Several opinions of the National Energy Administration on accelerating the development of digital and intelligent energy

Polaris Power Transmission and Distribution Network learned that on March 31, the National Energy Administration issued an announcement on accelerating the promotion of energyDigitalizationIntelligentSeveral opinions on development.

The comment points out thatBy 2030, the digital and intelligent innovative application system of all links of the energy system will be initially constructed and the potential of data elements will be fully activated. A number of common key technologies that restrict the development of energy digital and intelligent will have made breakthroughs.The intelligent perception and intelligent regulation system of energy systems are being formed at an accelerated pace, new models and new business forms of energy digitalization and intelligence continue to emerge, the operation and management model of energy system is accelerating the transformation to comprehensive standardization, deep digitalization and highly intelligentization, the network and information security guarantee capabilities of the energy industry are significantly enhanced, the efficiency, reliability and inclusiveness of the energy system are steadily improved, the diversification of energy production and supply is accelerating, and the quality and efficiency of quality and efficiency are accelerating. The supporting role of the integrated development of digital technology and energy industry in improving quality and efficiency, and the "dual control" of carbon emission intensity and total volume in the energy industry is fully demonstrated.

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Several opinions of the National Energy Administration on accelerating the development of digital and intelligent energy

Energy bureaus of all provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government), relevant provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government), the Development and Reform Commission of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and relevant central enterprises:

Promoting the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy and empowering the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of traditional industries is a strategic choice to seize the opportunities of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. Energy is the basic support for economic and social development. The integrated development of the energy industry and digital technology is an important engine to promote the upgrading of my country's energy industry foundation and the modernization of the industrial chain in the new era. It is an effective measure to implement the new energy security strategy of "four revolutions and one cooperation" and build a new energy system. It is of great significance to enhance the core competitiveness of the energy industry and promote high-quality energy development. In order to accelerate the development of digital and intelligent energy, the following opinions are put forward.

1. Overall requirements

(I) Guiding ideology. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, based on the new development stage, fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, deeply implement the innovation-driven development strategy, promote the deep integration of digital technology and the development of the energy industry, strengthen the construction of a new infrastructure that integrates traditional energy and digital intelligent technology, release the value potential of energy data elements, strengthen network and information security guarantees, effectively improve the level of digital and intelligent development of energy, promote the development of energy digital economy and green low-carbon circular economy, build a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system, and provide strong support for actively and steadily promoting carbon peak and carbon neutrality.

(II) Basic principles.

Demand to pull. In response to the digital and intelligent transformation and development needs of industries such as electricity, coal, oil and gas, through the integrated application of digital and intelligent technologies, we will make up for the shortcoming of transformation and development by industries, links and stages, and provide effective support for the high-quality development of energy.

Digital empowerment. Give full play to the potential of smart grids to expand the energy network, promote the formation of an intelligent energy regulation system, and improve the level of precise and efficient allocation of resources; promote the application of digital and intelligent technologies in the entire chain and all links of the coal and oil and gas production, supply, storage and sales system, and improve the overall energy efficiency, safe production and green and low-carbon levels of the industry.

Synergistic and efficient. Promote the full circulation and use of data resources as new production factors, break through information barriers between different entities, drive the interconnection and interaction of various links of the energy network, improve the coordinated operation efficiency of upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and between industries, and promote cross-industry collaboration of green and low-carbon energy development through digital and intelligent transformation.

Integrate innovation. Focus on original and leading innovation, accelerate the innovative application of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital twins, Internet of Things, and blockchain in the energy field, promote interdisciplinary and cross-field integration, promote the engineering and industrialization of innovative achievements, and cultivate new advantages in the integrated development of digital technology and the energy industry.

(III) Development goals. By 2030, the digital and intelligent innovative application system of all links of the energy system will be initially constructed, and the potential of data elements will be fully activated. A number of common key technologies that restrict the development of digital and intelligent energy will be made. The intelligent perception and intelligent regulation system of the energy system will be formed at an accelerated pace. New models and new business forms of digital and intelligent energy will continue to emerge. The operation and management model of the energy system will be transformed to comprehensive standardization, deep digitalization and high intelligence. The network and information security guarantee capabilities of the energy industry will be significantly enhanced. The efficiency, reliability and inclusiveness of the energy system will be steadily improved. The diversification of energy production and supply will be expanded at an accelerated pace, and the quality and efficiency of the integrated development of digital technology and the energy industry will be fully demonstrated.

2. Accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the industry

(IV) Accelerate the transformation of clean and low-carbon power generation with digital and intelligent technology. Develop new energy and hydropower power prediction technologies, and coordinate the analysis of variable factors such as meteorological factors, power supply status, power grid operation, user needs, and energy storage configuration. Strengthen the intelligent technology transformation of large-scale new energy bases, improve the regulation and support capacity of weak-delivery systems, improve the intelligence level of distributed new energy, promote reliable grid connection and orderly consumption of new energy power generation, and ensure the full development of new energy resources. Accelerate the digital design, construction and intelligent upgrade of traditional power supplies such as thermal power and hydropower, promote the development and application of intelligent decentralized control systems, help coal-fired units to achieve energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation, flexibility transformation, and heating transformation, and promote pumped storage and new energy storage to give full play to the role of flexible regulation. Promote the deep application of digital technology in various fields and links such as nuclear power design, manufacturing, construction, operation and maintenance, and create a smart nuclear power plant with comprehensive perception and smart operation, and comprehensively improve the level of guarantees such as nuclear security, network security and data security.

(5) Support the construction of new power systems with digital and intelligent power grids. Promote digital presentation, simulation and decision-making of physical power grids, explore the application of artificial intelligence and digital twins in the intelligent assisted decision-making and regulation of power grids, improve the intelligence level of multi-energy complementary joint scheduling of power systems, promote data-driven intelligent evaluation and early warning of transient stability of power grids, improve grid simulation analysis capabilities, and support the safe and stable operation of the power grid. Promote the construction of intelligent operation and inspection of substations and converter stations, intelligent inspection of transmission lines, and intelligent operation and maintenance systems for distribution, develop intelligent perception systems for power grid disasters, and improve power supply reliability and adaptability to harsh environments in remote areas. Accelerate the development of new energy microgrids and high-reliability digital distribution systems, and improve the intelligent and efficient configuration and operation optimization control level of distributed power supplies and new energy storage resources on the user side. Improve load prediction accuracy and the level of intelligent power load management, promote the hierarchical, hierarchical, classification and aggregation of load-side resources and collaborative optimization management, and accelerate the participation of load-side resources in system adjustment. Develop an electric carbon metering and accounting monitoring system, promote the interactive coupling of power market and carbon market data, and support the carbon footprint monitoring and analysis of the energy industry.[Activity recommendation: Registration for the 3rd Smart Distribution Network Construction Seminar begins]

(VI) Use digital and intelligent technology to drive safe and efficient coal production. Promote the construction of an intelligent geological guarantee system to improve the accuracy of mine geological conditions detection and the level of transparency of geological information. Improve the intelligent control level of complete sets of coal mining equipment, accelerate the implementation of intelligent coordinated operation of mining-branch-running, remote ground control and underground operation without people/small people, and accelerate the implementation of coordinated operation of excavation-branch-running-running-running-breaking multi-process, intelligent rapid excavation and remote control. Promote the intelligent unattended operation of the main coal flow transportation system of coal mines, and assist the transportation system to realize intelligent dispatching and comprehensive control of transportation vehicles. Promote coal mines to establish disaster monitoring, early warning and intelligent comprehensive prevention and control systems based on full-time and space information perception. Promote the construction and normal operation of unmanned driving systems for large open-pit coal mines, support open-pit coal mines to adopt semi-continuous and continuous mining process systems, and improve the level of intelligent mining and safe production of open-pit coal mines. Support coal mines to build an intelligent coal mine comprehensive management and control platform that integrates intelligent geological assurance, intelligent mining (stripping), intelligent washing and selection, and intelligent security control.

(7) Use digital and intelligent technology to help the green and low-carbon development and utilization of oil and gas. Accelerate the research and development of professional software for oil and gas exploration and development, promote the construction of digital basins, and promote the construction of oil and gas exploration and development databases, model libraries and sample libraries. Promote the construction of intelligent well logging and intelligent node seismic collection systems, promote intelligent drilling and completion, intelligent injection and procurement, intelligent fracturing system deployment and remote control operations, and expand the application of carbon dioxide oil flooding technology. Accelerate the application of intelligent production technology equipment such as intelligent drilling rigs, robots, drones, and intelligent perception systems in scenarios such as petroleum geophysical exploration, drilling, station inspection and maintenance, and engineering rescue, and promote intelligent linkage and automatic optimization of the entire process of wells, stations, factories, and equipment on the production site. Promote the coordinated development of oil and gas and new energy, improve the level of integrated intelligent regulation of source, network, load and storage, and strengthen the replacement of new energy for production energy. Promote the information transformation and digital upgrading of oil and gas pipelines, promote the construction of intelligent pipelines and intelligent gas storage warehouses, and improve the safe and efficient operation level of oil and gas pipeline facilities and the gas peak shaving capacity. Accelerate the upgrading and construction of digital and intelligent refineries and improve the level of refining and chemical energy efficiency.

(8) Use digital and intelligent energy consumption to accelerate energy saving and efficiency improvement in energy consumption. Continue to tap the response potential of demand side, focus on typical adjustable loads such as traditional high-energy-load industrial loads, industrial and commercial interruptible loads, electric vehicle charging networks, smart buildings, etc., explore price incentive methods such as peak and valley time-sharing electricity prices, high reliability electricity prices, and interruptible load electricity prices, promote intelligent management of flexible loads, optimized operations of virtual power plants, and precise matching of demand response resources in stratified and zoning, so as to improve the level of intelligent interaction between green energy consumption. Focusing on industrial parks and large public buildings, and with the goal of improving terminal energy utilization efficiency, we will promote the construction of multi-energy complementary integrated energy supply infrastructure and improve the level of comprehensive energy cascade utilization. Promote the popularization of intelligent energy-using services such as independent energy tuning and multi-energy collaborative scheduling, guide users to implement technical energy-saving and management energy-saving strategies, vigorously promote innovation in intelligent energy-using service models, and expand diversified value-added services such as energy custody, carbon emission measurement, and green electricity trading for end users. Relying on the construction of new energy infrastructure, we will promote energy conservation and efficiency improvement in energy consumption links and coordinated planning of smart cities and digital rural construction, and support the construction of a regional energy green, low-carbon, circular development system.

(9) Promote the construction of a digital energy ecosystem with new models and new business formats. Improve the intelligence level of coordinated control and diagnosis operation and maintenance of energy storage, energy supply and energy consumption systems, accelerate the construction of a new energy storage big data platform in the country, and improve the channels and mechanisms for collecting and reporting information in various provinces (regions). Improve the level of intelligent regulation and safety warning of hydrogen energy infrastructure, explore the potential of synergistic optimization of hydrogen energy across energy networks, and promote the development of hydrogen-electric integration. Promote the deep coupling of comprehensive energy services with new smart cities, smart parks, smart buildings and other energy consumption scenarios, and use digital technology to improve the green and low-carbon benefits of comprehensive energy services. Promote the integration of new energy vehicles into new power systems, improve the intelligence level of orderly charging and discharging, and encourage the development of new models and new business forms such as vehicle-network interaction, optical storage charging and discharging. Explore the joint construction and sharing of new energy infrastructure, and improve the comprehensive utilization efficiency of basic resources and reduce construction and operation costs while ensuring safety, compliance with regulations and clear responsibilities. Promote the construction of big data monitoring and early warning and comprehensive service platform system in the energy industry, create an open and interconnected industry science and technology information resource service sharing system, support the dynamic monitoring of industry development and analysis of demand layout, and serve digital governance.

3. Promote application pilot demonstration

(10) Promote pilot demonstration of diversified application scenarios. Focusing on key areas, key links and common needs, relying on energy projects to explore and expand digital and intelligent applications according to local conditions, we will focus on promoting the organization of demonstration projects to undertake systematic digital and intelligent pilot tasks in application scenarios such as smart power plants, new energy and energy storage grid connection, transmission line intelligent inspection and disaster monitoring, intelligent substations, self-healing distribution networks, intelligent microgrids, hydrogen-electric coupling, distributed energy intelligent regulation, virtual power plants, electric carbon data linkage monitoring, smart database dams, smart coal mines, intelligent oil and gas fields, intelligent pipelines, intelligent refineries, comprehensive energy services, industry big data centers and comprehensive service platforms, etc., and conduct in-depth exploration and trial first in terms of technological innovation, operation models, development formats.

(11) Strengthen the evaluation and management of pilot demonstration projects. Strengthen the implementation monitoring of pilot demonstration projects, establish a long-term mechanism for normalized project information reporting and monitoring, and improve the level of project management informatization. Establish a pilot demonstration effect evaluation mechanism, give full play to the capabilities and role of industry associations (schools) associations, think tank consulting agencies and other forces in technical support, testing, evaluation and demonstration of demonstration projects, promote regular evaluation of demonstration projects, analyze and evaluate the actual application effects of new technologies, new products, new solutions, and new models, summarize replicable and promote the practices and successful experiences, organize the selection of a batch of advanced, reliable, mature and applicable demonstration content, broad application prospects, and strong driving force, promote and apply to similar scenarios in the field, strengthen benchmark demonstration and leadership, and ensure practical results.

4. Promote common technological breakthroughs

(12) Promote breakthroughs in intelligent perception and intelligent terminal technology of energy equipment. Accelerate the research and development of intelligent sensing and measurement technologies for energy equipment, and improve the level of multi-sensing collaborative perception, real-time data acquisition and accurate metrological monitoring for massive terminals. Promote the integrated application of advanced positioning and timing technology in energy equipment perception terminals, and accelerate the research and development of related terminal products. Promote the research and development of special intelligent robots, drones and other technical equipment for complex environments and multiple application scenarios, improve the level of human-computer interaction capabilities and complete intelligent equipment, and serve typical business scenarios of digital and intelligent energy infrastructure such as remote equipment control, intelligent inspection, intelligent operation and maintenance, fault diagnosis, and emergency rescue. Promote the development of energy equipment status identification, reliability assessment and fault diagnosis technologies based on artificial intelligence.

(13) Promote breakthroughs in intelligent regulation and control technology of energy systems. Promote the development of digital twin models and intelligent control algorithms for energy equipment and systems, and improve the scale and accuracy of energy system simulation analysis. Accelerate the research on low-cost and high-performance information and communication technology for the application of information physics integrated energy systems, realize the integration of new communication technologies, perception technologies and energy equipment terminals, and improve the interactive capabilities of on-site perception, computing and data transmission. Promote the research on intelligent regulation and security simulation methods that are highly integrated with energy flow and information flow, strengthen the integration and sharing of multi-source data collection, protect data privacy, and big data analysis and processing, develop energy system regulation and auxiliary decision-making technology based on group intelligence, cloud-edge collaboration and hybrid enhancement, improve the level of dynamic monitoring, coordinated operation control and disaster warning of energy systems, explore unified coordinated scheduling of multiple energy sources, and support the system's wide-area mutual aid regulation, new energy supply and absorption, and safe and stable operation.

(14) Promote breakthroughs in network security technology in energy system. Strengthen research on energy equipment and system protection technology that integrates ontology security and network security, accelerate the application of endogenous security theory technology in the field of network security of energy systems, improve the level of intelligent protection technology of network security, strengthen network security warning and response and disposal of monitoring and scheduling systems, improve active immunity and active defense capabilities, and realize automated security risk identification, risk blocking and attack tracing. Promote the development of energy data security sharing and multi-party collaborative technology research and development, develop energy data trusted sharing and accurate traceability technologies, strengthen the rights confirmation and dynamic access control in data sharing, improve technical guarantee capabilities such as sensitive data leakage monitoring and data abnormal flow analysis, promote the construction of a trusted data circulation environment, and improve data circulation efficiency.

5. Improve the development support system

(15) Enhance the network security guarantee capabilities of energy system. Promote coal mines to build a dynamic defense system of "early warning, monitoring, and response" covering the entire life cycle of business, improve the active defense capabilities of oil and gas field industrial hosts, strengthen network security protection of power plant industrial control systems, promote the upgrade of network security dynamic protection, cloud security protection, and mobile security protection of traditional energy plant (station) information systems, and accelerate the realization of the safety, trustworthiness, and autonomous control of core equipment control systems. Further improve the security protection system of the power monitoring system, promote the construction of network security risk situation awareness, early warning and emergency response capabilities of the power system, and strengthen network security technical supervision in the power industry. Accelerate the promotion of independent, controllable, safe and reliable applications such as industrial control systems, chips, operating systems, general basic software and hardware in the energy field.

(16) Promote the classification, hierarchical management and sharing application of energy data. Promote the construction of data classification and grading protection system in the energy industry and strengthen data security governance. For data with high security sensitivity, improve the risk identification and protection level of data aggregation and integration, strengthen data desensitization, encryption protection and security compliance assessment; for data with low security sensitivity, improve rights confirmation, circulation, transaction and distribution mechanisms, orderly promote data sharing in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, promote online circulation and online tracking of the entire data sharing process, and support convenient data sharing applications. Strengthen data security supervision of industry big data centers, strengthen data security risk situation monitoring, and standardize data use. Fully combine the construction of the national integrated big data center system, promote the large-scale and intensive layout and coordinated linkage of computing power resources, and improve the efficiency of computing power use.

(17) Improve the energy digital and intelligent standard system. Based on the application needs of typical scenarios, we will strengthen the coordination and connection between the current relevant standards in various energy industries and the application of digital technology, promote various industries to accelerate the compilation of a number of digital and intelligent key technology standards and application standards, promote compatibility with the international standard system, and guide various industries to formulate digital and intelligent evaluation systems in a classified manner. Continue to improve the construction of standardized organizations in the field of energy digitalization and intelligence, and strengthen the closed-loop management of standard development, implementation and information feedback. Establish and improve the interactive support mechanism for energy digitalization and intelligence, improve the evaluation mechanism and service system for transforming digital and intelligent scientific and technological achievements into standards, and widely explore demonstration achievements with advanced technology and excellent market promotion value for technology standardization promotion and application.

(18) Accelerate the training of energy digital and intelligent talents. Deepen the integration of industry and education in the field of digital and intelligent energy, and support enterprises and colleges to jointly build industrial colleges, joint laboratories, internship bases, etc. around key development directions and key technologies. Relying on major energy projects and energy innovation platforms, we will accelerate the training of young and middle-aged backbone talents in digital and intelligent energy, and accelerate the cultivation of a group of cross-border compound talents with knowledge and skills in integrating energy technology and digital technology. It is encouraged to include energy digital and intelligent talents in the scope of support for various talent plans, and optimize talent evaluation and incentive policies. Promote exchanges and introduction, and vigorously attract high-level overseas talents in the field of energy digitalization and intelligence to return to China (come to China) to start businesses and engage in teaching and research activities.

6. Increase organizational guarantee

(19) Strengthen organizational implementation. The National Energy Administration takes the lead in establishing a special coordination and promotion mechanism for the development of digital and intelligent energy, and work with relevant departments to divide the work and cooperate to solve major problems, and guide local governments to improve relevant supporting policy mechanisms. All local energy authorities should establish and improve working mechanisms based on opinions and requirements, and accelerate the digital and intelligent development of energy in their regions in light of actual conditions. All relevant enterprises should give full play to the role of innovation as the main body, rely on their advantages in professional fields, and provide guarantees for various factors. Relevant industry associations and think tank consulting agencies should give full play to the role of a bridge and link between communicating the government and serving enterprises, do a good job in policy publicity and interpretation, promptly reflect the demands of the industry and enterprises, provide information services for relevant departments and enterprises, and build a bridge of communication and cooperation.

(20) Promote collaborative innovation. Relying on the national energy science and technology innovation system, we will promote the construction of a number of energy digital and intelligent R&D innovation platforms, actively explore mechanisms such as "revealing the list and taking charge" and "horse racing", carry out systematic research around the key directions of energy digital and intelligent technology innovation, accelerate the research and development of cutting-edge and key core technologies and equipment, and improve the independent and controllable level of the entire industrial chain. Give full play to the leading role of leading enterprises, encourage private enterprises and social capital to actively participate in the innovation of energy digital and intelligent technology, support enterprises to jointly initiate the establishment of an energy digital and intelligent innovation alliance with scientific research institutions, universities, financial institutions, social service institutions, etc., vigorously promote the deep integration of industry, academia and research, encourage international cooperation, build an open and shared innovation ecosystem, and accelerate the two-way iteration of scientific and technological research and development and the application of scientific and technological achievements.

(21) Increase support. The energy authorities at all levels should increase support for various types of energy digitalization and intelligence demonstration projects clearly defined by the state and give priority to the inclusion of relevant plans. Technical equipment related to the demonstration of digital and intelligent energy innovation and application will be given priority in the support scope of the first major technical equipment in the energy field, enjoy relevant preferential and support policies, and give priority to industry evaluations. Give full play to the guiding role of fiscal funds, implement support policies such as investment, taxation, finance, insurance, intellectual property rights, etc. to promote digital technology innovation, make good use of scientific and technological innovation re-lending and carbon emission reduction support tools, encourage financial institutions to innovate products and services, increase financial support for energy digital and intelligent technology innovation, and form a long-term mechanism to support the development of energy digital and intelligent technology.

National Energy Administration

March 28, 2023