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POWER IN CHINA
Solutions and Suggestions
Given the problems outlined above, China
should endeavor to take action toward the
following three goals.
Strengthen Research on Key Technology
and Perfect Wind-Equipment
Manufacturing Industry Policies to Comprehensively
Improve Manufacturing.
Industry policy improvements are required to
make the equipment manufacturing industry
avoid irrational competition. Strict equipment
manufacturing standards and authentication
systems should be established, and
wind turbine series directories and standard
accessories should be set up to guide orderly
research and development.
Efforts should be made to strengthen research
efforts on key pieces of equipment
with more investment devoted to technology
innovation. As a start, China should arrange a
series of major projects in wind power manufacturing
to improve wind turbine design and
development with an eye toward reliable and
stable operations.
China Should Adopt a Comprehensive
Approach to Wind Resource Planning. As
a first step, policies should encourage taking a
comprehensive approach to wind power and the
construction of transmission lines. China should
keep a balance and a connection between wind
power development and the grid's construction.
In areas where wind resources are abundant,
grid construction should be enhanced and attention
should be paid to improving the grid to
meet the requirements of wind power development.
Moreover, China needs to strengthen the
construction of tie-lines between provinces to
improve transmission as well as the grid's ability
to accept wind power.
As a second step, China must better integrate
wind power, peaking power supplies,
and frequency-tuned (frequency regulation)
power supplies. The construction of flexible,
dispatchable power sources such as pumpedstorage
power plants, gas-fired plants, and
conventional hydropower plants should be
speeded up, and fossil-fueled plants could
be encouraged to take part in peak-regulating
operations. What's more, policies aimed at
linking renewable energy and frequencytuned
power sources should be carried out
to promote the coordinated development of
wind power, thermal power, and hydropower.
These could be further expanded to meet the
demand of large-scale grid integration.
As a third step, China should take a comprehensive
view of economic development
and wind power development planning to
ensure resources are developed on the basis
of available wind resources and local load.
China also needs to make the location of energy-loaded
industries compatible with those
areas rich in wind resources.
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As a fourth step, China needs to add more
ways to consume wind power at its point of
production. China should combine both distributed
and centralized wind power, encourage
areas to utilize distributed wind power,
strengthen the construction of distribution
networks, and improve in-situ wind power
consumption. Furthermore, China needs to
strengthen demand-side management in areas
rich in wind power, improve load characteristics,
and encourage and use smart grid
technologies to promote the consumption of
wind power.
As a fifth step, China needs to build an information
communication mechanism for wind
energy exploration and grid planning. China
should appropriately arrange early grid engineering
work according to relevant departments'
wind power and transmission planning, making
efforts to keep grid construction and wind power
development in step with one another.
Improve National Regulations and
Standards. China should build a national
wind-power standard and regulation system that
covers the process of research and manufacturing,
planning and construction, installation, integration
detection, and operation management in
an effort to promote the standard development
of its wind power industry.
Relevant policies that promote the wind
power industry need to be improved. Administrative
regulations and policies that
support renewable energy law need to be
developed, including price subsidies for
peak and frequency regulation, and reasonable
compensation standards for grid
integration.
Moreover, policies need to be developed
covering the on-grid price of distributed
wind power, peak and off-peak prices on the
supply side, and interruptible prices on the
demand side to help promote wind power
consumption.
Finally, studies should be undertaken to
examine green-certificate systems and consumption
policies that encourage renewable
energy subscriptions.
Pursuing these steps will help encourage
the whole of Chinese society to actively explore
and consume renewable energy such as
wind power. ■
-Zeng Ming, Xue Song, Li Ling-yun,
Cheng Huan, and Zhang Ge are with
the School of Economics and Management,
North China Electric Power
University, Beijing, China. The authors
may be contacted through Li Ling-yun at
lilingyunncepu@126.com.
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