China News Service, Beijing, April 1 (Reporter Wang Enbo) China plans to carry out the "Wind Harnessing Action in Thousands of Townships and Tens of Thousands of Villages" and build a number of wind power plants for on-site and nearby development and utilization in rural areas of counties with conditions that meet the conditions during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. project. Officials said the move will open up a new growth pole for wind power development.
China's National Development and Reform Commission, National Energy Administration, and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced on the 1st a notice to organize the above-mentioned actions, proposing to coordinate economic and social development, ecological environment protection, power grid carrying capacity and production based on rural wind energy resources and scattered idle land resources in various regions. Operational safety, etc., rationally arrange the scale, projects and layout of wind power development and utilization on-site and nearby, and require related construction to "not rush in, not rush in".
Based on this, the notice clarifies that in principle, such wind power projects should not exceed 20 megawatts per administrative village, and proposes to explore a new wind power investment and construction model of "village-enterprise cooperation" and a new revenue distribution mechanism of "co-construction and sharing" to promote the construction of " There is a new pattern of wind power development and utilization in the village, the collective income increases, and the villagers benefit from it.”
The three departments explained that organizing this operation has important practical significance. At present, China's wind power is mainly developed on a large scale in the "Three North" regions. As low-wind speed power generation technology gradually matures, it is increasingly feasible and economical to develop wind power locally and nearby in the central and southeastern regions.
If 1,000 qualified villages are selected for pilot development every year, assuming that each village has an installed capacity of 20,000 kilowatts, an additional 20 million kilowatts of wind power installed capacity can be added annually, with an additional investment of approximately 100 billion yuan, which will open up new markets for wind power development. Space can also better play its role in promoting development, expanding investment, and stabilizing growth.
Since rural conditions vary across China, the notice requires provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) to first carry out pilot projects in qualified administrative villages, and then promote them in a timely manner after summarizing experience based on the pilot situation, rather than rolling it out across the entire province at once.
In order to support the smooth implementation of this action, the official will provide project land guarantee, grid connection and consumption guarantee, as well as financing, loans and other financial support. The three departments also emphasized that the construction of the "Thousands of Townships and Tens of Thousands of Villages Wind Control Action" project must "not compete with food for land", "not go against the interests of villagers" and "not touch environmental protection red lines". (over)