Inner Mongolia Government Promotes Energy Storage for New Energy Projects

Inner Mongolia: Encouraging Self-construction and Purchase of Energy Storage or Peak-shifting Capacity for New Energy Projects

On January 29, the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region issued a notice on the promulgation of the policy list for promoting the high-quality development of industries through stable development and advancement by 2024. The document proposes to support the increase in the scale of new energy in integrated projects of generation, grid, load, and storage, support the substitution of renewable energy for self-owned coal-fired power plants in industrial parks, encourage the flexible transformation of coal-fired units, and encourage self-construction and purchase of energy storage or peak-shifting capacity for new energy projects. It also sets out detailed rules for the application of large-scale green electricity for new large-scale electricity-consuming loads, and projects with an annual electricity consumption of no less than 5 billion kilowatt-hours that significantly drive industrial economic growth, comply with national and regional policies on industry, energy consumption, and environmental protection, and are formulated on the principle of "negotiation by project" to develop high-proportion green electricity supply solutions.