In March, the CPC Central Committee and The State Council officially issued several Opinions on Further deepening the reform of the electric power system, marking the opening of a new round of electric power system reform. According to the guideline, on the basis of further improving the separation of government and enterprises, plant networks, and main and auxiliary sectors, in accordance with the institutional framework of controlling the middle and freeing the two ends, electricity prices for competitive links other than transmission and distribution should be eased in an orderly manner, electricity distribution business should be opened to private capital in an orderly manner, and electricity generation plans other than public welfare and regulatory functions should be eased in an orderly manner. Promote the relative independence of trading institutions and standardize their operation; Continue to deepen the construction of regional power grid and the transmission and distribution system suitable for our national conditions.

Comments: Compared with the No. 5 article 12 years ago, the external environment has changed greatly. First, the country has made clear the strategic concept of "energy revolution", and second, the central government has decided to comprehensively build a "society under the rule of law". In general, the current round of electricity reform plan comprehensively considered the reform needs and operational principles, compared with the "5", more realistic significance, and 9 basic continuation of the "release of both ends, manage the middle" this basic path, and gradually formed a new power system planning method system.

On November 30, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration officially released six supporting documents for the long-awaited reform of the electric power system. Respectively on the implementation opinion "to push forward the reform of distribution of electricity, the implementation opinions on promoting the construction of electric power market, the organization form and specification about the electric power business operation of the implementation opinions", put on the orderly development of electricity plan implementation opinion ", "about to push forward the reform of electricity sales implementation opinion" and "about strengthening and regulating the self-provided power plant of coal supervision and management of instruction meaning See ".

Comments: as the new electric reform 9 article follow-up landing of the specific implementation of the document, the six supporting documents released at the same time or instantly set off a huge wave in the industry. At the same time, with the approval of the National Development and Reform Commission to carry out the comprehensive pilot of power reform in Cloud and Guizhou provinces, Beijing and Guangzhou set up the power trading center, and the new power reform has been established, and the top-level design has been initially completed, and officially entered the practical operation stage. The embryonic form of the "generation, transmission, distribution and use" completely independent competitive power market is also gradually clear.

The 14th Session of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress was held on April 24, 2015. The decision on amending six laws including the Electricity Law of the People's Republic of China was deliberated and adopted. To amend the Electric Power Law of the People's Republic of China: delete paragraph 3 of Article 25 "A power supply business entity may apply to the administrative department for industry and commerce for a business license on the strength of the Power Supply Business License".

Comments: This is the first revision of the electricity law since it was promulgated 20 years ago. "A power supply business entity may apply to the administrative department for industry and commerce for a business license on the strength of the Power Supply Business License." The deletion is not only in line with The State Council's reform spirit of "license before license", but also further lays a legal foundation for promoting the reform of the electricity sales side. But setting up only one power supply agency in a region still goes against the spirit of the new plan.

On September 2, the National Development and Reform Commission issued guidelines on accelerating the construction and transformation of distribution networks. We will take steps from several aspects to accelerate the implementation of the central government's policy for steady growth and accelerate the construction and upgrading of distribution networks. On the last day of August, the website of the Energy Administration published the "Action Plan for the Construction and Transformation of the distribution network (2015-2020)", which proposed to effectively increase the capital investment of the distribution network through the implementation of the action plan for the construction and transformation of the distribution network. From 2015 to 2020, the investment in the construction and transformation of distribution networks will be no less than 2 trillion yuan, of which the investment in 2015 will be no less than 300 billion yuan, and the cumulative investment in the 13th Five-Year Plan period will be no less than 1.7 trillion yuan.

Comment ON: IN the LIST of pull domestic DEMAND THAT DELIMITS IN the country, DISTRIBUTION network BELONGS TO infrastructure THAT HAS NO PROBLEM. We can also see from the statement of the Energy Administration that "to promote the construction and transformation of the distribution network as a political task", that this round of distribution network construction feast has far more policy and financial support than before. Behind this 2 trillion cake is the most attractive, private investment may be involved in the construction of the distribution network.

On June 12, the National Development and Reform Commission posted a notice on its website, approving the first provincial grid transmission and distribution electricity price reform pilot plan, namely "Mengxi pilot plan". This is the second electric reform pilot area after Shenzhen. On May 31, the National Development and Reform Commission included Guizhou Province in the pilot reform of electricity transmission and distribution on the basis of Shenzhen, western Inner Mongolia, Anhui, Hubei, Ningxia and Yunnan (regions). At this point, the pilot scope expanded to 7 provinces and cities.

Comments: Mengxi power grid transmission and distribution electricity price reform pilot program is the second electricity reform pilot region after Shenzhen, is also the first provincial power grid transmission and distribution electricity price reform pilot program. Different from the Shenzhen pilot plan, the Munsey plan emphasizes the leading role of local governments in the electric reform, and strives to make local governments a positive force in promoting the electric reform.

December 22, recently, the National Development and Reform Commission issued a "Notice on improving the on-grid benchmark price policy of onshore wind and photovoltaic power generation". The Notice makes it clear that in 2016 and 2018, the benchmark electricity price of onshore wind power projects will be reduced by 2 cents and 3 cents for Class I, Class II and Class III resource areas respectively, and 1 cent and 2 cents for class IV resource areas respectively.

Comments: photovoltaic, wind power parity online is the general trend. According to the previously disclosed "13th Five-Year Plan" for renewable energy, by 2020, wind power should be connected to the grid at parity, and photovoltaic power should be connected to the user at parity. Although the reduction of the feed-in tariff will hit the confidence of new energy investment, with the gradual improvement of the situation of "abandoning wind" and "abandoning light", the adjusted benchmark electricity price policy will still maintain strong support for the new energy industry. In addition, the National Energy Administration has begun to solicit opinions, advocating that new energy sources give priority to signing full acquisition contracts with power grids, which is good news for wind power and photovoltaic.

Premier Li Keqiang presides over an executive meeting of The State Council on Dec 23. The meeting decided to lower the on-grid tariff for coal-fired power generation by about 3 cents per kilowatt-hour nationwide from January 1, 2016, in light of changes in power generation costs. The reduction will be mainly used to lower the selling price for general industry and commerce by the same amount, and to support the upgrading of coal-fired power plants with ultra-low emissions and the development of renewable energy.

Comment: The profitability of the thermal power industry and the coal industry is a well-known phenomenon. At present, the excessively rapid growth of thermal power installed capacity, output fell sharply, contradictions have emerged, feed-in tariff cut, choose at this point in time can reduce the social cost of electricity, and shows the government in open competitive link price before the will of coal linkage policy, highlighted the support for reducing carbon emissions, will encourage clean energy use, And the principle of equitable sharing of the costs of environmental governance.

On December 28, 2015, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, National Standards Committee, together with the National Energy Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other departments, issued the newly revised electric vehicle charging interface and communication protocol 5 national standards in Beijing, the new standards will be implemented on January 1, 2016.

Comments: in terms of security, new standards to increase the charging interface temperature monitoring, electronic lock, insulation monitoring and discharge circuit, and other functions, elaborated the dc charging car end interface security protection measures, explicitly prohibit unsafe charging mode of application, can effectively avoid personnel to get an electric shock, combustion equipment, such as accident, ensure charging of electric cars as well as the safety of the user; In terms of compatibility, ac/dc charging interface type and structure is compatible with the original standard, the new standards revised part contact and mechanical lock size, but the old and the new plug socket can cooperate with each other, dc charging interface increase electronic locking devices, does not affect the electrical connection between the old and new products, users only need to update the communication protocol version, New power supplies and electric vehicles can guarantee basic charging functions.

Source: Compiled and edited according to Polaris Power network

Responsible Editor: CAI Siwei