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National energy storage policy summary in February

Mar 2, 2023

According to incomplete statistics, a total of 26 energy storage industry-related policies were released in February 2023.

National policy level: President Xi Jinping proposed to support enterprises to "go to sea in groups" and accelerate import diversification; the National Energy Administration approved 168 new energy industry standards, of which 11 are related to energy storage; according to the National Standards Committee and the National Energy Administration, 205 new energy storage standards have been issued so far, initially forming a new Energy storage standards system, basically can support the commercial development of new energy storage industry.

Local policy level: Zhejiang, Fujian and East China clearly participate in energy storage enterprises to participate in power auxiliary service rules; Hunan, Guian, Shuozhou, Bengbu and Dongguan introduced electricity price incentive subsidy mechanism; Hubei carried out pilot demonstration of new energy storage power plant; Henan, Shandong, Guangdong, Hebei, Changsha, Yiyang and Ningxia introduced carbon peak program and energy work guidance; Nanjing promoted the synergistic development of energy storage and hydrogen energy.

National

Technical Specification for High Voltage DC Protection Test Equipment

On February 17, the National Energy Administration approved 168 energy industry standards such as "Technical Specification for High Voltage DC Protection Test Equipment", of which 11 are related to energy storage, including "Technical Conditions for Electric Stacks for All-Vanadium Liquid Flow Batteries", "Requirements for Electrolyte Recovery for All-Vanadium Liquid Flow Batteries", "Test Methods for Zinc-based Liquid Flow Battery Systems", "Safety Requirements for Zinc-based Liquid Flow Batteries", "Technical Specification for Installation of Zinc-based Liquid Flow Batteries". Technical Specification for Electrolyte for Ferrochrome Liquid Flow Battery" "Planning Report Preparation Regulations for Wind-Water-Fire-Storage Multi-energy Complementary Power Generation Project" "Guidelines for Start-up Commissioning of Reversible Pumped Storage Units" "Depth of Content Provisions for Feasibility Study Report of Electrochemical Energy Storage Power Station" "Depth of Content Provisions for Preliminary Design of Electrochemical Energy Storage Power Station" "Depth of Content Provisions for Construction Drawing Design of Electrochemical Energy Storage Power Station", etc.

Technical Guidelines for Planning New Energy Storage for Cross-Provincial Power Transmission Configuration of New Energy Bases (Draft for Comments)

On February 21, the industry standard led by the National Energy Board, "New Energy Base Cross-Provincial Power Transmission Configuration New Energy Storage Planning Technical Guidelines" (Draft for Comments) was released to the public. This is the first planning technical guidelines issued at the national level to guide the scale of new energy storage configuration.

The guidelines will be used to guide the planning of new energy storage for cross-provincial power transmission configuration of new energy bases and clarify the corresponding technical principles. The main technical contents include: terminology and general rules, configuration capacity analysis, planning site selection, technology selection, layout and access system, power system secondary, technical and economic analysis, etc.

Guide to the Construction of New Energy Storage Standard System

On February 22, the National Standardization Administration Committee and the National Energy Board issued the notice of "New Energy Storage Standard System Construction Guide", which introduced a total of 205 new energy storage standards.

The document proposes to make and revise more than 100 key standards for new energy storage in 2023, accelerate the making and revision of design specifications, safety regulations, construction and acceptance and other standards for energy storage power plants, carry out pre-research on safety standards for energy storage power plants, emergency management, fire protection and other standards, establish and improve the safety standard system as soon as possible, combine with the construction needs of new power systems, and initially form a new energy storage standard system, which can basically support the new energy storage Industry commercialization development.

Several major issues of the current economic work

The 4th issue of Seeking Truth published on February 16 published a part of the important speech of Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, at the Central Economic Work Conference on December 15, 2022, "A few major issues of the current economic work".

Among them, to strengthen the important energy, mineral resources domestic exploration and development and increase storage on production, the overall layout of the power source network load storage, accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system, support enterprises "group to the sea", accelerate import diversification. To accelerate new energy, artificial intelligence, biological manufacturing, green low-carbon, quantum computing and other cutting-edge technology research and development and application promotion, to support the development of specialized and special new enterprises.

Zhejiang

Notice on matters related to the participation of third-party independent entities in electricity auxiliary services in Zhejiang Province

On February 1, the Zhejiang Supervision Office of the National Energy Administration issued a notice on matters related to the participation of third-party independent entities in electricity auxiliary services in Zhejiang Province. The policy mentions that the trial operation of the third-party independent subject participation in electricity auxiliary service settlement in Zhejiang Province has been transferred to normal operation since February 1, 2023. The notice mentions that regarding the declaration of transactions, the minimum declared length of rotating standby, peak shaving and peak transfer, and valley filling and peak transfer is 0.5 hours, and the minimum declared capacity is 0 MW.

The General Office of Zhejiang Provincial People's Government's Guidance on Fostering the Development of Future Industries

On February 10, the General Office of the People's Government of Zhejiang Province issued the "Guidance Opinions of the General Office of the People's Government of Zhejiang Province on Fostering the Development of Future Industries", which mentioned hydrogen energy and energy storage and put forward important initiatives for standardization work. In hydrogen energy and energy storage. Breakthroughs in cutting-edge technologies such as ultra-high pressure or deep-cooled hydrogen energy storage and transportation, high-efficiency catalysts, hydrogen fuel cells, electrochemical energy storage, etc., develop efficient hydrogen production, storage and use products, accelerate their application in smart transportation, green chemical industry and other fields, and promote multi-energy complementarity.

Fujian

Basic Rules for Electricity Market Operation in Fujian (for Trial Implementation)

On February 1, Fujian Energy Regulatory Office and Fujian Development and Reform Commission issued the "Basic Rules for Electricity Market Operation in Fujian (for Trial Implementation)". The rules stipulate that emerging market players, including energy storage enterprises, load aggregators and adjustable loads, can participate in Fujian's electricity market.

Hunan

Notice on Good Capacity Allocation of New Energy Storage and New Energy Projects

On February 1, the Development and Reform Commission of Hunan Province issued the "Notice on Good Capacity Allocation for New Energy Storage and New Energy Projects". The notice said that for new energy storage pilot projects that have been connected to the grid at full capacity by the end of 2022, complete the configuration work with new energy projects that have been connected to the grid for power generation; for new energy storage pilot projects that apply to be connected to the grid at full capacity by the end of June 2023, specify the new energy projects they match as the main basis for inclusion in the pilot.

Rules for the implementation of the "Implementation Opinions on Supporting the Advanced Energy Storage Materials Industry to Grow and Strengthen

On February 3, Hunan Changsha City Bureau of Industry and Information Technology and Changsha City Bureau of Finance jointly issued the "Implementation Rules of the Opinions on Supporting the Advanced Energy Storage Material Industry to Grow and Strengthen". The document further clarifies the specific rules for subsidizing and rewarding the electricity consumption of energy storage power plants and energy storage material enterprises, and announces the list of products in the strong chain of Changsha's advanced energy storage material industry (2023). The implementation rules are valid until December 31, 2026.

Support enterprises to use energy storage power plants to reduce electricity costs, according to the actual discharge volume of energy storage power plants to give energy storage power plant operators 0.3 yuan / kWh incentives, a single enterprise annual incentive amount of no more than 3 million yuan.

Changsha City Carbon Peak Implementation Plan

On February 15, Changsha Municipal People's Government issued the "Changsha City Carbon Peak Implementation Plan", which proposes that by 2025, the scale of new energy storage projects will reach 660,000 kilowatts, the utilization rate of wind power generation will reach more than 98%, and the utilization rate of photovoltaic power generation will reach 100%. By 2030, the scale of new energy storage projects will reach more than 1 million kilowatts, and the utilization rate of wind power, photovoltaic and other new energy sources will reach 100%.

Yiyang City Carbon Peak Implementation Plan

On February 22, Yiyang Municipal People's Government issued a notice on "Yiyang City Carbon Peak Implementation Plan", which pointed out that the government should actively develop the "new energy + energy storage" model, accelerate the integration of wind power, photovoltaic power generation and new energy storage, accelerate the construction of power demand response platform, promote the intensive use of energy, and solve the problem of abandoned water, abandoned wind and abandoned light. . By 2025, the installed capacity of new energy storage will reach more than 400,000 kilowatts; by 2030, the city's power grid peak load response capacity will reach more than 5%.

Hubei

Notice on the pilot demonstration of new energy storage power plants" "Green Energy Development in Yunnan Province" 14th Five-Year Plan

On February 3, the Hubei Provincial Energy Bureau issued a notice on the pilot demonstration of a new type of energy storage power plant. The document said that the total installed capacity of the pilot release project is about 1GW. According to the actual situation in Hubei Province, lithium batteries, sodium-sulfur battery technology route energy storage projects, energy storage projects that have received new energy generation construction indicators do not participate in the declaration.

Gui'an

Gui'an New Area Power Battery Industry Financial Subsidy Management Measures (for Trial Implementation) (Draft for Comments)

On February 3, Gui'an New Area Investment Promotion Bureau issued "Gui'an New Area Power Battery Industry Financial Subsidy Management Measures (for Trial Implementation) (Draft for Comments)". The subsidy standard is 0.1 Yuan/Wh for power batteries sold. The beneficiary of the subsidy is the customer of the power battery manufacturer, and the manufacturer will settle with the customer according to the price after deducting the subsidy when selling the power battery. The total sales of the subsidy is capped at 13GWh This measure is implemented from the date of publication and is valid until December 31, 2025.

Shuozhou

Implementation Plan for the Development of New Energy Storage in Shuozhou City in the 14th Five-Year Plan

On February 3, Shuozhou City Energy Bureau issued a notice on "Shuozhou City "14th Five-Year Plan" New Energy Storage Development Implementation Plan". The program lists Shuozhou's energy storage projects, with over 2.35GW/5.1GWh of energy storage projects planned. Encourage all kinds of investment bodies to develop new energy storage projects, for the conditions of the new energy storage projects, combined with the level of energy storage technology and system efficiency, in the new energy project construction index competitive allocation and other aspects to give appropriate incentives.

Industry chain-related enterprises can be recognized as the city's strategic emerging industries enterprises, and can participate in the Shanxi Province strategic emerging industries enterprises electricity market-based special transactions, enjoy the landed electricity price of 0.3 yuan / degree of electricity policy support.

Henan

Henan Province Carbon Peak Implementation Plan

On February 6, Henan Provincial People's Government issued the "Henan Province Carbon Peak Implementation Plan". The program proposes to accelerate the application of new energy storage on a large scale, promote the reasonable allocation of new energy storage in new energy sites, optimize the layout of grid-side energy storage, encourage large users and industrial parks to layout new energy storage, and support the demonstration application of home energy storage. Deepen the reform of the electricity system, improve the market-based formation mechanism of electricity prices. By 2025, the installed capacity of new energy storage will reach more than 2.2 million kilowatts, and the installed capacity of new pumped storage will be 2.4 million kilowatts. By 2030, the installed capacity of pumped storage power plants will reach more than 15 million kilowatts, and the power system will basically have a peak load response capacity of more than 5%.

Public Announcement on the Selection Results of the Second Batch of Provincial Independent Energy Storage Power Plant Demonstration Projects

On February 14, the Development and Reform Commission of Henan Province released the "Announcement on the Selection Results of the Second Batch of Provincial Independent Energy Storage Power Plant Demonstration Projects". The public announcement shows that a total of 27 independent energy storage power plant demonstration projects were selected in this batch, with a total scale of 2.5GW/5.2GWh! The participating enterprises include many group enterprises such as CNNC Hui Energy, China Power Construction, China Huaneng, Huadian Group, China Resources Group, CGNPC, TBEA, etc.

Shandong

Guidance on the province's energy work in 2023

On February 7, the Shandong Provincial Energy Bureau issued a notice on "the province's energy work guidance in 2023". The document proposes to strengthen energy policy innovation. Continue to implement the priority policy of energy storage, study the preparation of new energy storage to participate in the power market trading, scheduling, settlement rules, explore the establishment of new energy storage capacity trading mechanism, promote the project should be built as much as possible, can be used as much as possible, continue to maintain the national leadership. By the end of 2023, the installed capacity of new energy storage will reach more than 2 million kilowatts, and the installed capacity of pumped storage power plants in operation will reach 8 million kilowatts.

Guangdong

Guangdong Province Carbon Peak Implementation Plan

On February 7, the Guangdong Provincial People's Government issued the "Guangdong Carbon Peak Implementation Plan", which proposes to carry out demonstration and large-scale application of new energy storage power plants according to local conditions, and steadily promote the construction of "new energy + energy storage" projects. By 2025, the installed capacity of new energy storage will reach more than 2 million kilowatts. By 2030, the installed capacity of pumped storage power plants exceeds 15 million kilowatts, and the provincial power grid basically has a peak load response capacity of more than 5%.

Several Policies for Promoting High-Quality Economic Development in Dongcheng Street (Draft for Comments)

On February 22, the People's Government of Dongguan City issued the "Dongcheng Street to promote high-quality economic development of a number of policies (draft for comments)". The draft proposed to encourage the demonstration of new energy storage applications. For new energy storage projects with a total amount of more than 5 million yuan on the user side completed and put into operation in the Dongcheng district, developed and built by local Nautilus equipment manufacturers or service integrators, or the total investment in a single project to purchase equipment and technical services from local Nautilus enterprises accounting for not less than 40%, the project investor will be given a subsidy of 100 yuan/kWh according to the installed capacity of the energy storage facilities, with the maximum subsidy for a single project 500,000 yuan.

Anhui

Anhui Electricity Frequency Regulation Auxiliary Service Market Operation Rules (Mock-up Draft)

On February 7, the East China Energy Regulatory Bureau issued the "Anhui Electricity Frequency Regulation Auxiliary Service Market Operation Rules" (mock-up draft). The document proposes that the sum of the winning FM capacity of emerging FM resources such as independent energy storage power stations, load aggregators and virtual power plants shall not exceed 30% of the total demand for FM capacity.

Independent energy storage power station charging/discharging power should be more than 10 MW, duration of more than 1 hour. Independent energy storage power plants, load aggregators, and virtual power plants have at least hourly granularity of time-sharing metering devices and can carry out reliable information transmission.

Bengbu City PV Building Application Pilot City Special Funds Use Management Measures

February 15, Bengbu City, Anhui Province, Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau issued a notice on the issuance of "Bengbu City, photovoltaic building application pilot city special funds to use management approach". The notice proposed that the PV building integration demonstration project building roof PV project at 200 yuan / kW standard to give subsidies, building façade PV project at 300 yuan / kW standard to give subsidies, energy storage at 200 yuan / kW standard to give subsidies, ultra-low energy consumption, near zero energy demonstration project at 500 yuan / square meter standard to give subsidies; single demonstration project subsidies within 300,000 yuan.

Hebei

Implementation Plan of Carbon Peak in Urban and Rural Construction in Hebei Province

On February 8, the Hebei Provincial Department of Housing and Construction and the Development and Reform Commission jointly released the "Implementation Plan for Carbon Peaking in Urban and Rural Construction in Hebei Province". The program proposes to guide the development of building heating, cooling, hot water and cooking to electrification. Promote the application of smart microgrid, "light storage straight soft", storage of cold and heat, flexible load regulation, virtual power plants and other technologies, giving priority to the consumption of renewable energy power, and actively participate in the power demand-side response. Gradually implement the construction of new public buildings in accordance with ultra-low energy-saving standards, running all the use of electricity. By 2030, the proportion of electricity used in buildings will reach more than 45% of building energy consumption, and the proportion of new public buildings fully electrified will reach 20%.

Implementation Plan for Carbon Dumping in Hebei Province

On February 13, the People's Government of Hebei Province released the "Hebei Province Carbon Peak Implementation Plan". The document proposes to actively develop "new energy + energy storage", integration of source network, load and storage and multi-energy complementary, and support distributed new energy to reasonably allocate energy storage systems. Plan to implement a number of major projects of pumped storage, accelerate the application of chemical energy storage, compressed air energy storage and other large-scale applications. Deeply promote the reform of the electricity market and power grid system. By 2025, the installed capacity of new energy storage will reach more than 4 million kilowatts. By 2030, the installed capacity of pumped storage power plants will reach 8.67 million kilowatts, and provincial power grids will basically have a peak load response capacity of more than 5%.

Xinjiang

Notice on the Priority Power Purchase and Priority Generation Plan for Xinjiang Power Grid in 2023
On February 8, Xinjiang Development and Reform Commission issued the Notice on 2023 Xinjiang Power Grid Priority Power Purchase Priority Power Generation Plan. The first batch of power generation side PV energy storage joint operation pilot project 5 projects are: Awati Yue Hydropower Energy Co. 7.5MW/15MWh energy storage project, CEC Xinjiang Energy and Chemical Group Aksu Co. 16.5MW/31MWh energy storage project, CGNPC Ingisha 20MW PV power generation 3MW/6MWh energy storage project, Xinjiang Xinhua Hydropower Investment Co. Ltd. 180MW PV power station 40MW/80MWh energy storage project, CEC Xinjiang Energy & Chemical Group Hotan Co., Ltd. 60MW PV power station Luopu 10MW/20MWh energy storage project, the participating energy storage companies are Zhiguang Energy Storage, State Grid Energy Conservation, Sunshine Power, BAK Battery and Mangli Technology.

Nanjing

Nanjing Action Plan for Accelerating the Development of Energy Storage and Hydrogen Energy Industry (2023-2025)
On February 14, the Nanjing Bureau of Industry and Information Technology released the "Nanjing Action Plan for Accelerating the Development of Energy Storage and Hydrogen Energy Industry (2023-2025)". In the document, it is mentioned that we should focus on building a complete energy storage industry chain structure of "upstream raw materials and basic equipment components production - midstream technology system integration - downstream market application and recycling".

In terms of energy storage, cultivate key leading enterprises. From the application scene, factor supply, R & D investment, business environment and other aspects to increase support for leading enterprises, focus on the key nodes of the industry chain, the introduction of a number of bipolar plate, positive materials, energy management system (EMS), energy storage converter (PCS), system integration and other key key core components enterprises.

Ningxia

Ningxia "fourteen five" new energy storage development implementation plan
On February 23, Ningxia Development and Reform Commission issued the "Ningxia "14th Five-Year Plan" new energy storage development implementation plan", the document points out that in the source, network, load-side application scenarios to build a number of diversified new energy storage projects, the "14th Five-Year Plan" at the end of the region's new energy storage configuration scale of 5 million kilowatts / 10 million kilowatt hours or more, the region's energy storage facilities capacity of not less than 10% of the installed capacity of new energy, continuous energy storage for more than 2 hours.