China will become the country with the largest demand for energy storage in the future

A few days ago, the Zhongguancun Energy Storage Industry Technology Alliance (CNESA) released the latest research results showing that, regardless of the national policy environment or the growth trend of energy storage projects at home and abroad, in the eighth year of steady progress in energy storage, commercial operation has become clear. The energy storage market has released positive signals. The industry generally believes that 2018 may become the starting point for the commercial application of energy storage. From the '13th Five-Year' national strategic emerging industry development plan, the '13th Five-Year' plan for renewable energy development, the '13th Five-Year' plan for energy development, and the '13th Five-Year' plan for energy technology innovation, the country will all store energy As one of the key research and development areas. In October 2017, the 'Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of Energy Storage Technology and Industry' was officially released. As the first guiding policy for my country's energy storage industry, it clarified the goals and tasks for the development of China's energy storage industry in the next ten years. The development of renewable energy, mainly wind power and photovoltaic power generation, is one of the focuses of my country's energy development. Energy storage has the dual attributes of 'source' and 'loadIn different countries, the mainstream applications of energy storage are different. In domestic practice, the main profit model of the new energy storage is single, and it is learning from the experience of Western countries to explore a variety of commercial application models, and the progress is different. According to incomplete statistics from the Zhongguancun Energy Storage Industry Technology Alliance, as of the end of 2017, the cumulative installed capacity of China's operational energy storage projects was 28.9GW, a year-on-year increase of 19%. The cumulative installed capacity of electrochemical energy storage was 389.8MW, a year-on-year increase of 45%, accounting for 1.3% of the total installed capacity, an increase of 0.2% over the previous year. The electrochemical energy storage project planned in the first quarter of 2018 is close to 120MW. Under the background of gradually clear policy support, with the basic formation of industry stability expectations, photovoltaic companies, distributed energy companies, power equipment companies, power battery companies, electric vehicle companies, etc. have entered one after another, and began to intensify their layout and explore energy storage. Market, and further explore profitable business models. At present, the energy storage industry covers almost all provinces in the country. Energy storage can enhance the flexibility and adaptability of the power system. With the development of the energy Internet, large-scale centralized renewable energy, distributed power generation and micro-grid power generation, and frequency modulation auxiliary services all have huge demand for energy storage. At the same time, with the popularization of electric vehicles and the large-scale retirement of power batteries, the rise of the decommissioned battery energy storage market will accelerate. At present, the cost of new batteries is relatively high, which is an important reason for restricting the large-scale promotion and application of energy storage; and the cascade utilization can reduce the engineering cost of energy storage, is relatively environmentally friendly, and has good economic and social value. In addition, with the in-depth advancement of the new round of power system reforms, the power auxiliary service market and the power spot market have gradually come into play, the scope of power market-oriented transactions has expanded, the value of energy storage projects has been fully reflected, and its profitability will increase, which will further increase the society. The investment enthusiasm of capital forms a good cycle. Professor Hui Dong of the Chinese Academy of Electric Power Sciences boldly predicted in the report 'Predicting the Development Trend of Electric Energy Storage': China will become the country with the largest demand for energy storage in the future. On the one hand, the driving force for growth will come from balancing the demand for renewable energy power generation; on the other hand, it will come from the growth of electricity load.