Practicing "Inner Skills" to Innovate and Develop Wind Power Bottleneck

“The entire upstream profit space is depleted. In the next 20 years, I will give you what you have—my God.” Jiang Zhaomin, deputy general manager of AVIC Huiteng Wind Power Equipment Co., Ltd., opened on February 27, 2012 “Tianjin Wind Power The words that the industry innovation forum wanted to say to the owners caused a spontaneous applause from the audience.

In 2011, the global economic growth was weak, the impact of the international financial crisis was intensified, the domestic economic growth slowed down, and electricity demand fell; the National Energy Administration's approval of the approval of local governments for wind farm construction led to a slowdown in the construction of new wind power projects. , The construction funds are tight, the wind power is difficult to access, the production capacity of the company is excessive, and the price competition is fierce. The complex internal and external environment has enabled China's wind power industry, which has been developing rapidly for many years, to quickly enter the “deep winter period”, and wind power manufacturing companies will bear the brunt of this.

How can the domestic wind power industry break through the "frozen" period? Focusing on the industry challenges encountered at present, relying on technological innovation, building real core competitiveness as soon as possible or the only way for Chinese wind power companies.

Institutional and institutional innovations promote Ren Dongming, director of the Renewable Energy Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that the implementation of the renewable energy quota system can serve as a solution to the coordinated development of the wind power industry as an institutional mechanism for innovation.

When talking about the design ideas of the quota system, he said that the determination of quota indicators should be coordinated with the country’s macro objectives of rationally controlling total energy consumption and adjusting energy consumption structure to ensure a balanced scale of power generation industries such as wind power, solar energy, and biomass energy. Development will be treated differently according to the principle of “consider responsibility, capacity for accommodating, potential for development, and layout of the power grid”. At the same time, the provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) that have the potential for the formation of interconnected power grids and non-hydro renewable energy resources shall be equally responsible. Quota indicator.

Ren Dongming explained that the subject of the quota obligation should be the power grid company as the main responsibility for the implementation of renewable energy quotas, and the large-scale power generation investment enterprises as the subject of quotas for renewable energy power production, and will be at the provincial (district, city) level As the subject of administrative responsibility for renewable energy power quota consumption obligations.

In terms of quota assessment and supervision, Ren Dongming said that the consumption of renewable energy should be included in the assessment of the total energy consumption and energy conservation emission reduction targets of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). In addition, the State Council’s energy authority needs to share the same. The supervision, statistics, and auditing departments, as well as the SASAC, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission, and other agencies, conducted assessments on the completion of quota indicators for provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), power grid companies, and major power investment companies.

Ren Dongming stated that through the establishment of quota targets for total electricity consumption in all provinces and regions, total electricity purchases by grid companies, and renewable energy power generation enterprises, the implementation of national renewable energy planning and development goals will be achieved, and all regions will be encouraged to actively develop and utilize local renewable energy sources. Resources, to achieve the scale of renewable energy development and security to absorb the purpose.

"Because it is necessary to coordinate various interests, the "Regulations on the Management of Renewable Energy Quotas," led by the National Energy Administration, was originally intended to be introduced at the end of 2011. Now it seems that it will be very good for the first half of 2012." Ren Dongming said.

In order to better understand the opinions of wind power people on the quota management measures and provide reference for government decision-making, Tianjin Wind Energy Association launched a public opinion survey on the implementation of the “Renewable Energy Quota Management Measures” implementation guidelines for power grid companies, power generation companies, and equipment. A total of 56 senior management personnel, R&D personnel, marketing personnel, and market dispatchers from 17 companies, including manufacturers and R&D institutions, conducted surveys and analysis.

According to Wang Changgui, Secretary-General of the Tianjin Wind Energy Association, the survey shows that the number of people supporting the use of electricity price subsidies still accounts for 50% of the total number of people, and the number of people who support the quota system accounts for 45%, which is slightly lower than the number of people supporting electricity price subsidies, and another 5 % of the respondents supported the simultaneous implementation of tariff subsidies and quota systems. The number of people who support quotas above 5% accounted for 57.14% of the total, and the number of those who supported quotas between 3% and 5% accounted for 39.29%. In contrast, the number of support quotas was between 2% and 3%. Only 3.57% of people are between.

According to the survey, a considerable proportion of respondents still hope to adopt the electricity price subsidy policy. Wang Changgui said that although most respondents have a certain understanding of the quota system, there are also individual company executives who have a relatively vague concept of quotas. It can be seen from this that the current influence of the quota system in the wind power industry is not yet high and needs further publicity. “The current status of wind power grid connection is still not optimistic. 'The difficulty in grid connection' has indeed become the major bottleneck restricting the development of wind power,” said Wang Changgui.

Moving from a manufacturing service to a “how to create from China to China, from a wind power country to a wind power country, and from a focus on wind power capacity to focus on wind power quality is a problem that China’s wind power needs to solve in the next 10 years. The key to solving these problems lies in innovation. "World Wind Energy Association **, chairman of the Wind Energy Professional Committee of the Chinese Renewable Energy Association, said He Dexin.

He introduced that in 2011 China's newly installed capacity of wind power reached 18 million kW, which has reached a total of 60 GW, and has become a veritable manufacturing power for wind power equipment in the world. However, there is still a gap between the technology level and developed countries in Europe and the United States, and at the same time, the market is mainly facing the domestic market. The low ratio of wind power installed capacity and grid connection is currently an urgent problem to be solved.

Zhang Yuan, deputy general manager of Longyuan Power Group Co., Ltd., said that the future development of wind power will have three characteristics: the momentum of rapid development will continue to be maintained in the future; the era of merger and integration is approaching; offshore wind power will enter a substantive stage of development.

According to Zhang Yuan, in order to realize the national long-term development plan for wind power, it is necessary to shift from speed-oriented to quality-oriented, centralized large-scale development to large-scale decentralized development, and from the increase in installed capacity to the increase in the proportion of grid connection. .

“China has the largest installed capacity of wind power in the world, but it is actually very inexperienced in wind farm operation and maintenance management. The service industry is still in its infancy. Domestic wind power companies, whether manufacturers or investors, face service bottlenecks. Wind power companies need Establish a user-centric manufacturing service company, said Ma Ronghua, deputy general manager of Dongfeng Wind Power Division.

Ma Ronghua believes that due to the rapid growth of domestic wind power industry, the construction of service systems and the establishment of service personnel are seriously lagging. Investors rely more on the services of the host equipment manufacturers, based on their own capabilities, based on quality concerns, but also based on benefits. Owners tried every means to extend the warranty period of the equipment.

Ma Ronghua said that the responsibility and pressure for service of wind power equipment manufacturers are getting bigger and bigger. One is to pay for the extended warranty service and the service period is longer and longer, from the early two to three years to the present five years. Even longer, the tendering conditions become more and more stringent; second, the product prices are getting lower and lower, and it has been depreciated from the true value of the product. The market is over-consumption of market resources from the previous period, paying for the immature technical quality, and excessive and advanced consumption services. change. This immature market performance will affect the overall improvement of services, and it is not conducive to the cultivation of a group of outstanding wind power companies with strong, responsible and sustainable development.

“Wind power companies are undergoing a major examination, and the wind power industry has also started a technological ** and market changes. Enterprises from the continuous expansion of manufacturing scale, staking the base to lay a solid foundation, internal skills, and focus on users to change.” Ma Ronghua said.