Some areas south of the Yangtze River encourage distributed energy and other methods of heating

The National Development and Reform Commission issued the management measures for cogeneration on the 18th, realizing that the central heating rate of cogeneration in large and medium-sized cities in northern China has reached more than 60%, and the cogeneration of counties with a population of more than 200,000 people has been fully covered
.
In areas with hot summers and cold winters (including parts south of the Yangtze River), various methods such as distributed energy resources are encouraged to meet heating and heating needs
according to local conditions.

According to reports, cogeneration refers to the production method of power plants that not only produce electric energy, but also use the steam generated to heat users, which can save energy and improve efficiency
compared with the way of producing electricity and heat energy separately.
The management measures stipulate that the primary task of cogeneration planning to meet heat demand is to simultaneously promote the replacement shutdown of coal-fired boilers and backward small thermal power units
.

According to the content of the management measures, cold and cold areas (including Qinling Mountains, north of the Huaihe River, Xinjiang and Qinghai) will give priority to planning and building combined heat and power projects based on heating, replacing decentralized coal-fired boilers and backward small thermal power units
.
In areas with hot summers and cold winters (including parts south of the Yangtze River), various methods such as distributed energy resources are encouraged to meet heating and heating needs
according to local conditions.
In addition to meeting the heat demand of industrial parks, cogeneration projects
are not considered for the time being.

At the same time, the planning and construction of cogeneration should be based on the premise
of central heating.
New industrial projects are prohibited from supporting the construction of self-owned coal-fired cogeneration projects
.
Encourage cogeneration units to expand the scope of heat supply under the premise of technical and economic reasonableness, and in principle, no other heat source points
will be planned and constructed within the heating range.
Encourage the use of waste heat, residual pressure, biomass energy, geothermal energy, solar energy, gas and other forms of clean energy and renewable energy heating according
to local conditions.
Encourage areas with difficulties in wind power and solar energy consumption to explore the use of electric heating, heat storage and other technologies to implement heat
supply.

The administrative measures stipulate that the provincial-level price authorities may independently formulate electricity price policies
to encourage the development of people's livelihood heating type back-pressure coal-fired cogeneration units, taking into account factors such as the province's total coal consumption control target, the total pollutant emission control target and environmental quality control target, the end-user affordability, and the people's livelihood heat demand.
Regions with conditions can pilot a two-part feed-in tariff
system.
The capacity electricity price is based on the average investment cost of various heating type back-pressure coal-fired cogeneration units, which is mainly used to compensate for the losses caused by the shutdown of non-heating period, and the electricity price implements the benchmark electricity price
in the region.

The ex-factory price of cogeneration units shall be uniformly approved by the competent government price department on the basis of considering its power generation income, in accordance with the principle of reasonable compensation cost and reasonable determination of income, according to the heating cost and reasonable profit rate or return on net assets, and encourage all localities to explore the establishment of a market-oriented coal-heat linkage mechanism
according to the actual local conditions.