China's State Grid To Cooperate With GE In Smart Grid Standards
January 11 2011 - 12:28AM
Dow Jones News
The State Grid Corp. of China, the country's near-monopoly power
distributor, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with
General Electric Co. (GE) and the Chinese Academy of Science to
jointly develop smart grid standards.
The three entities will cooperate in the standardization of
technologies in areas including electric-vehicle charging and
integration of large power-storage systems, the State-Owned Assets
Supervision and Administration Commission said on its website
Monday.
State Grid has said it wants to build a nationwide "strong smart
grid" by 2020 to increase electricity transmission capacity from
coal-rich inland provinces to the power-hungry coast, and to
improve the grid's ability to absorb more of the variable amounts
of power generated by wind, solar and other renewable energy
sources.
China currently has no national standards or technical
specifications for smart grid implementation.
Coal meets two-thirds of China's power needs, and the government
wants most new thermal power plants to be built at mine mouths to
ease bottlenecks in the country's transportation network and
pollution near major cities, so it will need to develop ways to
store that power and deliver it efficiently over long
distances.
The smart grid will be based on the current national grid,
including ultra-high voltage power transmission lines. State Grid
will invest CNY500 billion over the next five years to extend its
UHV transmission system, according to the state-controlled Xinhua
news agency.
-Jing Yang contributed to this article; Dow Jones Newswires;
(8621) 6120 1200; jing.yang@dowjones.com
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