China Southern Power Grid s investment in user-side energy storage

Why is China Southern power grid developing a trading mechanism?

China Southern Power Grid is developing a trading mechanism to adapt to the participation of emerging market entities such as pumped storage, new energy storage and virtual power plants, designing flexible and diversified market demand response trading modes, and promoting the market construction of demand response in five southern provinces.

What is China Southern power grid?

Not only industrial users. China Southern Power Grid encourages all kinds of power market entities to tap peak shifting resources, and guides non-productive air conditioning loads, industrial loads, charging facilities, user side energy storage and other flexible loads to actively participate in demand response.

How many kilowatts will China Southern power grid put into operation?

According to the white paper, during the "14th five year plan" and "15th five year plan", China Southern Power Grid will put into operation 5 million kilowatts and 15 million kilowatts of pumped storage respectively, and put into operation 20 million kilowatts of new energy storage respectively.

How efficient is China's battery energy storage system?

In an interview with China Central Television, Gao Like, a manager at the Guangxi branch of China Southern Power Grid, said that the energy conversion efficiency of its sodium-ion battery energy storage system exceeds 92%. It’s comparable to the efficiency of common lithium-ion battery storage systems, at 85-95%.

Why did China Southern power grid release a white paper in Guangzhou?

On May 15, China Southern Power Grid released the white paper of action plan of China Southern Power Grid for the construction of new power system (2021-2030) (hereinafter referred to as "white paper") in Guangzhou, and held an expert seminar on digital grid to promote the construction of new power system.

How much energy storage will China have by 2023?

By 2023, an additional 21.5 GW of energy storage had been installed, with over 95% of this capacity being lithium battery-based electrochemical storage (CIAPS, 2024). Several regions in China have already mandated wind and solar power plants to integrate a certain amount of energy storage capacity.