China News Service, Urumqi, August 9th (Hu Peigen and Yi Bingxing) On the 9th, it was learned from Xinjiang Electric Power Exchange Center Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the Exchange Center) that the Xinjiang Electricity Market has been organizing green power transactions on time every month since this month. Continue to expand the scale of new energy consumption.
Green electricity refers to the zero or close to zero carbon dioxide emissions in the process of producing electricity, because compared to electricity produced by other methods, it has a lower impact on the environment.
The main sources of green electricity are solar energy, wind power, biomass energy, and geothermal energy.
Since the “carbon peak and carbon neutrality” goal was put forward, Xinjiang has accelerated the exploration of market-oriented methods to promote the consumption of new energy, introduced relevant policies and measures to enhance the enthusiasm of new energy companies to participate in the market, and guide more market entities to participate in the marketization of new energy trade.
The opening of green power trading on a monthly basis means that green power trading has detailed plans and clear plans, and the frequency has increased significantly compared to before. More market entities such as new energy companies, thermal power companies, and electricity customers will participate in the green power market. The transaction is in progress.
Regarding the supporting power supply for the Hami South-Zhengzhou ±800 kV UHV DC transmission project, the trading center has organized a batch of green power peak shaving alternative transactions, with 30.88 million kilowatt-hours of electricity traded. The response of the green power trading market was better than expected.
According to Zhao Hailing, who is in charge of the trading department of the trading center, alternative green power peak shaving transactions not only increase the power generation of new energy companies, but also reduce the power generation cost of coal-fired captive power plants, and reduce environmental pollution, achieving a win-win situation for all parties.
Xinjiang is currently in strong demand for green electricity trading, and it is estimated that it can consume about 100 million kWh of green electricity every month.
Since the establishment of the trading center in March 2016, it has continuously innovated market-oriented trading products, promoted various types of new energy alternative transactions, continued to deepen the reform of the power system, completed the shareholding reform of the trading center, achieved full access to power market-oriented transactions, and removed the proportion of green power Do not exceed the limit of 13%, and make every effort to promote the consumption of new energy.
Data shows that the trading center has organized 54 batches of electricity market-oriented transactions in the first half of this year, of which the green power transaction volume was 14.1 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase of 90%. 3,600 various market entities benefited from this, which greatly promoted the development of new energy. And digestion.
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