Wind Power Approval Plan Inventory for 2011-2012

In order to promote the healthy, orderly and sustainable development of the wind power industry in China, the National Competent Authority has started to strengthen the project approval management since entering the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period. It has adopted a batch of issued wind power project approval plans to control the development of wind power in various regions. Rhythm and quality. Since the inclusion of the approved plan is equivalent to the prior work for the consent of the project, the hot topics such as project scale and project approval progress for all localities in the approved plan have always been the focus of attention of various stakeholders in the industry. Under the current background of slower development of domestic wind power and the increasingly severe situation of wind power consumption, a comprehensive review of wind power approval plans in the past two years is needed to sort out the achievements and problems in the development of wind power and provide lessons for the scientific development of medium and long-term wind power. With reflection.

(1) 2011 wind power approval plan
For the whole year of 2011, the national competent authority issued the first batch of wind power approval plans for the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” with a total scale of 26.83 million kilowatts. In July 2011, the National Energy Administration issued the “Circular on the Planned Approval of the First Batch of Planned Wind Power Projects for the Twelfth Five-Year Plan,” and based on a total of approximately 60 million kilowatts of wind power projects submitted for approval, the country’s 29 provinces were The district and city plan to approve 26.83 million kilowatts of wind power projects.

From the perspective of regional distribution, the wind power project approval plan for 2011 is focused on the "Three North" region, as shown in Figure 1. Among them are: 8.55 million kilowatts in North China, 8.87 million kilowatts in Northeast China, and 4.07 million kilowatts in Northwest China, respectively. %, 33% and 15%; East China is 1.76 million kilowatts, Central China is 1.48 million kilowatts, and South is 2.1 million kilowatts, accounting for 7%, 5% and 8% of the national scale.

(2) Wind Power Approval Plan for 2012

For the whole year of 2012, the national competent authority issued the second batch of wind power approval plans for the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, independently approved base projects that were not previously listed in the approved plans, and added the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” wind power approval plans for certain regions. The scale reached 16.76 million kilowatts, 3 million kilowatts, and 5.21 million kilowatts respectively, which totaled 24.97 million kilowatts.

In March 2012, the National Energy Administration issued the “Circular on the Approval Plan for the Second Batch of Wind Power Projects in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, and agreed to include the projects with sufficient preliminary work and the implementation of power grid access conditions in the second batch of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”. It is planned to approve wind power project plans totaling 16.76 million kilowatts, including 14.92 million kilowatts of conventional projects, 1 million kilowatts of wind power grid demonstration projects, and 837,000 kilowatts of distributed access wind power projects.

From August to September 2012, the National Energy Administration approved the first batch of 3 million kilowatts of Jiuquan wind power plant in Phase II, the 1.4 million kilowatts of Damaoqi wind power base in Inner Mongolia, and the 2 million kilowatts wind power project in southeastern wind farm in Hami, Xinjiang, etc., including Jiuquan. The 3 million kilowatt project belongs to a project that was not included in the first and second batch of approved plans.

In November 2012, the National Energy Administration issued the Notice on Supplementing the "Twelfth-Five-Year" Wind Power Approval Scheme for Some Provinces and Autonomous Regions, supplementing 112 wind power projects in Shanxi, Zhejiang, and Anhui with a total scale of 5.21 million kilowatts.

From the perspective of regional distribution, the regional distribution of wind power projects in 2012 was more evenly distributed. As shown in Figure 2, the scale of approved projects in the “Three North” region moderately slowed, including 6.16 million kilowatts in North China and 1.16 million kilowatts in northeastern China. 5.10 million kilowatts, accounting for 25%, 5% and 20% of the national scale; East China, 3.83 million kilowatts, Central China, 4.39 million kilowatts, and the South, 4.42 million kilowatts, accounting for 15% and 17% of the national scale respectively. 18%.

Judging from the scale of national approval, although the number of batches approved in 2012 is relatively large, the total size of the approved 24.97 million kilowatts in 2012 is basically equivalent to the total size of the approved plan of 26.83 million kilowatts in 2011. Considering the current grid-connected capacity, the approved construction scale, and the approved plan scale for 2011-2012, the scale of grid-connected wind power across the country will exceed 110 million kilowatts, which exceeds the 2015 national wind power development target.

(3) Outlook for wind power approval plan

The wind power approval plan is one of the management means for the national competent authority to regulate the speed and quality of wind power development. It should not only maintain close coordination with the national energy and renewable energy development plans at the macro level, but also ensure the balanced and orderly development of the wind power industry. At the micro level, the stakeholders of wind power development have released clear signals to promote the implementation of project construction conditions, especially the implementation of grid access and market acceptance conditions.

At the macro level, the method of issuing wind power plans in batches to a certain extent has, to a certain extent, curbed the phenomenon of disorderly development of wind power in some regions. However, from the perspective of the scale of approved plans, the average annual approval plan for 25 million kilowatts for 2011-2012 is obviously high, which is inconsistent with the national planning goals, and also brings serious difficulties to the supporting cross-regional power grid planning and wind power consumption situation. Challenges; From the approval progress of the approved plans, 1 batch was issued in 2011, and 3 batches were actually released in 2012. Separate approval and supplement of approved plans have reduced the authority and effectiveness of project management.

At the micro level: The wind power approval scheme is not only related to the interests of wind power equipment manufacturers, developers and other related parties, but also closely related to the planning and construction of supporting power grids. The scale of the annual approval plan equals to the parties to specify the total scale of new wind power. At present, the overcapacity rate of domestic wind power industry is above 50%. The guiding role of the approved plan needs to be further strengthened. In addition, due to the delay in the construction of cross-regional access, it is difficult for some wind power approval program projects to implement the market acceptance, and it is also a question that the relevant competent authorities must attach great importance to.

In order to realize wind power development goals and take into account the local economic development, the progress of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” and medium- and long-term wind power approval plans should maintain a balanced and orderly rhythm, develop a more robust approval plan, fully absorb lessons learned from wind power development in recent years, and make unified plans for wind power approval. The relationship between planning and grid construction and market absorption, ensuring the effective convergence of approved plans with relevant national plans, guiding equipment manufacturers to set reasonable production capacity, avoiding duplication of investment and waste of resources, encouraging developers to improve wind farm operation and management, and promoting wind power industry Scientific development.