National Development and Reform Commission: Wind power grid prices will be adjusted in a timely manner this year

    The Report on the Implementation of the 2013 National Economic and Social Development Plan and the 2014 Draft National Economic and Social Development Plan proposed by the National Development and Reform Commission at the second meeting of the 12th National People''s Congress on the 5th proposed that the price reform of resource products should continue, with "timely adjustment of wind power grid prices" as the top priority. Qin Haiyan, secretary-general of China Wind Energy Association, called for a reasonable adjustment of the current wind power grid price, but the ultimate goal of price reform should not be to reduce the price.

    Call for cautious consideration of lowering electricity prices.

    As for the price reform of resource goods, the NDRC proposed in the above draft report that it is necessary to carry out the pilot reform of transmission and distribution electricity prices, improve the linkage mechanism of coal and electricity prices and pumped storage electricity prices, timely adjust the price of natural gas for non-residential use, and establish and improve a series of measures such as the ladder price system for residential water and gas use. Among them, timely adjustment of the price of wind power online is listed in the first place of price reform of resource products.

    "The price adjustment is not to reduce the price of wind power, but to support the development of wind power with a more reasonable price." Qin Haiyan, secretary general of the China Wind Energy Association, called on the government to actively develop new energy such as wind power in the case of such serious smog, and policies should be complementary to each other. Therefore, timely adjustment of wind power prices, you can consider the introduction of offshore wind power prices, or adjust the wind power feed-in tariff standards in different wind resource areas, but the overall reduction of wind power feed-in tariff is not yet time.

    Historically, the cost of wind power generation is declining, and the subsidy level of wind power electricity price is bound to gradually reduce, and the ultimate goal of the price subsidy policy is to make the price of wind power competitive compared with the price of conventional energy. However, compared with 2009, in recent years, wind power abandonment and power rationing have led to serious losses for developers, and the issuance of additional funds for renewable energy has lagged seriously, and the cash flow of enterprises is tight. In addition, the impact of the European debt crisis and the economic environment has severely shrunk the income of CDM business, which was booming in previous years.

    At the same time, the construction cost of wind power projects, the land acquisition cost of wind farms and labor costs continue to rise, and the input of wind power projects for soil and water conservation, environmental assessment, testing and acceptance and resource surcharges continue to increase. In addition, many wind power equipment or not out of the warranty, or just out of the warranty, the actual operation period has not begun, the real cost and profit of wind power projects are not yet assessed conditions.

    In view of this, Qin Haiyan believes that the reduction of electricity prices will lead to more tension in the industrial capital chain, and destroy the wind power business that developers have been hovering on the edge of profit and loss, and then drag down upstream equipment manufacturing enterprises, on the other hand, the level of electricity prices is directly related to the income of power generation enterprises, and the reduction of electricity prices will seriously hurt the enthusiasm of enterprises to develop wind power.

    Suggest increasing subsidies in the Middle East.

    Qin Haiyan believes that the premise of wind power price adjustment is to improve the serious phenomenon of wind curtailment, speed up the settlement of renewable energy additional funds, encourage banks to expand the financing of wind power enterprises, put an end to the phenomenon of arbitrary charges by local governments, etc., to ensure the stability of wind power project income, there is a basis for re-evaluation and adjustment of electricity prices.

    Secondly, the adjustment of wind power prices should be fully investigated in advance. At present, even if it is the same on-grid electricity price, the profitability of each wind power project is also very different. Therefore, the adjustment of the wind power price level needs to take into account wind energy resources, project construction investment and grid-connected situation, scientifically calculate the project cost, and then design a set of systematic and detailed wind power price standards.

    Third, wind power projects have a tendency to tilt to the central and eastern regions, considering that the level of wind power price subsidies in these regions is lower than the "three North" and other wind energy resource conditions are good, you can appropriately increase the subsidies for wind power projects in these areas. "Electricity prices cannot be adjusted just for the sake of it. At this stage, China''s wind power industry also needs strong policy support, if the price of electricity is lowered blindly at this time, it will go against the original intention of industrial development, and finally backfire, but cause a great waste of social resources." Qin Haiyan said.

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