The energy storage industry needs to further improve policies

Currently, energy storage technology has been recognized and applied on a large scale, but the energy storage industry lacks an "identity card", and the dominant position of energy storage has not been clarified.

In an interview with the "Ninth International Energy Storage Summit and Exhibition" held recently, the reporter found that all parties from the government, experts, and enterprises are optimistic about the development prospects of my country's energy storage industry and believe that the industry has developed rapidly after years of accumulation. The cost of energy storage is rapidly falling.

　　 However, while the energy storage industry is developing rapidly, it is still facing a series of bottlenecks such as technical economy, application security, and market-oriented operation mechanism. From the perspective of industry insiders, the healthy and rapid development of the energy storage industry requires further improvement of policies, clear development scale goals and technical routes, and further improvement of the technical standard system.

　　Energy storage application hotspots switch frequently

　　 In recent years, my country's energy storage industry has developed rapidly. According to the incomplete statistics of CNESA's global energy storage project library, as of the end of June 2020, the cumulative installed capacity of China's operational energy storage projects reached 32.7GW, accounting for 17.6% of the global share. Among them, the cumulative installed capacity of electrochemical energy storage technology application reached 1831MW, an increase of 53.9% compared with the same period last year. "Despite the new crown pneumonia epidemic this year, our judgment that China's energy storage has entered the'spring' has not changed." Chen Haisheng, chairman of the Zhongguancun Energy Storage Industry Technology Alliance, said that in the past year, energy storage has experienced policy changes and the new crown pneumonia epidemic. , The development of the energy storage industry has also experienced some ups and downs, but from the overall, development and long-term perspectives, the overall situation of the rapid development of China’s energy storage has not changed, and the continuous driving force for the development of the energy storage industry has not changed. The good trend has not changed.

After more than ten years of development, the development of my country's energy storage industry continues to show diversified new trends, especially after the outbreak of grid-side energy storage, technical products of different routes emerge in an endless stream, such as lithium batteries, flow batteries, sodium-based batteries, compressed air, and storage New breakthroughs have been made in multiple technical routes of heat and flywheel.

Li Ye, Supervisory Director of the National Energy Administration, said that a variety of energy storage technologies are being applied to renewable energy consumption, distributed power systems and microgrids, power auxiliary services, power system flexibility and energy Internet through market-oriented methods. It can cover all links of energy and power production and consumption, and has achieved certain effects in technology and economy.

"From the perspective of industry development characteristics, my country's large-scale application of energy storage technology has made breakthrough progress, market participation has increased year by year, application hotspots are frequently switched, from user-side energy storage applications to grid-side energy storage explosions, and then to renewable energy support Energy storage is getting hot, and energy storage technology continues to seek technological breakthroughs and business model innovations in various fields." said Shi Yubo, executive vice chairman of the China Energy Research Association.

　　The integration of new energy and energy storage is getting closer

　　 Industry insiders interviewed by reporters generally believe that new energy + energy storage is more appropriate to consider the integration of the two from a strategic macro perspective. Especially in the past year, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Energy Administration, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and more than ten provinces and regions have issued relevant policies to encourage energy storage, which has stimulated the enthusiasm of renewable energy projects to allocate energy storage to a certain extent.

According to Dong Ling, general manager of Green Energy Data Co., Ltd., State Grid Qinghai Electric Power Company, as the proportion of new energy in the power system becomes higher and higher, it will inevitably require a large amount of adjustable resources, and energy storage is a very Good means to coordinate the time and space mismatch between power generation and load. "The future of energy storage is bright, but development also requires policy support, rather than blindly promoting the new energy + energy storage model."

　　 "Energy storage has been in development for more than ten years, and there is still no commercialization model." Wu Xianzhang, chairman of Zhejiang Nandu Energy Internet Operation Co., Ltd., told reporters, "In the future, we must figure out who energy storage serves and who will pay for it is more reasonable."