Distributed Wind Power Drives New Opportunities for Wind Power Development

On February 27, the State Grid issued the “Opinions on Doing a Good Job in Distribution Power Grid Service Work,” distributed power generation projects with a voltage rating of 10 kilovolts and below and a total installed capacity of a single grid point not exceeding 6 megawatts. There is no charge for service charges in connection with network application acceptance, access system planning, access system engineering design review, meter installation, contract and agreement signing, grid acceptance and grid commissioning, government subsidy measurement and settlement services. And excess electricity can be sold to the country.

On October 26 last year, the State Grid once said good to the photovoltaic industry and announced that it would receive distributed PV access for free. At present, it has accepted 119 distributed photovoltaic report installation services, generating capacity of 338,000 kilowatts, and there have been reports of the first civil distributed photovoltaic power supply grid connection in Qingdao, Beijing and other places. The photovoltaic industry seems to have found it in a sad state. Twilight.

This time, the scope of support has been extended to solar, natural gas, biomass, wind, geothermal, ocean energy, and resource utilization. According to the “12th Five-Year Plan for Energy Development”, in 2015, China will build 1,000 natural gas distributed energy projects and 100 new energy demonstration cities based on distributed renewable energy applications. The scale of distributed solar power generation is Reach 10 million kilowatts.

However, the development of distributed power sources has been slow due to high development costs and difficulties in grid connection. “The national grid free service policy is exactly the right remedy for these two bottlenecks, thereby increasing the industry's development enthusiasm and bringing more users to participate in the development of new energy.” Li Qionghui, Director of the New Energy Research Institute, State Grid Energy Research Institute Indicated. The wind power equipment manufacturing companies that are in trouble now will also be saved.

It is worth noting that the distributed wind power project also enjoys the same special treatment as PV that does not charge system spare capacity. Therefore, some experts predict that, following PV, distributed wind power may become another major beneficiary of free policies. Popularly speaking, distributed wind power is a small wind power plant built in the courtyard of a household or in a factory. According to the plan, by the end of 2015, distributed wind power installed capacity will reach 30 million kilowatts.

However, at a time when large-scale wind power plants were in desperate need of relief, the country’s move to support distributed wind power was puzzling. Li Qionghui told reporters that it is not easy to solve the problem of large-scale wind farms in a short period of time. Grid-connected technology is not a problem, but due to the lag in grid planning, the electricity that cannot be delivered locally cannot be transported. As a result, distributed wind power distributed throughout the country becomes a new choice.