development of multiple types of new energy sources. Optimize the power supply structure and energy storage ratio of the “Shagowang” new energy base, build adjustable power sources such as photothermal power generation according to local conditions, reasonably control the coal and electricity installation requirements of the newly built base, encourage the use of molten salt heat storage and peak regulation, local green ammonia mixing, etc., to raise the level of deep collaboration between new energy and coal power, increase the proportion of green electricity in the base; support regions in a position to do so to give full play to the supporting and regulating effects of photothermal energy, pumped energy storage and new energy storage, etc., and explore the construction of 100% new energy bases. Give full play to the characteristics of high rotational inertia of hydropower, quick start and stop, and accurate adjustment, and actively promote the integrated development of water and landscape in major watersheds. Explore the construction of a new integrated water and landscape base using pumped energy storage, new energy storage, etc. as a regulated power source to drive large-scale high-quality development of the surrounding landscape. Combining regional resource endowment conditions and system regulation support needs, we will promote complementary development such as wind, solar and gas storage for centralized new energy projects in the province.

(2) Strengthen the intensive and mixed use of new energy development space. Strengthen intensive site selection for major new energy bases such as the “Shagou Desert” and water scenery, guide various centralized new energy projects to carry out simultaneous landscape construction, and achieve intensive sharing of site space, transmission and transformation facilities, and regulation capabilities. Promote the transformation and upgrading of wind power and photovoltaic power generation projects in an orderly manner, and improve land use efficiency. Mining areas are encouraged to rely on resources such as idle land and collapsed areas to develop new energy sources such as photovoltaics and wind power. Promote the clustered development of offshore wind power, intensively arrange submarine cable corridors and landing sites, and encourage shared transmission channels. Explore and promote the development and utilization of marine energy and shared infrastructure for various marine activities, and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of three-dimensional marine space development and utilization.

(3) Promote the integrated development of distributed new energy sources in multiple fields. Promote the integrated development of transportation energy, encourage the construction of integrated new energy and surrounding energy use facilities in highway service areas, highway slopes and stations, railway stations, airports, ports, etc., actively apply technologies such as flexible convergence access, smart microgrids, vehicle network interaction, etc., increase the proportion of local development and utilization, promote large-scale application of new energy heavy trucks and the construction of supporting energy supplementation infrastructure, and encourage integrated development of optical storage, charging and switching. Promote the integrated development of photovoltaics in buildings, promote simultaneous planning, design and simultaneous construction of photovoltaic systems and buildings, promote low-carbon energy use and clean heating in buildings, and build new “direct and flexible light storage” buildings. Deepen and promote the rural energy revolution. Under the premise of strictly implementing land use policies, rely on new models and new business formats to integrate rural decentralized wind power, distributed photovoltaics, water energy and other resources, enhance rural electricity autonomy and reliable supply capacity, and promote local consumption and utilization of new energy sources in rural areas. Support the promotion of complementary marine energy development in islands and other regions, and enhance marine energy consumption guarantee service capabilities.

(4) Promote the integrated polymerization operation of new energy sources. Continuously improve the power prediction accuracy of new energy generation, actively adopt advanced grid construction technology, promote collaborative joint optimization and control of multiple types of new energy sources, comprehensively improve the impressive, measurable, adjustable and controllable capabilities of new energy sources, and build a number of system-friendly new energy power plants. Encourage integrated utilization of new energy sources and energy storage, explore substantial joint ventures between new energy sources and other power sources under certain conditions, formulate overall market participation strategies, and enhance market competitiveness. Strengthen digital upgrading and transformation, promote centralized monitoring and integrated operation and maintenance of all stations at new energy bases on the basis of implementing safety protection requirements for power monitoring systems, and improve operational efficiency. Accelerate the large-scale development of virtual power plants and strengthen the aggregation and collaboration of distributed power resources.

3. Vigorously promote the collaborative development of new energy sources and multiple industries

(5) Accelerate the promotion of the new energy industry chain to “make (green) green”. In regions rich in new energy resources, improve the application level and spatial agglomeration efficiency of new energy equipment manufacturing, build more competitive new energy manufacturing bases, strengthen collaborative innovation in upstream and downstream industrial chains, and explore the construction of an integrated and integrated new energy industry system. Promote green manufacturing throughout the chain, and promote the green transformation of new energy raw materials mining and processing, key component manufacturing, and product production processes. Support industrial parks that focus on new energy to apply new business formats such as direct green power connections, smart microgrids (integrated source network load and storage), new energy access to incremental distribution grids, and green license green power transactions to build low-carbon zero-carbon parks with multiple complementary energies and high self-sufficiency, promote the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in industrial parks, and achieve a higher ratio of “green (made) green” in industrial parks.

(6) Promote collaborative optimization and upgrading of new energy and traditional industries in an integrated manner. Actively guide the transfer of high-energy industries to regions where new energy resources are abundant and the resource environment can be carried, use new energy resources to guide major productivity and major infrastructure layout optimization, and achieve local consumption of “Western Power for Western use”. Guide key industries such as petroleum and petrochemicals, chemicals, iron and steel, and non-ferrous metals. Based on regional resource endowments and industrial base, the system enhances load regulation capabilities through optimization of production processes, renovation and upgrading of self-owned power plants, and scientific configuration of energy storage facilities, etc., and collaboratively reduces energy costs and efficiently consumes new energy. Encourage other traditional industries to carry out green product design and flexible production process transformation, collaboratively reduce the carbon footprint throughout the product life cycle, and enhance green competitiveness. Through layout optimization and collaborative operation of new energy sources and traditional industries, we will construct a new industrial energy consumption system that matches the characteristics of new energy sources.

(7) Actively promote the integration and mutual development of new energy and emerging industries. Combine the construction of the “East Digital Western Computing” project to coordinate green power demand for computing power facilities and new energy resource endowments, promote collaborative planning between new energy bases and computing power facilities, and explore the construction of computing power facilities nearby based on offshore wind power bases. Classification explores the potential for spatio-temporal adjustment of computing power loads, promotes the integrated operation of electricity and computing power networks, and provides green power support for speeding up the construction of a national integrated computing power network. In regions where new energy resources are abundant and the manufacturing base is solid, promote the collaborative layout and cluster development of emerging industries such as new materials, high-end equipment manufacturing, energy saving and environmental protection with new energy sources, and accelerate the formation of a new industrial ecosystem “promoting new through new” industries.

4. Actively promote diversified non-electric use of new energy

(8) Focus on improving the level of collaborative development of wind and solar hydrogen storage. Strengthen key technical research such as rapid dynamic operation over a wide range of electric hydrogen production and joint control of multiple electrolyzers, improve the technical performance of electrolyzers, improve the adjustment range, response speed and accuracy of hydrogen production from electrolyzed water, and better adapt to the fluctuating characteristics of new energy sources. Optimize the ratio of wind and light, rationally allocate electricity storage and hydrogen storage facilities, develop integrated adaptive self-regulation systems for new energy power generation, hydrogen production and storage facilities, and hydrogen load, and improve the level of integrated collaborative optimization control and self-balance capabilities for wind and solar hydrogen storage. Promote the development of weak grid-connected and off-grid hydrogen production models from new energy sources.

(9) Steadily build a green hydroammonia alcohol (hydrogen-based energy) comprehensive industrial base. Support all regions to plan and build hydrogen-based energy industries such as green hydroammonia alcohol and sustainable aviation fuel in line with green development needs and resource conditions. Focus on regions with high potential for landscape development and abundant biomass and water resources, and plan to lay out a comprehensive industrial base for the production of hydrogen ammonia alcohol from renewable energy sources. Coordinate supply and demand sides, scientifically plan infrastructure such as transportation pipelines, filling and transit ports, and promote the construction of transportation systems across provinces and regions in an orderly manner. Support the large-scale preparation of green hydroammonia alcohol at the “Shagao Desert” and the Shuicheng Grand Base, promote application in key fields such as coal chemicals and metallurgy, and promote the combined development of industries. Coastal regions are encouraged to explore offshore wind power technology to produce hydroammonia alcohol and develop green fuel refueling for shipping.

(10) Promote the application of new energy heating and heating in an orderly manner. Encourage the construction of multi-energy coupling integrated energy supply stations with new energy sources through renewable energy power heating, heat pump heating (cooling), and photovoltaic photothermal integration in industrial parks where heat (cold) demand is strong, such as textiles, pharmaceuticals, papermaking, and food processing. Identify the potential of new energy heating resources, scientifically lay out geothermal energy heating, strengthen hierarchical utilization of geothermal energy, develop heating models that directly use green electricity according to local conditions, actively explore the complementary and efficient use of multiple heat sources of geothermal energy, scenery, biomass and traditional fossil energy, and promote the organic integration of new energy heating with existing heating systems. Give full play to the advantages of flexible adjustment of thermal systems, promote joint optimal scheduling and operation of new energy and thermal systems, and explore the combined application of new energy heating with long-term heat storage technology such as geotechnical and water bodies.

5. Strengthen organizational guarantees

(11) Actively organize project construction in an orderly manner. The National Energy Administration gives priority to supporting the construction of new energy integration projects in regions with high penetration rates of new energy sources. Provincial energy authorities should strengthen overall coordination and factor guarantees during project organization and construction, rationally arrange project scale in new energy project development and construction plans, enhance cross-departmental cooperation, form joint efforts, and track and monitor project construction and operation in a timely manner. Agencies dispatched by the National Energy Administration and local energy authorities are strengthening supervision of project access and network security in accordance with the division of responsibilities. The National Energy Administration will summarize and promote advanced experiences in typical projects.

(12) Optimizing project investment and development management. Optimize relevant processes such as approval (filing), power grid access, and power business license processing for new energy integration projects, and encourage one-stop processing of relevant procedures for the entire project. Local authorities are encouraged to study multi-party cooperation mechanisms for new energy and industrial integration projects in the light of actual research. The study supports eligible new energy integration projects through local government special bonds.

(13) Optimize the power scheduling mechanism. On the premise of ensuring the safety and stability of power grids, we promote collaborative optimization and scheduling of “sand and desert”, water scenery, and offshore new energy bases, etc., actively promote the aggregation and control of distributed resources through virtual power plants and other models, and encourage integrated energy and industry projects to improve the level of multi-factor collaboration and self-balance of source grid load storage. Refine and improve technical standards, operation rules and assessment rules for grid-connected scheduling of various types of projects, and clarify the regulatory relationships and scope of responsibility of each element.

(14) Improve market transactions and certification mechanisms. Support the “Shagahuang” and Shuifengguang New Energy Bases to participate in electricity market transactions in an integrated model. Promote multi-year green electricity purchase agreements, and improve market and transaction settlement mechanisms for new energy and industry integration projects. Actively explore new energy integration projects to participate fairly in the electric energy market and the power auxiliary service market. Promote the improvement of reliable capacity compensation mechanisms, and explore the inclusion of eligible new energy integration projects in the scope of capacity compensation. Explore and promote the establishment of certification mechanisms for non-electric energy carriers such as green hydroammonia alcohol, and gradually improve green evaluation standards, certification rules and labeling systems.

This article was selected from “National Energy Administration Official Website”; Zhitong Finance Editor: Huang Xiaodong.