The Energy Bureau plans to connect 4.8 million charging piles by 2020

On August 31, the National Energy Administration issued the Action Plan for Distribution Network Construction and Transformation (2015-2020), proposing that from 2015 to 2020, the investment in distribution network construction and transformation should not be less than 2 trillion yuan, of which the investment in 2015 will not be less than 300 billion yuan, and the cumulative investment during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period will not be less than 1.
7 trillion yuan
.
By 2020, it plans to meet the needs of 12,000 charging and swapping stations, 4.
8 million charging piles, and provide charging and swapping services
for 5 million electric vehicles.

In recent years, with the development of new energy vehicles, the construction of charging piles has gradually increased, but due to the insufficient voltage in some areas, especially in some old communities, it is difficult to build charging piles, which has become a major charging problem
for new energy vehicle enterprises and users.

Lin Boqiang, director of the China Energy Economy Research Center at Xiamen University, believes that the power distribution plan shows the government's determination
.
According to the plan, the Energy Bureau will do a good job in connecting the planning of the distribution network and the planning of charging and swapping facilities within five years, strengthen the construction and transformation of the supporting power grid of charging and swapping facilities, and ensure barrier-free access
to charging and swapping facilities.

In addition, it will accelerate the construction of an intelligent charging and swapping service network for electric vehicles, promote operational technologies such as orderly charging, charging, discharging and storage integration of electric vehicles, and realize the interconnection of urban and intercity charging facilities
.

In addition to vigorously promoting new energy vehicles and popularizing charging piles, the action plan will also leverage the financial funds of governments at all levels, drive enterprises and social capital investment, and form a long-term mechanism
to support the development of distribution networks.
Through the existing central budget investment projects such as rural power grid renovation and upgrading, we will study the establishment of special investment projects within the central budget for the construction and transformation of urban distribution networks, and support the upgrading of distribution network infrastructure in combination with new urbanization and the "three major strategies"
.
Lin Boqiang believes that special operating subsidies for projects such as energy conservation and consumption reduction, new technology application, intelligent demonstration, and the use of clean electricity central heating and other livelihood projects can effectively support distribution network projects invested by social capital and attract social capital to join
.