New productivity from the perspective of energy

--State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power anchors innovation to promote high-quality development

In September last year, during an inspection in Heilongjiang, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed "new quality productivity" for the first time. Since then, he has talked about "new productivity" on many occasions. The 2024 "Government Work Report" also mentioned the need to accelerate the development of new productive forces.

Looking back at the evolution of human beings and the evolution of production methods, from the ancient hunting era to the farming era, and from mechanization, electrification and informatization, the energy transformation behind them has played an extremely important role and played an important role.

Judging from the actual situation in recent years, new quality productivity has been formed in practice and demonstrated a strong driving force and support for high-quality development.

Bringing a qualitative leap in productivity

New productivity, as the name suggests, is different from traditional productivity and is a qualitative transition in productivity. Traditional production factors often involve resource consumption and manpower consumption, and are ultimately limited. New productivity points to more infinite spaces, such as big data, renewable energy, etc.

As economic development shifts to the pursuit of higher quality and gets rid of the shackles of traditional factors, new quality productivity has become a historical choice.

Zhejiang, a major economic province, has also faced difficulties caused by extensive development. In the end, under a series of new problem-solving ideas such as the reforms of "replacing cages and replacing birds" and "heroes per acre", it promoted the strategic adjustment of the economic structure and economic growth. Fundamental changes in the way to achieve "phoenix nirvana".

"Machine substitution","Factory Internet of Things","Enterprises on the Cloud" and even the construction of "Future Factory" are all witnesses to the transformation of traditional production methods.

In line with this, the energy transformation is also accelerating.

Since 2013, over the past 10 years, ultra-high voltage projects such as Binjin, Huaishang, Zhefu, Lingshao, and Baizhe have been put into operation. A steady stream of clean energy has crossed mountains and mountains from northwest and southwest China, passing through thousands of miles of silver lines., flash to Zhejiang, injecting new color into the economic and social development of this eastern coastal province.

Ten years after the introduction of UHV into Zhejiang has brought new opportunities for energy supply and transformation. The new power system brings a qualitative leap to the energy revolution.

In the in-depth advancement of the construction of new power systems, with the large-scale access of new energy sources, the operating mechanism of the power grid has undergone subversive changes. The traditional one-way plan of "source-with-load" has transformed into multi-dimensional synergy of "source-network-load storage". Interaction.

The scenery exceeded the doubling task. As of the end of 2023, Zhejiang's wind and light installed capacity was 39.4 million kilowatts, accounting for the first time exceeding 30% of the province's total power generation installed capacity. It is predicted that by 2025 and 2030, the total installed capacity of Zhejiang scenery will exceed 57 million kilowatts and 87 million kilowatts.

Employees of State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power inspect photovoltaic power generation equipment at a photovoltaic base located on a high mountain. Photo by Ji Weina

With the rapid development of pumping and energy storage, traditional energy services and consumption models have been broken, the boundaries between supply and consumption have become increasingly blurred, users can participate in energy supply, and there are more direct and efficient transactions between power plants and power users.

Energy digitalization has flown into ordinary life. Massive distributed power supplies form "virtual power plants" through digital means, and corporate energy consumption can be more accurately managed through digital means. New power systems penetrate into the improvement of the industrial chain with broader value.

History continues to move forward, and there is a period of decline and prosperity. Traditional industries will be transformed and upgraded, emerging industries will be cultivated and expanded, and future industries will be planned and laid out characterized by "high-end, intelligent and green". According to the 2024 "Government Work Report", exports of the "three new products" of electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products will increase by nearly 30% in 2023.

With new productivity, new industries, new business formats, and new models will merge into new momentum and new trends, which will hit thousands of miles.

It is green and innovative

Fundamentally, new productivity itself is green productivity. Nowadays, talking about "green" is often not just about ecology itself, but also about development. "Green" is the background of high-quality development.

As the birthplace of the concept of "two mountains", Zhejiang has always spared no effort in making a fuss about "green".

In addition to the aforementioned vigorous development of green energy, various "green" practices are also emerging. The management applications of carbon such as "Carbon Inclusive","Carbon Account" and "Carbon Efficiency Code" are becoming more and more mature, the traction of "green finance" is gradually becoming apparent, the transactions of "green electricity","green certificates" and "green technology" are in full swing, and "ecosystem production" The gross value (GEP) accounting standard system has smoothed the transformation of the "two mountains", and green industrial clusters have gradually formed...

Outside the Yucun zero-carbon library, the photovoltaic "tree of life" is full of greenery. Photo by Dong Zhenmao

Zhejiang Jiansheng Group Jiangshan Knitting Co., Ltd. has reduced the overall energy consumption level by 23% by building rooftop photovoltaics and optimizing energy management. At present, the carbon emission intensity evaluation results on the company's "carbon account" have remained at the "green" level. In the past three years, it has applied for nearly 200 million yuan in low-interest loans from local banks with the help of the "green label" to improve the company's productivity.

In 2023, the transaction electricity of Zhejiang Green Power Trading exceeded 8 billion kilowatt-hours, reaching 8.213 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 218.85%. The National Green Technology Trading Center facilitated green technology transactions exceeding 1.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 68%.

In the "Notice on Issuing the National Economic and Social Development Plan of Zhejiang Province in 2024" issued by Zhejiang this year, it also mentioned the need to focus on improving the level of green development, including doing a good job in ensuring energy supply and stabilizing prices. The installed capacity of newly started power supply projects is 26 million kilowatts, of which the proportion of green electricity installed capacity reaches 85%, strengthening the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, and promoting the green transformation of development methods.

It is necessary to have a clearer glimpse of new productivity, one side is green, and the other side is technological innovation.

Take State Grid Zhejiang Province Electric Power Co., Ltd. as an example. The company is committed to deepening new fields such as new energy, integrated energy services, electric vehicle services, and energy big data. At the same time, it promotes low-frequency transmission, hydrogen-electricity coupling, and short-circuit current flexibility suppression. Research and development of major original technologies, building a new power system is no longer a traditional "energy supplier", but serves as an energy exchange platform hub to promote the dual transformation of green + technology.

This is especially true for Zhejiang as a whole. It not only asks for productivity from green, but also asks for productivity from technological innovation. It can be said that it is moving towards new, intelligent, and future industries. In terms of accelerating the development of the artificial intelligence industry, Zhejiang's goal is very clear-by 2027, major breakthroughs will be made in the core technology of artificial intelligence. The number of artificial intelligence companies will exceed 3000, and the total operating income will exceed 1 trillion yuan.

From energy to all walks of life, new productivity is bound to start a new journey in Zhejiang.

New production relationships are needed to promote catalysis

Scientific and technological innovation is the core element in developing new productive forces. To develop new quality productive forces, we must further deepen reform in an all-round way and form a new type of production relationship that is compatible with it.

The development of new productive forces is inseparable from the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productive forces.

Zhejiang Electric Power, which is the first among energy central enterprises to embark on the road of entrepreneurship and innovation, introduced a management method for the transformation and application of employee technological innovation achievements in early 2017 to promote the "incubation and transformation" of scientific and technological achievements.

In 2023 alone, State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power achieved 27 results such as sea breeze harmonic control equipment, liquid-cooling energy storage devices, and live insulating spraying materials. 103 new results were converted throughout the year, and the result conversion amount increased by 328% year-on-year. Promote the application of scientific and technological innovation results to specific industries and industrial chains.

To develop new productive forces, we also need to innovate the allocation of production factors. A sound distribution mechanism can stimulate the vitality of production factors such as labor, knowledge, technology, and management, and better reflect the market value of knowledge, technology, and talents.

The State Grid Zhejiang Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (emerging technology company), which specializes in the field of science and technology innovation, has successfully cashed in income dividend incentives for 4 science and technology innovation projects in 2023, and has reserved 7 incentive projects in 2024. The total incentive amount is expected to exceed one million yuan, truly realizing "Knowledge is productivity" and enhances the initiative of scientific and technological talents.

For Zhejiang Electric Power, developing new quality productivity is self-driving, and serving new quality productivity is the mission to maximize value.

Since the beginning of 2024, Zhejiang has sent a strong signal on cultivating and developing new productive forces.

The signals are hidden in the goals set by the "First New Year Meeting" in various cities and cities, as well as in big data. During the recent Spring Festival holiday, according to statistics from State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power, among industrial enterprises that do not stop production, green, high-tech and other related industries lead the growth rate of electricity consumption. Aerospace vehicle and equipment manufacturing, photovoltaic equipment and components manufacturing, and new The average daily electricity consumption growth rate of the energy vehicle manufacturing industry was 76.71%, 67.12%, and 49.42%, respectively, ranking among the top three.

Zhejiang Electric Power continues to optimize the power business environment and help enterprises "expand space" for development. State Grid Hangzhou Power Supply Company has promoted the government to introduce an energy subsidy policy for enterprises that will not stop production during the Spring Festival holiday, showing sincerity of "real money". The province is also continuing to reduce the cost of power connection. Just promoting the implementation of the power access project cost sharing mechanism jointly borne by the government and power supply companies has benefited enterprises a total of 4.01 billion yuan.

In 2023, Zhejiang's total economic output will exceed 8 trillion yuan, and the GDP of 26 counties in mountainous areas will exceed 10 billion yuan. In the future, Zhejiang's largest power demand will continue to grow rapidly at a level of around 5%. Under the transformation and reorganization of production factors, the formation of new productive forces is accelerating.

Through self-"evolution ", energy reshapes the face of traditional power systems and takes the lead in developing new productive forces and promoting high-quality development.

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author: Chen Lisha

edit:Kong Kexing

proofreading:Han Yuxi