On March 4th, in order to encourage all kinds of investors to make full use of desert areas to promote the construction of wind generation, photovoltaic generation and other new energy projects and achieve convenient, efficient service and effective management, Xinjiang Development and Reform Commission, formulated this guideline, defined 7 promotion roadmaps for the construction of new energy projects. Among these roadmaps, the energy storage promotion roadmap requires that enterprises deployed a duration of more than 4 hours energy storage are allowed to build wind and photovoltaic generation projects with a capacity of 4 times of energy storage, encourage photovoltaic generation and solar thermal generation to construct on a scale of 9:1, encourage wind farms that have been connected to the grid for more than 15 years to carry out renovating, upgrading and decommissioning plans which the new construction scale should be four times of scale of energy storage with more than 4 hours duration, and promote the improvement of quality, efficiency of the wind power industry .
Xinjiang Development and Reform Commission issued the "Guidelines for the Construction of Large-scale Wind Power and Photovoltaic Bases in the Autonomous Region (Version 1.0)"