On March 9, the kick-off meeting of the major special project “Structural Form and Evolution Path of New Type Power System for Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality” (2022YFB2403300) of the national key R&D program “Energy Storage and Smart Grid”, led by Associate Professor Zhang Ning of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics, Tsinghua University, was successfully held in Beijing. The project will be mainly completed by Tsinghua University and Shenzhen Institute of the University of Hong Kong under the leadership of State Grid Shanghai Electric Power Company.

The meeting was presided over by Professor Bi Tianshu, vice president of North China Electric Power University. Xie Wei, chief engineer of State Grid Shanghai Electric Power Company, delivered a welcome speech. More than 30 people, including Liu Jia, deputy director of the Industrial Development Promotion Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Zhang Zhaohua, commissioner of the Third Section for Special Projects of MIIT, Liu Jianming, director of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, Professor Kang Chongqing of Tsinghua University, Li Zhenyu, deputy director of the Science and Technology Department of the State Grid Corporation, Hua Bin, director of the Science and Technology Department of the State Grid Shanghai Electric Power Company, and experts from Tsinghua University, Shenzhen Research Institute of the University of Hong Kong and other project undertaking units attended the meeting.

Group photo of project team and experts

At the meeting, Zhang Ning, the project leader, made a detailed report on the project implementation plan, including the main research content of the project, overall technical route for implementation, division of labor and interfaces, project schedule, milestone plan and project organization and management mechanism. Experts participating in the meeting fully affirmed the great significance of this project established to support national policy formulation and new type power system construction, and put forward opinions on project organization and implementation, research focuses and research content.

Experts responsible for the project, leaders from MIIT and project leaders delivered speeches

Liu Jianming from China Society for Electrical Engineering, He Jinghan from Beijing Jiaotong University, Xiao Jinyu from Global Energy Internet Development Cooperation Organization, He Jian from China Electric Power Research Institute Co., Ltd., Wang Yating from General Electric Power Planning and Design Institute, Zhang Ning from State Grid Energy Research Institute Co., Ltd., and Kang Chongqing and Chen Ying from Tsinghua University respectively put forward constructive opinions on the development of the project in terms of research content, research focuses, and research output.

Professor Bi Tianshu from North China Electric Power University pointed out that for this young scientist project, the project team needs to further focus on research issues and put forward their own views on the future power system structure and evolution path. Meanwhile, the team needs to deal well with project organization, focus on core issues, and stimulate the creativity of the young team. Liu Jia, deputy director of the Industrial Development Promotion Center of MIIT, made a summary of the kick-off meeting, and placed high hopes on the young scientist project, hoping that the project could bring products “with highlights and without flaws”.

At the end of the meeting, Zhang Ning, the project leader, expressed his opinion and said that through the kick-off meeting, he felt the care from MIIT and all experts for the young scientist project, and he will do well in project research and organization and bring breakthrough results.

This kick-off meeting is held together for the young scientist project “Resilience Improvement Technology for Large-scale Urban Power Grids in Response to Extreme Events (2022YFB2405500)” led by Shanghai Electric Power Company and the project “Resilience Improvement Technology for Large-scale Urban Power Grids in Response to Extreme Events (2022YFB2405600)” led by Tsinghua University for the national key R&D program “Energy Storage and Smart Grid.

Project outline:

The project “Structural Form and Evolution Path of New Type Power System for Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality” was established in 2022 to satisfy the national strategic demand for “Energy storage and smart grid technologies”. Under the background of the “Dual-carbon” goal and the construction of a new type power system based on new energies, the proportion of new energy generation and terminal electrification rate will continue to increase, the source side of the power system will face the problem of increased uncertainty and complex grid-incorporation characteristics, the load side will face the pressure of large-scale grid-incorporated new loads and extensive supply and demand interaction, and the grid side will face the challenge of ensuring energy supply and system security and stability. In order to meet the requirements of high-proportion new energy absorption and safe and reliable access to new loads, the power system will present a new supply-demand balance mode and security and stability characteristics. It is urgently needed to study the new type power system structure form and evolution path that are safe and reliable, technically feasible and cost-effective. The project will focus on four parts: meteorological-driven new energy generation confidence capacity assessment and grid-incorporated characteristic reconstruction, supply-demand interaction mode and new load flexible adjustment capability under the joint drive of electric-carbon market, new type power system structure form with safe, stable, economic, low-carbon, multi-objective and multi-constraint features, and optimization method of new type power system evolution path towards carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.