The National Development and Reform Commission reported on February 8 that the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration jointly issued the "Notice on Establishing and Improving the Market Mechanism for Electric Power Auxiliary Services", which will be implemented from March 1, 2024.
Power auxiliary service refers to the auxiliary regulation service provided to the system in order to maintain the safe and stable operation of the power system and ensure the power quality. The "Notice" proposes to continue to promote the construction of the power auxiliary service market, scientifically determine the market demand for auxiliary services, reasonably set up paid auxiliary service varieties, and standardize market rules such as the pricing of auxiliary services. Continuously improve the formation mechanism of auxiliary services, promote the standardized and orderly transmission and sharing of auxiliary service costs, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of flexible adjustment resources to participate in system adjustment.
The notice emphasizes that all localities should aim to ensure the safe and stable operation of the power system, and scientifically determine the demand for auxiliary services in accordance with the principle of standardization and transparency; Optimize and improve the market transaction and first-class mechanism of auxiliary services such as peak regulation, frequency modulation, and standby, and unify and clarify the pricing rules; Standardize the transmission of ancillary service costs, and clarify the scope of ancillary service costs borne by the user.
The "Notice" requires that all kinds of business entities be promoted to participate in the ancillary service market fairly, and strengthen the overall connection between the ancillary service market and the medium and long-term market and the spot market; Improve the management mechanism of auxiliary services and standardize work procedures; Strengthen the operation of the ancillary service market and the tracking and monitoring of the mechanism, and improve the mechanism to promote the reasonable formation of ancillary services.
The relevant person in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission said that in recent years, with the rapid growth of new energy power generation, China's power auxiliary service market has developed rapidly, and various localities have gradually explored the establishment of peak regulation, frequency regulation, backup and other auxiliary service market mechanisms, which have played a positive role in ensuring the safe and stable operation of the power system and promoting the consumption of new energy. However, at the same time, there are some places that need to be improved and standardized in the ancillary service market, mainly because the setting of ancillary service varieties is not reasonable and the pricing rules are not uniform.
1. In some areas, the auxiliary services are too high and the working mechanism is not standardized, so it is necessary to establish and improve the national mechanism in a unified manner, improve the comprehensive regulation capacity of the power system, better adapt to the needs of the new power system, and make greater efforts to promote clean energy consumption and green and low-carbon transformation.
The person in charge said that the country's establishment and improvement of the auxiliary service mechanism, both incentives and constraints, is another important measure to build a new power system. On the one hand, by promoting the fair participation of various business entities in the ancillary service market and clarifying the market transaction and development mechanism, it is conducive to encouraging business entities to provide auxiliary services required by the new power system, better ensuring the safe and stable operation of the power system, and promoting clean energy consumption and green and low-carbon transformation. On the other hand, the unified and clear principles of ancillary service transactions, pricing rules and some key parameter settings, and the transmission and sharing mechanism of ancillary service costs are conducive to standardizing ancillary service transactions and behaviors, and it is expected that the total scale of ancillary service costs nationwide will be reduced after the implementation of the policy, and the burden of ancillary service costs by business entities or users will also be more fair and reasonable.
In the next step, the relevant departments will closely track the development of the national electricity market, formulate the basic rules of the power auxiliary service market, adjust and improve the relevant mechanisms of auxiliary services in a timely manner, and promote the reasonable formation of auxiliary services. The person in charge said.
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