Recently, the Energy Bureau of Shandong Province issued the Implementation Plan for Scenario Development in the New Energy Sector of Shandong Province, systematically deploying measures around new energy technology innovation, scenario cultivation, and industry development. The plan proposes to use scenario development as a lever to accelerate the transformation of new energy technology achievements and their industrialisation application, further cultivate new quality productive forces in the new energy sector, and support the province’s green, low-carbon, and high-quality development.
The Implementation Plan clarifies the commitment to driving technology R&D, achievement transformation, and industry clustering through new energy scenario development, combining resource endowments and industrial foundations to create demonstrative, replicable, and scalable application scenarios. According to the plan, by 2027, the province will have cultivated more than 30 projects in the provincial scenario bank, established 2 to 3 provincial scenario innovation laboratories, and launched a batch of replicable and scalable demonstration scenarios. By 2030, a nationally leading new energy scenario innovation ecosystem will be basically established.
Centering on key tasks, the plan follows a "4+2" overall layout to systematically advance 22 new energy scenario development tasks, covering multiple fields such as new energy production, transmission and distribution, consumption, industrial application, and urban governance. Among them, priority will be given to the comprehensive utilisation of onshore wind power, marine energy, nuclear energy, geothermal energy, and other resources to create high-efficiency clean energy development scenarios. At the same time, it will promote new-type power system applications such as direct green electricity connection, virtual power plants, and smart microgrids to enhance new energy consumption capacity.
In the hydrogen energy sector, the plan proposes accelerating the deployment of integrated green hydrogen production, storage, and transportation, new energy coupled carbon capture and utilisation, hydrogen supply assurance and other application scenarios, promoting diversified new energy utilisation and synergistic industry development, and providing support for the green hydrogen industry chain construction and demonstration application.
Additionally, Shandong will promote the deep integration of new energy with industries such as industrial transformation, green transportation, modern agriculture, and computing power to create scenarios for new energy empowering industrial development. It will simultaneously advance comprehensive demonstration projects such as new-type power system demonstration zones, new energy-rich areas, and new energy ports to form a new energy application system covering multiple fields and levels.
To accelerate project implementation, the Implementation Plan proposes establishing a new energy scenario project reserve and dynamic management mechanism. Projects meeting the criteria will be given priority for inclusion in provincial key projects, and full life cycle service support for projects will be strengthened to promote the coordinated advancement of technology breakthroughs, achievement transformation, and project construction. Meanwhile, a scenario innovation evaluation mechanism will be established to dynamically adjust projects with slow construction progress or poor implementation effects, continuously improving the quality of scenario development.
It is understood that during the plan drafting process, Shandong Province simultaneously organised the collection of landmark application scenario projects in the new energy sector. After evaluation based on policy compliance, pre-existing foundations, and demonstration and driving effects, the first batch of 67 provincial landmark application scenario projects in the new energy sector has been selected and released together with the Implementation Plan.
