Several Opinions of the National Energy Administration on Accelerating the Development of Digital and Intelligent Energy

2024-11-08 16:04:07 国家能源局

Energy Bureaus of all provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government), Development and Reform Commissions of relevant provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and relevant central enterprises:

Promoting the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy and enabling the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of traditional industries is a strategic choice to seize new opportunities in the 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 for promoting 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 development of energy. In order to accelerate the development of digital and intelligent energy, the following opinions are put forward.

I. General requirements

(I) Guiding ideology. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, we will thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, based on the new development stage, fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, implement the innovation-driven development strategy, promote the deep integration of digital technology and energy industry development, strengthen the construction of new infrastructure integrating traditional energy with digital and intelligent technologies, release the value potential of energy data elements, strengthen network and information security, effectively improve the level of digital and intelligent development of energy, promote the development of energy digital economy and green, low-carbon and 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-driven. In response to the digital and intelligent transformation and development needs of industries such as electricity, coal, oil and gas, through the integration and application of digital and intelligent technologies, urgent needs are prioritized, easy needs are prioritized, and transformation and development shortcomings are supplemented by industry, link and stage, providing effective support for high-quality energy development.

Digital empowerment. Give full play to the potential of smart grid to extend and expand energy network, promote the formation of energy intelligent control system, and improve the level of accurate and efficient resource allocation; promote the coverage and application of digital and intelligent technology in the whole chain and all links of coal and oil and gas production, supply, storage and sales system, and improve the overall energy efficiency, safe production and green and low-carbon level of the industry.

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

Fusion and innovation. Focus on original and leading innovation, accelerate the innovative application of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital twins, the 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 energy industry.

(III) Development goals. By 2030, the digital and intelligent innovation application system of all links of the energy system will be initially constructed, the potential of data elements will be fully activated, a number of common key technologies that restrict the development of energy digitalization and intelligence will achieve breakthroughs, the intelligent perception and intelligent control system of the energy system will be formed faster, new models and new forms of energy digitalization and intelligence will continue to emerge, the operation and management mode of the energy system will accelerate the transformation to comprehensive standardization, deep digitalization and high intelligence, the network and information security protection 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 accelerated, and the quality and efficiency will be accelerated. The integrated development of digital technology and energy industry will fully demonstrate its support for improving the quality and efficiency of the energy industry and the "dual control" of carbon emission intensity and total volume.

2. Accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the industry

(IV) Accelerate the clean and low-carbon transformation of power generation with digital and intelligent technology. Develop new energy and hydropower power prediction technology, and comprehensively analyze relevant meteorological elements, power supply status, power grid operation, user demand, energy storage configuration and other variable factors. Strengthen the intelligent technology transformation of large-scale new energy bases, improve the regulation and support capabilities of weak sending end systems, improve the intelligent level of distributed new energy, promote the 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 upgrading of traditional power sources such as thermal power and hydropower, promote the development and application of intelligent distributed control systems, assist coal-fired units in energy-saving and carbon-reduction transformation, flexibility transformation, and heating transformation, and promote pumped storage and new energy storage to give full play to their flexible regulation role. Promote the in-depth application of digital technology in all fields and links such as nuclear power design, manufacturing, construction, operation and maintenance, build a smart nuclear power plant with comprehensive perception and intelligent operation, and comprehensively improve the level of protection such as nuclear safety, network security and data security.

(V) Support the construction of new power systems with digital and intelligent power grids. Promote the digital presentation, simulation and decision-making of physical power grids, explore the application of artificial intelligence and digital twins in intelligent auxiliary decision-making and regulation of power grids, improve the intelligent level of multi-energy complementary joint dispatching of power systems, promote data-driven intelligent assessment and early warning of transient stability of power grids, improve the simulation and analysis capabilities of power grids, and support safe and stable operation of power grids. 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 sources and new energy storage resources on the user side. Improve the load forecasting accuracy and the intelligent management level of new power loads, promote the hierarchical, graded and classified aggregation and coordinated optimization management of load-side resources, and accelerate the promotion of load-side resources to participate in system regulation. Develop an electricity carbon metering and accounting monitoring system, promote the interactive coupling of electricity market and carbon market data, and support the monitoring and analysis of carbon footprints in the energy industry.

(VI) Drive safe and efficient coal production with digital and intelligent technologies. Promote the construction of an intelligent geological support system to improve the accuracy of mine geological condition detection and the transparency of geological information. Improve the intelligent control level of coal mining equipment, accelerate the realization of intelligent coordinated operation of mining-support-transportation, remote control on the ground and unmanned/few-man operation underground in coal mining working faces, and accelerate the realization of cooperative operation of digging-support-anchor-transport-breaking multiple processes, intelligent and rapid excavation and remote control in tunneling working faces. Promote the intelligent unattended operation of the main coal flow transportation system in coal mines, and realize the intelligent dispatching and comprehensive management of transportation vehicles in the auxiliary transportation system. 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 in 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 in open-pit coal mines. Support coal mines to build an intelligent coal mine comprehensive management and control platform that integrates intelligent geological support, intelligent mining (stripping), intelligent washing, and intelligent security control.

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

(VIII) Accelerate energy conservation and efficiency improvement in energy consumption links with digital and intelligent energy use. Continue to tap the potential of demand-side response, focus on typical adjustable loads such as traditional high-energy industrial loads, interruptible loads for industrial and commercial use, electric vehicle charging networks, and smart buildings, explore price incentives such as peak and valley time-of-use electricity prices, high-reliability electricity prices, and interruptible load electricity prices, promote intelligent management of flexible loads, optimized operation of virtual power plants, and accurate matching of demand response resources by stratification and zoning, and improve the level of multi-channel intelligent interaction of green energy use. Focusing on industrial parks and large public buildings, with the goal of improving the efficiency of terminal energy utilization, promote the construction of multi-energy complementary integrated energy supply infrastructure and improve the level of comprehensive cascade utilization of energy. Promote the popularization of intelligent energy services such as self-optimization of energy consumption and multi-energy coordinated dispatching, guide users to implement technical energy conservation and management energy conservation strategies, vigorously promote the innovation of intelligent energy service models, and expand diversified value-added services such as energy trusteeship, carbon emission measurement, and green electricity trading for end users. Relying on the construction of new energy infrastructure, promote energy conservation and efficiency improvement in energy consumption links and the coordinated planning of smart city and digital village construction, and support the construction of regional energy green and low-carbon circular development system.

(IX) Promote the construction of digital energy ecology with new models and new formats. Improve the level of intelligent coordination and control of energy storage and energy supply and energy consumption systems, and diagnosis and operation and maintenance, accelerate the construction of a national new energy storage big data platform, and improve the information collection and reporting channels and mechanisms of various provinces (regions). Improve the level of intelligent regulation and safety warning of hydrogen energy infrastructure, explore the potential of coordinated optimization of hydrogen energy across energy networks, and promote the integrated development of hydrogen and electricity. Promote the deep coupling of integrated energy services with new smart cities, smart parks, smart buildings and other energy scenarios, and use digital technology to improve the green and low-carbon benefits of integrated energy services. Promote the integration of new energy vehicles into new power systems, improve the level of intelligent orderly charging and discharging, and encourage the development of new models and new formats such as vehicle-grid interaction and photovoltaic storage charging and discharging. Explore the co-construction and sharing of new energy infrastructure, and improve the comprehensive utilization efficiency of basic resources and reduce construction and operation costs on the premise of ensuring safety, compliance with regulations, and clear responsibilities. Promote the construction of big data monitoring, early warning and comprehensive service platform systems 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 demand layout analysis and judgment, 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 engineering to explore and expand digital and intelligent applications according to local conditions, focus on promoting the application scenarios such as smart power plants, new energy and energy storage grid connection, intelligent inspection and disaster monitoring of transmission lines, smart substations, self-healing distribution networks, smart microgrids, hydrogen-electric coupling, distributed energy intelligent regulation, virtual power plants, electricity-carbon data linkage monitoring, smart reservoirs and dams, smart coal mines, smart oil and gas fields, smart pipelines, smart refineries, integrated energy services, industry big data centers and integrated service platforms. Demonstration projects undertake systematic digital and intelligent pilot tasks, and conduct in-depth exploration and trial in terms of technological innovation, operation models, and development formats.

(11) Strengthen the evaluation and management of pilot demonstration projects. Strengthen the implementation monitoring of pilot demonstration projects, establish a regular project information reporting and monitoring long-term mechanism, and improve the level of project management informatization. Establish a pilot demonstration effectiveness evaluation mechanism, give full play to the capabilities and roles of industry associations (academies), think tanks and consulting agencies 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 practices and successful experiences that can be replicated and promoted, organize and select a batch of advanced, reliable, mature and applicable, with broad application prospects and strong driving force demonstration content, promote and apply them to similar scenarios in the field, strengthen benchmark demonstration and leadership, and ensure practical results.

IV. Promote common technological breakthroughs

(XII) Promote breakthroughs in intelligent perception and intelligent terminal technologies for energy equipment. Accelerate the research and development of intelligent sensing and measurement technologies for energy equipment, and improve the level of multi-sensor collaborative perception, real-time data collection and precise measurement and monitoring for massive terminals. Promote the integrated application of advanced positioning and timing technologies 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 human-machine interaction capabilities and the level of complete sets of intelligent equipment, and serve typical business scenarios of digital intelligence of energy infrastructure such as remote equipment control, intelligent inspection, intelligent operation and maintenance, fault diagnosis, and emergency rescue. Promote the development of energy equipment state recognition, reliability assessment and fault diagnosis technology based on artificial intelligence.

(XIII) Promote breakthroughs in intelligent 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 simulation analysis of energy systems. Accelerate the research on low-cost, high-performance information and communication technologies for the application of information-physical fusion energy systems, realize the integration of new communication technologies, perception technologies and energy equipment terminals, and improve the on-site perception, computing and data transmission interaction capabilities. Promote the research on intelligent control and security simulation methods with high integration of energy flow and information flow, strengthen the integration sharing and big data analysis and processing of multi-source data collection, data privacy protection, and development of energy system control and decision-making support technologies 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 the unified coordinated dispatch of multiple energy sources, and support the system's wide-area mutual assistance regulation, new energy supply and consumption, and safe and stable operation.

(XIV) Promote breakthroughs in energy system network security technology. Strengthen the research on energy equipment and system protection technology that integrates ontological security and network security, accelerate the application of endogenous security theory and technology in the field of energy system network security, improve the level of network security intelligent protection technology, strengthen network security warning and response disposal of monitoring and dispatching 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, develop energy data trusted sharing and precise traceability technology, strengthen the confirmation of rights and dynamic access control in data sharing, improve the technical support capabilities such as sensitive data leakage monitoring and abnormal data flow analysis, promote the construction of a trusted data circulation environment, and improve data circulation efficiency.

V. Improve the development support system

(15) Enhance the network security protection capability of the energy system. Promote coal mines to build a dynamic defense system of "early warning, monitoring, and response" covering the entire life cycle of the business, improve the active defense capability of oil and gas field industrial hosts, strengthen the network security protection of power plant industrial control systems, promote the dynamic network security protection, cloud security protection, and mobile security protection upgrades of traditional energy plants (stations), and accelerate the realization of core equipment control systems that are safe, reliable, and autonomous and controllable. 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 autonomous, controllable, safe, and reliable applications of industrial control systems, chips, operating systems, and general basic software and hardware in the energy field.

(16) Promote the classification and grading management and shared application of energy data. Promote the construction of a classification and grading protection system for data in the energy industry and strengthen data security governance. For data with high security sensitivity, we will 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, we will improve the right confirmation, circulation, transaction and allocation mechanism, orderly promote the sharing of data in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, promote the online circulation and online tracking of the entire process of data sharing, and support convenient data sharing applications. Strengthen the data security supervision of industry big data centers, strengthen the monitoring of data security risk situation, and standardize data use. Fully combine the construction of a national integrated big data center system, promote the large-scale intensive layout and coordinated linkage of computing resources, and improve the efficiency of computing power use.

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

(XVIII) Accelerate the training of energy digitalization and intelligence talents. Deepen the integration of industry and education in the field of energy digitalization and intelligence, 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, accelerate the training of young and middle-aged backbone talents in energy digitalization and intelligence, and accelerate the cultivation of a group of cross-border compound talents with knowledge and skills in the integration of energy technology and digital technology. Encourage the inclusion of energy digitalization and intelligence talents in the support scope of various talent plans, and optimize talent evaluation and incentive policies. Promote exchanges and introduction, and vigorously attract overseas high-level talents in the field of energy digitalization and intelligence to return to China (come to China) to start businesses and engage in teaching and scientific research.

VI. Increase organizational support

(XIX) Strengthen organizational implementation. The National Energy Administration will take the lead in establishing a special coordination and promotion mechanism for the development of energy digitalization and intelligence, and work with relevant departments to solve major problems in a division of labor and cooperation, and guide local governments to improve relevant supporting policy mechanisms. All local energy authorities should establish and improve work mechanisms in accordance with the requirements of the opinions, and accelerate the development of energy digitalization and intelligence in their regions in light of the actual situation. All relevant enterprises should play the role of innovation subjects, rely on their professional advantages, and ensure the various elements. Relevant industry associations (academies), think tanks and consulting agencies should give full play to the role of bridges between the government and service 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 bridges for communication and cooperation.

(20) Promote collaborative innovation. Relying on the national energy science and technology innovation system, promote the construction of a number of energy digitalization and intelligence research and development innovation platforms, actively explore mechanisms such as "unveiling the list and taking charge" and "horse racing", carry out systematic research around the key directions of energy digitalization and intelligence technology innovation, accelerate the research and development of cutting-edge and key core technology equipment, and improve the level of independent control of the entire industry chain. Give full play to the leading role of leading enterprises, encourage private enterprises and social capital to actively participate in energy digitalization and intelligent technology innovation, support enterprises to take the lead in jointly initiating the establishment of energy digitalization and intelligent innovation consortiums with scientific research institutions, universities, financial institutions, social service agencies, 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.

(XXI) Increase support. Energy authorities at all levels should increase support for various energy digitalization and intelligent demonstration projects identified by the state and give priority to incorporating them into relevant plans. Priority should be given to the inclusion of relevant technical equipment related to energy digitalization and intelligent innovation application demonstration in the scope of support for the first major technical equipment in the energy field, enjoy relevant preferential and support policies, and give priority to industry evaluation and awards. Give full play to the guiding role of fiscal funds, implement investment, taxation, finance, insurance, intellectual property and other support policies to promote digital technology innovation, make good use of science and technology innovation re-loans and carbon emission reduction support tools, encourage financial institutions to innovate products and services, increase financial support for energy digitalization and intelligent technology innovation, and form a long-term mechanism to support the development of energy digitalization and intelligentization.

National Energy Administration
March 28, 2023