State Grid unveils measures to boost renewable energy grid access and cut rural outages
On September 16, State Grid Corporation of China released measures to modernize its electricity business environment, focusing on fair grid access for renewables, new energy storage, and source-grid-load-storage projects. The plan targets adding over 60 million kilowatts of distributed power annually during the 15th Five-Year Plan and reducing rural power outage duration by over 30% by 2030 versus 2025. It also promotes cross-provincial services, supports zero-carbon industrial parks, and ensures reliable power for chip and biopharma sectors.
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State Grid Unveils Measures for Fair Grid Connection of Renewable Energy and Storage
On September 16, State Grid Corporation of China released a set of measures aimed at creating a modernized electricity business environment to empower high-quality economic and social development. A key component of these measures is actively serving the development of new entities and business models, including renewable energy, new-type energy storage, and source-grid-load-storage integration. The company pledged to provide fair and efficient grid connection services for these entities. Specifically, State Grid will standardize and disclose information on available capacity in distribution networks, ensuring that distributed power sources with an average annual addition of over 60 million kilowatts during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period can be connected to the grid in a timely manner. Additionally, the company will ensure high-quality electricity metering and billing settlement services and actively support new entities in participating in the electricity market.
Read sourceState Grid to Boost Power Reliability for Chip, Biopharma, and Precision Machining Firms
State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) announced a set of measures to build a modern electricity business environment and support high-quality economic development. The plan emphasizes ensuring highly reliable power supply for 'new-quality productive forces,' specifically targeting sectors such as chip manufacturing, precision machining, and biopharmaceuticals. SGCC will strengthen condition monitoring and operation & maintenance of substations and transmission lines around key enterprises in these sectors. The company will also optimize grid structures and customer connection solutions, and provide tailored 'one enterprise, one policy' guidance to help customers configure uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and other devices. The goal is to enhance the overall safety and stability of operations for these critical industries.
Read sourceState Grid: Rural Power Outage Time to Drop Over 30% by 2030 vs 2025
On September 16, State Grid Corporation of China announced a series of measures to modernize the electricity business environment and support high-quality economic and social development. Key targets include completing upgrades of backbone grid networks in weak county-level areas during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, and reducing the annual average outage time per household in rural power grids by more than 30% by 2030 compared to 2025 levels. The company will also promote 'QR code-based electricity access' services, enabling seasonal, temporary, and mobile users (e.g., tea roasting, tobacco drying, irrigation, street markets, express logistics) to get 'no application required for connection' and rapid access. Additionally, State Grid will ensure 100% of fixed parking spaces in new residential communities are equipped with or have conditions reserved for private charging facilities, and will promote a 'one certificate per community' approach for existing communities to facilitate private charging pile installation. 'Green channels' will support unified construction and operation of public charging facilities in communities to meet green mobility demand.
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State Grid to Promote Cross-Provincial Power Services in Key Chinese Regions
State Grid Corporation of China announced a set of measures on September 16 to modernize its electricity business environment and support high-quality economic and social development. The measures include promoting joint processing for public services such as water, electricity, gas, and telecommunications, and enabling one-stop handling of related tasks like property transfer with electricity account transfer, account cancellation with refunds, and customer name changes with VAT information updates. The company will advance cross-provincial processing of power supply services in key regions including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, and Sichuan-Chongqing, while piloting cross-grid collaborative services in areas like Fujian-Guangdong and Heilongjiang-Hainan. Additionally, State Grid aims to align its power supply service grids with local government grassroots social governance grids, publicly disclose grid manager information and service hotlines, provide one-stop services for policy consultation and business processing, and implement a closed-loop process for demand collection, task dispatching, and result feedback to ensure rapid resolution of public electricity-related requests.
Read sourceState Grid Aims to Cut Rural Power Outage Duration by Over 30% by 2030
On September 16, State Grid Corporation of China released a set of measures to create a modernized electricity business environment for high-quality economic and social development. The document outlines plans for the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026–2030) to complete upgrades of backbone grid infrastructure in areas with weak county-level grid connectivity. This is projected to reduce the average annual power outage duration per household in rural grids by more than 30% in 2030 compared to 2025. The company will also promote a 'scan-to-use' electricity service, allowing seasonal, temporary, and mobile electricity users—such as tea roasting, tobacco drying, irrigation, street markets, night markets, and express logistics—to access electricity without formal applications and with rapid connection. Additionally, State Grid will ensure that 100% of fixed parking spaces in new residential communities are equipped with or have conditions reserved for private charging facilities. For existing communities, a 'one certificate per community' policy will be promoted to facilitate the installation of private charging piles, and 'green channels' will be established for public charging infrastructure to support green mobility.
Read sourceState Grid Unveils Measures for Fair Grid Access for Renewables, Storage, and New Entities
On September 16, State Grid Corporation of China released a set of measures aimed at creating a modernized electricity business environment to empower high-quality economic and social development. The document emphasizes providing fair and efficient grid connection services for new entities and business models, including renewable energy, new energy storage, and source-grid-load-storage integration. It commits to standardizing and publicly disclosing available capacity information in distribution networks to ensure timely grid connection for distributed power sources, targeting an average annual addition of over 60 million kilowatts during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030). Additionally, the measures focus on improving electricity metering and billing settlement services to actively support the participation of these new entities in the electricity market.
Read sourceState Grid Unveils Measures to Boost Grid Access for Renewables and Storage
On September 16, State Grid Corporation of China released a set of measures aimed at creating a modernized electricity business environment and supporting high-quality economic and social development. The measures focus on providing fair and efficient grid connection services for new entities and business models, including renewable energy, new energy storage, and source-grid-load-storage integration. State Grid will deepen its 'Power Supply + Energy Efficiency' services, fully promote the 'Enterprise Electricity Assistant,' and ensure that 100% of registered high-voltage customers on the 'Online State Grid' platform receive energy efficiency bills. The company will also offer free energy-saving diagnostics and consulting services on green electricity and green certificates. Additionally, State Grid will actively support the construction of zero-carbon industrial parks and assist export-oriented enterprises in achieving low-carbon development through direct connections to green electricity and the substitution of renewable energy sources. These initiatives are designed to help enterprises improve energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions, and enhance operational effectiveness.
Read sourceState Grid Issues Measures to Modernize Grid Services for Renewables and Storage
On September 16, State Grid Corporation of China released a set of measures aimed at creating a modernized electricity business environment to empower high-quality economic and social development. The document emphasizes proactive services for enterprises in energy conservation, carbon reduction, and efficiency improvement. It calls for deepening 'power supply + energy efficiency' services, fully promoting the 'Enterprise Electricity Assistant,' and pushing energy efficiency bills to 100% of high-voltage customers registered on the 'Online State Grid' platform. Additionally, it provides free energy-saving diagnostic and green electricity/green certificate consulting services. The measures also highlight active support for the construction of zero-carbon industrial parks and encourage low-carbon development among export-oriented enterprises through direct green electricity connections and renewable energy substitution. The initiative focuses on providing fair and efficient grid connection services for new entities and business models, including renewable energy, new energy storage, and source-grid-load-storage systems.
Read sourceState Grid Announces Measures to Boost Grid Access for Renewables and New Energy Storage
On September 16, State Grid Corporation of China released a set of measures aimed at building a modern electricity business environment to empower high-quality economic and social development. The document emphasizes actively serving new market entities by providing fair and efficient grid connection services for renewable energy, new energy storage systems, and integrated source-grid-load-storage projects. It calls for standardizing and publicly disclosing information on available distribution network capacity to ensure timely grid connection of distributed power sources, targeting an average annual addition of over 60 million kilowatts during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Additionally, the measures focus on improving electricity metering and billing settlement services to actively support new entities in participating in the electricity market. This initiative is part of China's broader efforts to integrate more renewable energy and modernize its power grid infrastructure.
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