In order to implement the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Completely, Accurately and Comprehensively Implementing the New Development Concept and Doing a Good Job in Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutralization" and "The State Council's Notice on Printing and Distributing the Action Plan for Carbon Peaking Before 2030", and effectively implementing the Long-term Development Plan (2021-2035)" to promote the high-quality development of pumped storage. Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration jointly issued a notice to deploy and accelerate the development and construction of pumped storage projects during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.

The notice pointed out that accelerating the development of pumped hydro storage is important for accelerating the construction of a new power system, promoting the large-scale and high-proportion development of renewable energy, achieving the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, ensuring the safe and stable operation of the power system, improving the level of energy security, and promoting It plays an important role in expanding effective investment and maintaining stable and healthy economic and social development. The "14th Five-Year Plan" is a critical period for implementing the Medium and Long-Term Development Plan for Pumped Storage (2021-2035) and accelerating the high-quality development of pumped storage. It is of great significance to do a good job in the development and construction of pumped storage projects during the "14th Five-Year Plan".

The notice requires that the development and reform commissions and energy bureaus of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) take the development and construction of pumped storage projects as an important energy work at the moment, and strengthen organizational management and overall coordination. Organize the project unit to do a good job in the preliminary work of the project, urge the local government of the project to establish a working mechanism, and actively support and cooperate with the project unit to carry out the work. While speeding up the approval of projects, we will strengthen coordination among departments, and promote speeding up the approval procedures for project land use and environmental impact assessment, and projects that meet the conditions for starting construction will start construction as soon as possible.

The notice requires that central energy enterprises undertaking the development and construction of pumped storage projects should optimize and improve internal processes, improve project investment decision-making, bidding and other work efficiency, speed up the investment of capital, manpower and other elements, and support project approval and construction. In the planning and implementation of power grids, power grid enterprises should do a good job in the connection and connection with the construction of pumped storage projects in various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), and on the basis of the design of the project access system, speed up the construction of grid-connected projects.

The notice emphasizes that the coordination mechanism for land use security for major national projects should be well utilized, and land use security efforts should be increased for eligible pumped storage projects. In the whole process of the preliminary work of the pumped storage project, project construction and operation management, strictly implement the laws, regulations and relevant requirements of ecological environmental protection, implement ecological protection measures, and achieve coordinated development with the ecological environment. Taking the two-part electricity price as the main body, forming the electricity price through a competitive method, incorporating the capacity electricity price into the transmission and distribution price recovery, and promoting the pumped storage power station to participate in the market as an independent body.

The notice emphasizes that the management of the pumped storage industry should be strengthened, and a scheduling coordination mechanism should be established to coordinate and solve major problems. Give play to the role of industry organizations, and strengthen industry training, education and capacity improvement. Strengthen the coordination of industrial chains such as project investment, design, construction, and equipment manufacturing. In the area where the large-scale wind power photovoltaic base is located, the planning and construction of pumped storage should be well coordinated with the planning and project layout of the large-scale wind power photovoltaic base, as well as the transmission channels, so as to promote the power transmission.

The notice emphasizes that all units must, in accordance with the requirements, implement their responsibilities, intensify their efforts, and speed up their work to speed up the development and construction of pumped storage projects. The development and reform commissions and energy bureaus of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) are requested to speed up the approval of pumped storage projects in 2022 in accordance with the principle of doing all the checks and openings that can be used to ensure that a batch of projects are approved before the end of 2022, and the The connection of the subsequent annual approval work of the "14th Five-Year Plan" will promote the good, fast, large-scale and high-quality development of pumped storage. Editor / Xu Shengpeng