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Carry out pilot work on large-scale application of vehicle-grid interaction: Promote the charging of new energy vehicles and promote the construction of smart charging piles

Strengthen the application and promotion of smart and orderly charging. Formulate and improve relevant technical requirements for intelligent charging and swapping facilities, and promote the construction, replacement or transformation of smart and orderly charging piles. Promote the construction of smart and orderly charging pilot communities, and establish a smart and orderly charging management system for residential communities.

Recently, the General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission and other four departments jointly issued a notice on promoting pilot work on large-scale application of vehicle-grid interaction.

It mentioned that the orderly charging of new energy vehicles should be fully promoted, the scale of two-way charging and discharging (V2G) projects should be expanded, and the application scenarios of vehicle-grid interaction should be enriched. With cities as the main body, the large-scale and sustainable vehicle-grid interaction policy mechanism should be improved, and V2G projects should be the main body to explore business models with advanced technology, clear models, and replicable promotion, and strive to guide the large-scale development of vehicle-grid interaction with market-oriented mechanisms.

The regions participating in the pilot should fully implement the peak and valley time-of-use electricity price for charging, and strive to concentrate more than 60% of the annual charging power in the valley period, of which more than 80% of the power charged through private piles is concentrated in the valley period. In principle, the total discharge power of the V2G projects participating in the pilot project shall not be less than 500 kilowatts, and the annual discharge shall not be less than 100,000 kWh. The western region may appropriately reduce it.

It also mentioned that the application and promotion of intelligent and orderly charging should be strengthened. Formulate and improve the relevant technical requirements for the intelligentization of charging and swapping facilities, and promote the construction, replacement or transformation of intelligent and orderly charging piles. Promote the construction of intelligent and orderly charging pilot communities, establish an intelligent and orderly charging management system for residential communities, and effectively improve the access capacity of personal intelligent piles on the basis of ensuring the safe operation of the power grid. Improve the interactive capabilities of charging and swapping stations, study and optimize the capacity verification methods and grid-connected operation rules, and carry out pilot projects to optimize the access capacity of intelligent charging and swapping stations.

Notice of the General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission and others on promoting the pilot work of large-scale application of vehicle-grid interaction

Development and Reform Office Energy [2024] No. 718

Development and Reform Commissions, Energy Bureaus, industrial and information technology departments, market supervision departments of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Beijing Municipal Urban Management Committee, Shanghai Municipal Transportation Committee, Henan Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, all dispatched agencies of the National Energy Administration, State Grid Corporation of China, China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd., China Electricity Council:

In order to implement the strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on carbon peak and carbon neutrality, support the construction of new energy systems and new power systems, and promote the integration and interaction of new energy vehicles and power grids, in accordance with the "Guiding Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Further Building a High-quality Charging Infrastructure System" (Guobanfa [2023] No. 19) and the "Implementation Opinions of the National Development and Reform Commission and Other Departments on Strengthening the Integration and Interaction of New Energy Vehicles and Power Grids" (Development and Reform Energy [2023] No. 1721), the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Energy Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the State Administration for Market Regulation will carry out large-scale application pilots of vehicle-grid interaction across the country. The relevant matters are hereby notified as follows.

I. General requirements

In accordance with the principle of "innovation-led, first-practice", we will comprehensively promote the orderly charging of new energy vehicles, expand the scale of two-way charging and discharging (V2G) projects, enrich the application scenarios of vehicle-grid interaction, improve the large-scale and sustainable vehicle-grid interaction policy mechanism with cities as the main body, explore the business model with advanced technology, clear model and replicable promotion with V2G projects as the main body, and strive to guide the large-scale development of vehicle-grid interaction with market-oriented mechanisms. The regions participating in the pilot should fully implement the peak and valley time-of-use electricity price for charging, and strive to concentrate more than 60% of the annual charging power in the valley period, of which more than 80% of the power charged by private piles is concentrated in the valley period. In principle, the total discharge power of the V2G projects participating in the pilot shall not be less than 500 kilowatts, and the annual discharge shall not be less than 100,000 kWh, which can be appropriately reduced in the western region.

II. Key tasks

(I) Give play to the incentive role of the power market. Gradually improve the trading rules for the participation of vehicle-grid interactive resources in the power market, promote the scale and normalization of charging loads in power market transactions, support the exploration of the business model of load aggregators participating in the power market, promote the cultivation of various new business entities in the power market, and gradually form a load aggregation business model with clear models, stable development, and conditions for promotion. Encourage V2G projects to participate in the power spot, green power trading, and energy storage capacity leasing markets to verify the equivalent energy storage potential of V2G resources.

(II) Improve the price and demand response mechanism. Establish and improve the peak and valley time-of-use electricity price mechanism for residents' charging, encourage the establishment of a differentiated price system around residents' charging loads and residents' living loads, optimize the setting of peak and valley time periods, and reasonably expand the peak and valley price difference; explore the price mechanism for new energy vehicles and charging and swapping stations to discharge to the power grid. Innovate the demand response mechanism, enrich the demand response varieties, and increase the frequency of user participation and the scale of response.

(III) Strengthen the application and promotion of intelligent and orderly charging. Formulate and improve the relevant technical requirements for the intelligence of charging and swapping facilities, and promote the construction, replacement or transformation of intelligent and orderly charging piles. Promote the construction of smart and orderly charging pilot communities, establish a smart and orderly charging management system for residential communities, and effectively improve the access capacity of personal smart piles on the basis of ensuring the safe operation of the power grid. Improve the interactive capabilities of charging and swapping stations, study and optimize the capacity verification method and grid-connected operation rules, and carry out pilot projects for optimizing the access capacity of smart charging and swapping stations.

(IV) Promote collaborative innovation of V2G technologies and models. Explore V2G technologies and models that are efficiently integrated with scenes such as parks, buildings, and residences to meet the V2G application needs of public and private vehicles. Support relevant companies to jointly carry out V2G project applications, and encourage car companies and battery companies to improve the battery quality assurance system and enhance battery technology. Explore the use of the national monitoring and power battery recycling and traceability integrated management platform for new energy vehicles to carry out battery status assessment of V2G projects.

(V) Strengthen work guarantees and effective guidance. Strengthen the implementation and application of standards to support the effective promotion of large-scale application of vehicle-grid interaction. Actively play the role of the charging facility monitoring service platform, and establish and improve the vehicle-grid interaction data access and evaluation mechanism. Strengthen user rights protection, strengthen publicity and popularization of science, and enhance user participation willingness. Increase the protection of power grid enterprises, and provide services such as resource access, network access testing, grid connection metering, dispatching and operation, and clearing and settlement.

III. Organization and implementation

(I) The departments in charge of the development of charging facilities in each province (autonomous region, municipality) are requested to work with relevant departments and the dispatched agencies of the National Energy Administration to recommend cities and V2G projects in their regions that are willing to participate in the large-scale application of vehicle-grid interaction. In principle, each province (autonomous region, municipality) shall recommend no more than one city, and regions with relatively mature conditions such as the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei-Shandong, Sichuan and Chongqing may be appropriately relaxed to two. In principle, each province (autonomous region, municipality) shall recommend no more than five V2G projects (no more than one battery swapping project), and a single project may be a collection of dispersed facilities in the same city by the same implementing entity.

(II) The departments in charge of the development of charging facilities in each province (autonomous region, municipality) are requested to compile relevant materials in accordance with the requirements of the attachment, and send the paper version of the materials to the Power Department of the National Energy Administration with a seal before October 31, 2024. The National Development and Reform Commission, the National Energy Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the State Administration for Market Regulation will organize expert reviews in due course, and select no less than 5 cities with good development foundations, strong policies, and strong driving effects, and no less than 50 V2G projects to be included in the scope of this pilot.

(III) Departments at all levels that are responsible for the development of charging facilities must strictly implement their main responsibilities, increase coordination with relevant departments, actively innovate policy mechanisms and regulatory methods, and encourage relevant companies to explore new technologies, new industries (68.590, -0.51, -0.74%), new formats, and new models for vehicle-grid interaction. Provincial price authorities should study and improve supporting electricity price policies such as peak and valley time-sharing; power operation authorities should gradually improve demand response mechanisms; National Energy Administration dispatched agencies should promote the improvement of electricity market access conditions and trading rules within their jurisdictions, enrich electricity trading varieties, give play to the synergy of market mechanisms and electricity price policies, and support the development of vehicle-grid interaction.

(IV) The National Development and Reform Commission, the National Energy Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the State Administration for Market Regulation will coordinate and guide the pilot work of large-scale application of vehicle-network interaction in various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), coordinate with relevant local departments to solve practical problems in the work, and promote the promotion of typical experiences and mature models across the country in a timely manner.

General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission

General Office of the National Energy Administration

General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

General Office of the State Administration for Market Regulation

August 23, 2024