In recent years, the medium and long-term trading scale of Shanxi Electric Power has gradually expanded, with the volume of traded electricity expanding from 1.36 billion kWh in 2013 to 168.5 billion kWh in 2022, an increase of approximately 124 times in ten years. The reporter obtained the above information from a press conference held by the Shanxi Provincial Government Information Office on the 24th.
Hou Bingrang, deputy director of the Shanxi Provincial Energy Bureau, said at the press conference that day that in recent years, Shanxi has regarded the power market reform as one of the important tasks of the pilot comprehensive reform of the energy revolution. Remarkable results have been achieved in terms of opening up and spot market construction.
Shanxi has researched and formulated a series of supporting policy documents for "1+1+N", including the "Shanxi Province Electricity Market Operation and Management Measures", "Shanxi Province's Work Plan for Further Promoting Electricity Market Construction" and a series of supporting implementation rules to build a "China A complete power market system that integrates and develops long-term + spot + ancillary services” and “provincial + external delivery”.
Since the trial operation began in 2019, the Shanxi power spot market has conducted seven settlement trial runs. The market rules have been updated to the 13th version on a rolling basis, and the cumulative number of trial operation days ranks first in China. At the same time, it pioneered medium- and long-term daily trading in 24 time periods, realizing the transformation from "electricity" trading to "electricity" trading, and fully embodying the price discovery function of the power market.
"Shanxi continues to explore the establishment of a market-based operation model of virtual power plants suitable for the characteristics of new energy, issued the "Virtual Power Plant Construction and Operation Management Implementation Plan", and established a market-based operation mechanism for virtual power plants under the background of spot goods." Hou Bingrang said that the current pilot The project has entered the market and participated in transactions, further tapping the user-side adjustment potential and improving power supply and new energy consumption capabilities.
At the same time, Shanxi has cultivated a group of electricity sales companies with strong personnel, high management levels, refined business capabilities, and advanced service awareness, of which the proportion of private capital holding companies reaches 95.51%. Effective competition in the electricity sales market has inspired innovations in a variety of business models focusing on electric energy services, attracting a group of domestic and foreign high-tech talents to take root in Shanxi and seek common development with local companies.
Hou Bingrang introduced that the local government should further improve the market mechanism for virtual power plants and independent energy storage to stimulate the flexibility and adjustment capabilities of various resources, promote new energy consumption and ensure power supply, and rely on information technology and big data platform technology , improve the online trading platform for the two-tier electricity wholesale and retail markets, and further reduce market transaction costs.