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Author: Source: the Internet Published time: September 25, 2013
The National Energy Administration has, pursuant to relevant laws and regulations, formulated the following Provisional Methods for PV Power Station Management, (GXNY Doc. No. 329 (2013) and Methods in short) in order to standardize PV project management, guarantee the safe and reliable operations of PV power stations and power systems, and promote the sustainable and healthy development of the PV power generation sector. The Methods shall come into effect as of August 29, 2013.
The Methods are applicable to PV power station projects built, operated, and managed as pubic electric power supplies. The contents of PV power station project management include the administration, technology management, and safety supervision at such aspects as planning guidance and scale management, project filing management, grid feed-in and operations, industry monitoring, and market supervision. PV-Tech summarizes the key points as follows:
As to planning guidance and scale management, the Methods provides that the energy authority of the State Council determines the scale and distribution of PV power stations nationwide and the annual development scale for each province (region or municipality) in accordance with the state’s energy development plan and renewable energy development plan after thorough discussions on solar energy resources, the cost-efficiency of PV power station technology, power demand, and grid conditions in various areas. After the provincial energy authority makes the annual implementing scheme for the local PV power station based on the national plan, local annual scale quota, and opinions on development and deployment and in accordance with the principle “plan coordination, deployment management, nearest access, and local absorption”, it submits the scheme to the energy authority of the State Council at the end of December. The latter confirms the annual scheme for PV power stations requiring state subsidies according to the actual situation. The completion status of a region’s annual implementing scheme serves as an important basis for the energy authority of the State Council in determining the annual guidance scale of this region for the following year. In a region where the problem of abandoning PV and limiting power output, the energy authority of the State Council will stop approving or reduce the annual guidance scale quota and annual implementing scheme in its review.
As to project filing management, the Methods requires that such preparations as site planning and selection, resource appraisal, discussions of construction conditions, and market demand analysis should be made prior to the launch of a PV power station project. The Methods particularly requires that the results should be assessed based on the project site selection data or data about representative solar energy radiation onsite for one consecutive year and relevant solar energy resources. The energy authority should upgrade filing management of PV projects. After project filing, project implementation should be sped up.
The relevant departments of the State Council shall include eligible filed projects in the renewable energy subsidy catalogue, while those PV power stations not included therein may not benefit from the subsidy from the national renewable energy development foundation. The energy authority of the State Council shall, if necessary, organize the local government to select an enterprise as the project investor through competitive bids and determine the amount of the state subsidy for the project. The scale of a project thus implemented shall be calculated as the annual guidance scale quota for the local region.
As to grid feed-in and operations, the Methods requires that the supportive outbound power project of the power station should be coordinated with the construction of the PV power station. The PV power station project owner is responsible for investing in and building the collecting power line and booster station project inside the project site, while the grid enterprise shall be responsible for investing in and building the auxiliary outbound power project outside the project site. The provincial grid enterprise shall issue the opinion on the grid feed-in of the PV power station, while a prefecture-level or county-level power grid enterprise may issue the opinion on the grid feed-in of a distributed PV power station of less than 6mW. After the project owner has submitted an application for the grid feed-in system design report review, the grid enterprise shall, in principle, issue its review opinion within 60 workdays. Within 45 days after the project owner has submitted a grid feed-in commissioning application, the grid enterprise shall cooperate in grid feed-in commissioning and completion acceptance, and sign a grid connection dispatching agreement and electric power purchase and sales agreement.
As to monitoring and supervision, the Methods provides that the energy authority of the State Council shall be responsible for strengthening PV station supervision, the provincial energy authority shall standardize the market order for PV power station development in the local region, the project owner shall be responsible for PV power station O&M, and the grid enterprise shall strengthen dispatching to guarantee the full-amount acquisition of power generation. Besides, the energy authority of the State Council shall organize consultancies to assess the development and operations of a key project that has been running for more than one year.
