Xinhua News Agency: SGCC to Construct 27GW New Energy Integration Project Each Yea

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, Apr 2—It is learned from SGCC on 2, to promote new energy development, SGCC will construct 27GW new energy integration project each year to ensure that 17GW of win power and 10GW installed capacity of PV generation will be integrated to the grid annually before 2020.

Zhang Zhengling, Spokesman of SGCC, stated on the press conference of SGCC White Paper on Promoting New Energy Development that to develop new energy is China’s major strategic decision. Grid is the platform for new energy transmission and resource allocation. To speed up the construction of new energy integration projects can ensure the safe, reliable, and timely integration of new energy generation projects into the power grid, which is of great significance.  

Zhang said: “Grid-integration project is the transmission and transformation project from the first pole outside booster station of new energy power plant to the first landing point at system substation.” Since the beginning of 12th Five-Year Plan, SGCC has sped up the construction of projects to integrate new energy. By the end of 2014, SGCC has invested RMB79.5 billion to construct 40,000km transmission lines, including 37,000km for wind power and 2,625km for solar power.

Moreover, to construct cross-regional transmission lines is an important guarantee for the effective accommodation of new energy. Due to this, SGCC will set up 7 new auxiliary transmission projects including UHV AC projects from Xilingol League to Shandong and from Western Inner Mongolia to Southern Tianjin, and HVDC projects from Jiuquan to Hunan, Ningdong to Zhejiang, Xilingol League to Jiangsu, Shanxi to Jiangsu, and Shanghaimiao to Shandong.

According to the White Paper, China has the largest scale of wind power generation and the fastest growth of photovoltaic power generation in the world. In 2014, China’s installed wind and photovoltaic power capacity has reached 100GW, and the annual power generation has reached 180TWh, which equals to the annual power consumption of a moderately developed province.

By the end of 2014, the installed capacity of wind power in SGCC’s service areas amounted to 87.9GW, and that of photovoltaic power has reached 24.45 GW, 90% of the total capacity in China. The integrated households of distributed photovoltaic power have reached 6936, with a total capacity of 2.65GW.