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demonstration and pre-commercialization support, and focus on building large-scale,
high-performance, and highly reliable energy storage systems; to provide financial
support for the early market players of new business models, so that emerging energy
storage technologies and their operation models can be quickly introduced into the
market; to reinforce supervision on the operation of energy storage power stations
and enhance the market mechanism of energy storage application; to develop a sound
pricing and compensation strategy to increase benefits to energy storage providers
for their role in system regulation and auxiliary services; to offer economic compensation for user-side distributed energy storage; to put in place a robust mediumand-short term power market mechanism, increase market openness, and encourage
competition and emerging market models; to channel private investment into energy
storage development, and streamline the financing procedure of new and large storage
systems.
2. Multi-energy complementary and integrated development should start with
the convergence of electricity and heating, which represents the crucial first
step towards the vision of the energy internet.
(1) Facilitate the clean and efficient development of summer air conditioning
and winter heating in central China to meet the increasing demands of
urban and rural residents for living comfort.
As China prioritizes its northern region for promoting clean and efficient winter
heating, tailor-made efforts should also be made to target the vast central region to
scale up individual or centralized air source, ground source heat pump together with
sunlight, heat storage and other efficient and clean approaches of air conditioning and
heating by harnessing state-of-the-art technologies and economic incentives. Where
conditions permit, distributed solar power generation could also be combined. The
sole dependence on traditional air conditioner leads to highly concentrated load in
summer and poor comfort and low energy efficiency in winter. This must be changed
to meet the pursuit of urban and rural residents for a better life.
(2) Prompt energy-intensive industrial enterprises to strengthen energy
conservation and multi-energy complementation.
The improvement of end-use energy efficiency contributes the most to the overall
efficiency of the energy system. It’s advised to carry out in-depth investigations
into various energy use in enterprises and put forward suggestions on technological
measures and policy incentives. Existing studies have shown that it’s most effective
to realize multi-energy complementary use of coal, gas and electricity and recycling
of waste heat within large enterprises. But policy measures, including promoting
win-win cooperation between energy sectors, as well as finance and taxation, need
to be formulated through further investigation and research.
(3) Intensify R&D and industrialization of key technologies and equipments
to provide technical support for building China’s energy internet.
Z. Lu and G. Zhu
demonstration and pre-commercialization support, and focus on building large-scale,
high-performance, and highly reliable energy storage systems; to provide financial
support for the early market players of new business models, so that emerging energy
storage technologies and their operation models can be quickly introduced into the
market; to reinforce supervision on the operation of energy storage power stations
and enhance the market mechanism of energy storage application; to develop a sound
pricing and compensation strategy to increase benefits to energy storage providers
for their role in system regulation and auxiliary services; to offer economic compensation for user-side distributed energy storage; to put in place a robust mediumand-short term power market mechanism, increase market openness, and encourage
competition and emerging market models; to channel private investment into energy
storage development, and streamline the financing procedure of new and large storage
systems.
2. Multi-energy complementary and integrated development should start with
the convergence of electricity and heating, which represents the crucial first
step towards the vision of the energy internet.
(1) Facilitate the clean and efficient development of summer air conditioning
and winter heating in central China to meet the increasing demands of
urban and rural residents for living comfort.
As China prioritizes its northern region for promoting clean and efficient winter
heating, tailor-made efforts should also be made to target the vast central region to
scale up individual or centralized air source, ground source heat pump together with
sunlight, heat storage and other efficient and clean approaches of air conditioning and
heating by harnessing state-of-the-art technologies and economic incentives. Where
conditions permit, distributed solar power generation could also be combined. The
sole dependence on traditional air conditioner leads to highly concentrated load in
summer and poor comfort and low energy efficiency in winter. This must be changed
to meet the pursuit of urban and rural residents for a better life.
(2) Prompt energy-intensive industrial enterprises to strengthen energy
conservation and multi-energy complementation.
The improvement of end-use energy efficiency contributes the most to the overall
efficiency of the energy system. It’s advised to carry out in-depth investigations
into various energy use in enterprises and put forward suggestions on technological
measures and policy incentives. Existing studies have shown that it’s most effective
to realize multi-energy complementary use of coal, gas and electricity and recycling
of waste heat within large enterprises. But policy measures, including promoting
win-win cooperation between energy sectors, as well as finance and taxation, need
to be formulated through further investigation and research.
(3) Intensify R&D and industrialization of key technologies and equipments
to provide technical support for building China’s energy internet.