The Energy Bureau Regulates the "4.95 Phenomenon" of Small-scale Wind Power Projects

Guodian Power announced that the company plans to raise no more than 5.5 billion yuan to invest in 16 hydropower and wind power projects such as the Dadushan Dadushan Hydropower Plant in Sichuan, of which 11 wind power projects will have a total investment of 5.195 billion yuan, and the planned investment will be 3.890 billion yuan. . All 11 projects are wind power projects with an installed capacity of 49,500 kilowatts.

According to previous national regulations, wind power projects with an installed capacity of more than 50,000 kilowatts are uniformly approved by the state. Wind power projects with an installed capacity of less than 50,000 kilowatts are subject to examination and approval by local governments, and must be submitted to the National Development and Reform Commission for the record. In order to circumvent the cumbersome procedures of national examination and approval, the company started the rapid development of the large project into a small number of 49,500 and 49,900 kilowatts of small projects and submitted the "4.95 Phenomenon."

It is understood that at present, only a few projects under construction and planned wind power projects with a total installed capacity of about 60 million kilowatts reported by various localities have undergone unified national examination and approval. The installed capacity of these projects only accounts for nearly 10% of the total installed capacity. Due to the lack of plans for coordinated development with the power grid, many wind farms that have been approved by local governments have occasionally experienced fan idleness.

According to reports, the national competent authorities are formulating regulations governing the examination and approval system for wind power projects, and the methods will be clear. Local governments must obtain a reply from the National Energy Administration before approving wind power projects with an installed capacity of 50 MW or less. .

An authoritative source from the National Energy Administration stated that at present, the Energy Bureau is indeed making plans to regulate the operation of wind farms, but there has not been any specific policy for the “4.95 phenomenon”.

An insider of Guodian Electric stated: “The Energy Bureau is now encouraging the development of wind power on a scale, so we have also reported several hundreds of thousands of kilowatts of large projects to the Energy Bureau. But to be honest, the steps approved by the Energy Agency are still relatively Slowly, it is still faster at the provincial level, and we are now combining centralization and decentralization to report a large project to the local government in three phases, so that the approval can be done quickly, and it can also be built in pieces, and the investor should not increase investment. It is good for both countries and businesses."

According to the person in charge, wind power projects, as reported to the Energy Bureau for approval, must be submitted to the Ministry of Land and Resources, the State Grid Corporation of China, and the Ministry of Environmental Protection for approval of the land, power grid, and environmental protection. The speed of audits is naturally lower than that of local governments.

"The core issue is still the issue of unified planning, and approval is the second one." Ouyang Changyu, deputy secretary-general of the China Electricity Council (hereinafter referred to as "CEC"), said that the reason for the current disunity in planning is that of local governments. Wind power development planning goes far beyond national planning. The National Planning Commission will consider the acceptance and delivery of wind power as a whole, while the local government is limited to the province and focuses on the development of resources. Naturally, it hopes to “work more quickly”.

Ouyang Changyu told reporters that there are similar phenomena in the eight national wind power bases. “We only know how to develop, but do not care about which province the wind power is going to consume, how much it consumes, how it is transported, and other important issues. The amount of wind power that a country’s power system can accommodate at most is limited, and it can only be surpassed. ”

According to CEC's calculation, the maximum acceptance capacity of China's power system for wind power in 2015 is about 100 million kilowatts, but it is very likely that it will only reach a level of more than 90 million kilowatts.