NDRC and the National Energy Administration of China Issued the New Energy Storage Development Plan During "14th Five-Year Plan" Period

On March 21, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the National Energy Administration of China issued the New Energy Storage Development Plan During China’s "14th Five-Year Plan" Period. The plan specified development goals for new energy storage in China, by 2025, new energy storage technologies will step into a large-scale development period and meet the conditions for large-scale commercial applications. The performance of electrochemical energy storage technology will be further improved, and the system cost will be reduced by more than 30%. The new energy storage technology based on conventional power plants and compressed air energy storage technology (CAES) with a scale of hundreds of megawatts will realize engineering applications. Mechanical energy storage technologies such as megawatt-scale flywheel energy storage will gradually become mature, breakthroughs will be made in long-duration energy storage technologies such as hydrogen storage and thermal (cold) storage. By 2030, new energy storage technologies will develop in a market-oriented way.