Shanghai: Comprehensive implementation of the "PV +" project PV installed capacity of 4.5GW by 2027

Recently, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government issued a notice of "Shanghai Municipality Accelerates Green and Low Carbon Transformation Action Program (2024-2027)", which pointed out that the full implementation of the "photovoltaic +" project, by 2027, the city's installed photovoltaic capacity reached 4.5 million kilowatts. Accelerate the completion and grid connection of offshore wind power projects in Hangzhou Bay and other regions, and promote the development and construction of the first batch of deep-sea wind power. Promote the construction of projects such as Caojing and Waigaoqiao Capacity Expansion Replacement, and reserve all carbon capture interfaces and sites. Promote energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of coal power, flexibility transformation, and heating transformation, with the flexibility transformation and upgrading of replacement units reaching a peak shifting depth of more than 70%. Increase the introduction of clean power outside the city, accelerate the construction of clean power bases outside the city, and build "seven crosses and five straight" external power transmission channels. Accelerate the large-scale application of new energy storage, demand-side response and V2G technology development, and carry out the construction of virtual power plants and demonstration of regional source-grid-load-storage integration, so that by 2025, the demand-side peak load response capacity will be no less than 5%.

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Circular of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government on the Issuance of the Shanghai Municipal Action Program for Accelerating Green and Low Carbon Transformation (2024-2027)

Shanghai Fu Fa [2024] No. 8

People's governments of all districts, municipal commissions, offices and bureaus, and all relevant units:

Shanghai Municipality Accelerates Green and Low Carbon Transformation Action Program (2024-2027) is hereby issued to you, please follow it carefully.

Shanghai Municipal People's Government

August 22, 2024

Shanghai Action Program for Accelerating Green and Low Carbon Transition (2024-2027)

In order to deeply implement the requirements of the state and the city on the deployment of carbon peak carbon neutral work, with major application scenarios as the traction, technological breakthroughs as the kernel, and institutional mechanism innovation as the guarantee, to accelerate the cultivation of key green and low-carbon industries, and to further promote the city's green and low-carbon transformation, the formation of a new quality of productive forces, and to promote the economic and social development in a sustainable and high-quality way, to formulate the action program.

I. Green and low-carbon transition in key areas

(i) Energy

Fully implement the "PV+" project, and by 2027, the installed capacity of PV in the city will reach 4.5 million kilowatts. Accelerate the completion and grid connection of offshore wind power projects in Hangzhou Bay and other regions, and promote the development and construction of the first batch of deep-sea wind power. Promote the construction of projects such as Caojing and Waigaoqiao Capacity Expansion Replacement, and reserve all carbon capture interfaces and sites. Promote energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of coal power, flexibility transformation, and heating transformation, with the flexibility transformation and upgrading of replacement units reaching a peak shifting depth of more than 70%. Increase the introduction of clean power outside the city, accelerate the construction of clean power bases outside the city, and build "seven crosses and five straight" external power transmission channels. Accelerate the large-scale application of new energy storage, demand-side response and V2G technology development, and carry out the construction of virtual power plants and demonstration of regional source-network-load-storage integration, so that by 2025, the demand-side peak load response capacity will be no less than 5% (Responsible units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Economy and Informatization Commission, Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Municipal Planning and Resource Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Oceanography, and all districts).

(ii) Industrial sector

Promote the energy efficiency of key processes in Baowu Group's Shanghai base to reach the level of demonstration benchmark, carry out the utilization of waste heat and energy resources, and promote the upgrading and transformation of production processes and key energy-using equipment for energy conservation and carbon reduction, so as to realize energy savings of 1% per year.Promote the transformation of iron and steel production processes from long to short processes, and increase the utilization of scrap steel resources. By 2025, the ratio of scrap steel will reach more than 15%; it will have the technical ability to reduce carbon by 30%, and the carbon emission intensity of tons of steel will be reduced by about 5% compared with that of 2020. Increase the development and production of high-performance steel such as oriented silicon steel for high-efficiency transformers, and realize the large-scale supply of high-grade green low-carbon products. Continuously promote the overall transformation of key areas such as Gaoqiao and Wujing. Implement technological transformation such as short-flow preparation of basic chemicals, promote system energy saving and energy integration and optimization, achieve energy saving of 1% per year, and promote the unit consumption level of key products such as crude oil processing and ethylene to reach the advanced level in the industry. Promote the gradient utilization of energy and recycling of materials, and strengthen the efficient utilization of by-product gases such as dry gas and liquefied gas in refineries. Build a "park within a park" in the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park, focusing on carbon-neutral and key new materials and other industries. We will carry out energy-efficiency diagnosis and energy audits, promote the renewal and upgrading of key energy-using equipment, push forward the implementation of a number of energy-saving and carbon-reducing technological transformation projects, and continue to push forward the demonstration of green manufacturing. (Responsible units: Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, Administrative Committee of Chemical Industry Zone, and relevant districts)

(iii) Transportation

Optimize the functional structure of the bus network and strengthen the integration of the rail and bus networks. Combined with urban renewal and the "15-minute living circle" to create a convenient and comfortable slow-moving traffic system, improve the quality of sidewalk facilities and optimize the walking environment. By 2027, the proportion of green transportation in the central city will reach 75% or more. Accelerate the full electrification of urban public sector vehicles, and by 2025, buses and cruising cabs will be basically electrified. Party and government organs, state-owned enterprises and institutions, sanitation, postal services and other public sector new or renewed vehicles in principle, the use of new energy vehicles; encourage urban freight vehicles, rental cars, city chartered vehicles have the appropriate model of new or renewed vehicles using new energy vehicles. Encourage the development of electrification in the field of social passenger vehicles, and by 2027, the proportion of pure electric vehicles in the newly purchased vehicles of individuals will be more than 50%. Promote new energy medium and heavy trucks in an orderly manner, and actively promote the application of fuel cell heavy trucks and trucks. Promote direct river and sea transport, inland river container transport, and build a multimodal transportation center in Lingang. By 2027, the volume of sea-railway intermodal transport collection and evacuation will reach about 1 million TEU, and the ratio of container water-to-water transshipment will strive to increase to more than 52%. Eliminate old airplanes and ships, improve energy-saving and carbon-reducing technologies such as airframe and hull configurations, power systems, etc., and continuously improve energy efficiency of airplanes, ships and other means of transportation. Promote the application of electrification for inland waterway vessels, and encourage new ferries, Huangpu River cruise ships and other inland waterway vessels to adopt electric drive. Promote the use of green alternative fuels in aviation and ocean shipping. By 2027, the city's consumption of green methanol for ocean-going vessels will reach more than 100,000 tons, and the consumption of sustainable aviation fuel for airlines will reach more than 10,000 tons. Promote the construction of green airports and green ports, and adopt clean energy or new energy in principle for new and renewed operating machinery, on-site equipment and vehicles, and basically phase out non-road mobile machinery with National II or lower standards by 2027. (Responsible units: Municipal Transportation Commission, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Economy and Information Technology Commission, Municipal Airport Authority, Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Municipal Greening and Municipal Amenities Bureau, Municipal Commerce Commission, Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Municipal Public Security Bureau, Municipal Postal Administration, Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration, Civil Aviation Administration of East China, China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group, and each district)

(iv) Construction

In conjunction with the construction of the five new cities and urban renewal, key technological innovations and large-scale applications such as ultra-low-energy-consumption buildings, renewable-energy building integration, energy storage, and high-efficiency electrification alternatives for buildings will be carried out. Increase the energy-saving renovation of existing buildings, and on the basis of ensuring the completion of energy-saving renovation of 30 million square meters of existing buildings in the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan, complete energy-saving renovation of another 20 million square meters by 2027. New large-scale public buildings will be constructed in accordance with the three-star standard for green civil buildings. Promote ultra-low-energy-consumption buildings on a large scale, and by 2027, a total of 20 million square meters of ultra-low-energy-consumption buildings will be implemented. Promote the application of "photovoltaic+" in buildings, and by 2027, the coverage rate of photovoltaic on the roofs of public organizations and industrial plants will reach more than 50%. The city's building energy and carbon emission intelligent supervision platform will be built, and by 2027, 120 million square meters of public building area will be included in sub-metering and online monitoring. Implement a building energy efficiency measurement and labeling system. Encourage government-invested public buildings to take the lead in the construction of near-zero energy consumption and zero-carbon buildings. Combined with urban renewal and other efforts, encourage innovative demonstrations of near-zero energy consumption and zero-carbon for different types of buildings. Implement green construction in the whole process of engineering and construction, fully implement assembly-type buildings, promote fully-furnished residences, and promote the recycling and reuse of construction waste. Encourage the research and development of new building materials such as carbon reduction and carbon sequestration, and actively promote the application of green and low-carbon building materials and high-performance building products. Accelerate the promotion of efficient energy-saving technologies for data centers, such as liquid cooling and cold and hot channel isolation, and control the energy utilization efficiency (PUE) of newly built data centers to below 1.25, and the PUE of established data centers to be no higher than 1.4 after the implementation of renovation (Responsible units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Administration Committee, Municipal Economy and Information Technology Committee, Municipal Development and Reform Committee, Municipal Mechanical Administration, Municipal Housing Administration Bureau, Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Management Committee of the new Lingang Area

(v) Circular economy

Improve the "4+X" recycling system of renewable resources, and build four major resource recycling bases in Laogang, Baoshan, the north coast of Hangzhou Bay and Lingang. Promote all relevant districts and units to arrange 1% industrial land for supporting the development of recycling economy enterprises. Establish an all-category, all-chain, traceable recycling system for renewable resources, optimize the layout of solid waste recycling sites and facilities, and strive to reach a total annual recycling volume of about 10 million tons/year of major renewable resources. Consolidate the effectiveness of zero landfill for primary domestic waste, accelerate the research and application of resource utilization technology for solid waste incinerator slag and fly ash, and promote the city's solid waste to achieve near-zero landfill. Deepen the implementation of the recycling transformation of parks, and further expand the coverage of district-level parks. Promote the construction of a number of "waste-free parks" and "waste-free cells". Promote the orderly development of second-hand commodity trading, cultivate a number of leading enterprises in second-hand commodity trading, and build no less than two centralized large-scale "flea markets" per million people. Demonstration and promotion of advanced dismantling and utilization technologies in the fields of end-of-life motor vehicles, waste electronic and electrical products, waste power batteries, etc., and development of resource recycling equipment industry. Construct Shanghai's circular economy management service platform, and strengthen the monitoring and analysis of waste and renewable resources. (Responsible units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Commission of Commerce, Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, Municipal Greening and Municipal Facilities Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Municipal Bureau of Statistics, Administrative Committee of Lingang New Area, Administrative Committee of Chemical Industry Zone, and all districts)

II. Institutional innovations and safeguards

(i) Improvement of technological innovation mechanisms

(c) To formulate a strategic plan for the city's future energy and cutting-edge disruptive carbon-reducing technologies. Adopting mechanisms such as the "reveal the list of commanders" and the "horse-racing system" to promote low-carbon, zero-carbon and carbon-negative core technology research and basic research, establish a sound technology assessment system and a working mechanism for selection and optimization, and lay out a number of forward-looking and strategic cutting-edge disruptive scientific and technological projects. Promote the establishment of a public science and technology innovation resource sharing mechanism, and promote the opening and sharing of major scientific and technological infrastructure, large-scale scientific instrument facilities and scientific and technological information. Supporting the establishment of a number of new R&D institutions and key laboratories in the field of carbon peak carbon neutralization in the city, and driving the innovation linkage of "industry, academia, research, finance and media". Strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, and improve the testing, evaluation and certification system of green and low-carbon technologies and products. (Responsible units: Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Economy and Informatization Commission, Municipal Intellectual Property Office, Municipal Market Supervision Bureau)

(ii) Strengthening financial support mechanisms

Promote the innovation of green financial products and tools, and support the development of green credit, green bonds, green insurance, green notes, green financial leasing and other financial products and services by financial infrastructure organizations and financial institutions in Shanghai. Formulate guidelines for categorizing green projects and green benefit accounting and evaluation methods, establish green project libraries, and build and improve green financial service platforms. Support qualified enterprises to go public for financing and refinancing for the construction and operation of green and low-carbon projects, and encourage relevant enterprises and social capital to set up green and low-carbon industrial funds. Optimize the green financial performance evaluation standards of financial institutions, and guide financial institutions to provide long-term and low-cost funds for green and low-carbon projects. (Responsible units: Financial Office of the Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Shanghai Securities Regulatory Commission, Shanghai Headquarter of the People's Bank of China, Shanghai Financial Supervisory Bureau)

(iii) Improving energy market mechanisms

Accelerating the reform of the electricity market centered on the spot, relying on the financial market in Shanghai, and actively exploring the development of electricity futures and other products. Improve the market-oriented trading mechanism for distributed power generation, and support distributed green energy power generation entities to trade with power users in the same distribution network area in accordance with regulations. Promote the construction of trading platforms for hydrogen energy, green methanol, sustainable aviation fuel and other products. (Responsible units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, Municipal Commission of Transportation, Financial Office of Municipal Committee of CPC, Shanghai Securities Regulatory Bureau, Administrative Committee of Lingang New Area, and all districts)

(iv) Optimizing carbon pricing mechanisms

Improve the city's carbon emission right trading mechanism, optimize the carbon market quota allocation mechanism, and encourage the innovation of carbon emission right trading products and their derivatives. Encourage carbon financial innovation and accelerate the formation of a reasonably binding carbon price mechanism. Coordinate the effective connection between green power trading, green certificate trading and carbon emission right trading in the city. Give full play to the advantages of the national carbon emissions trading organization located in Shanghai, and explore the connection with the international carbon market. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Party Committee Financial Office, Shanghai Headquarters of the People's Bank of China, Shanghai Financial Supervisory Bureau, Shanghai Securities Regulatory Bureau)

(v) Improving financial security and price mechanisms

Governments at the municipal and district levels have increased funding to support energy-saving and carbon-reducing renovation, the renewal of energy-using equipment, and the upgrading of energy and carbon emission statistics and accounting capacity. Increase government procurement of green building materials, new energy vehicles and vessels, and other green and low-carbon products, and promote the establishment and improvement of green procurement mechanisms by state-owned enterprises. Establishing a sound price mechanism to promote the large-scale development of renewable energy, and exploring an electricity price mechanism that supports the development of new types of power systems such as new energy storage, renewable energy consumption and utilization, and load regulation. Optimize the differential tariffs and ladder tariff policies, and establish a user payment mechanism for power access overcapacity. (Responsible units: Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Economy and Informatization Commission, Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and all districts)

(vi) Improvement of industry cultivation mechanism

It will implement the action plan for the development of green and low-carbon industries, establish and improve the dynamic monitoring and assessment mechanism for the development of green and low-carbon industries, revise the green industry guidance catalog in due course, and guide the direction of industrial development. With parks as the carrier, a number of green and low-carbon industry demonstration bases will be constructed, and the deep integration of new materials, Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and other strategic emerging industries with green and low-carbon industries will be promoted. Encourage the development of related business entities, create a number of large-scale green industry groups, and cultivate small and medium-sized enterprises that are "specialized, special and new". Guiding various service organizations to improve their technical capabilities and service levels, and encouraging the development of carbon-related accounting, evaluation, certification, management, consulting and other businesses. (Responsible units: Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Municipal Commission of Science and Technology, Municipal Market Supervision Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Statistics, and all districts)

(vii) Strengthening green and low-carbon management mechanisms

Strengthening energy-saving and carbon reduction target responsibility and evaluation and assessment, consolidating annual key work plan arrangements, supervising the completion of target tasks, and improving the annual energy-saving and carbon reduction evaluation of various departments and districts. It has strengthened the analysis of the situation of energy conservation and carbon reduction, provided quarterly reminders and annual warnings on the fulfillment of energy conservation targets of industrial sectors, provided regular warnings on the fulfillment of energy conservation targets of district governments, and strengthened the supervision and guidance for departments and regions lagging behind in the progress of energy consumption intensity reduction. It has resolutely curbed the blind launching of high-energy-consumption, high-emission and low-level projects, incorporated the relevant requirements for carbon emission evaluation into the energy-saving review of fixed-asset investment projects, and rigorously carried out energy-saving review and acceptance. Further refine the management of key energy consumption and carbon emission units, strengthen the assessment and evaluation of energy conservation and carbon reduction targets, organize benchmarking, urge the strengthening of energy audits and energy conservation and carbon reduction renovation, optimize operation and management, and increase energy conservation monitoring and enforcement. Promote the gradual shift from dual control of energy consumption to dual control of carbon emissions, and establish and improve the carbon emission management system. Establish a product carbon footprint management system, improve the product carbon footprint standard measurement system, and build a background database of carbon footprints of key industries and products. Improve the green and low-carbon standard system, and implement a green and low-carbon product evaluation and labeling certification system. Support the main enterprises of green and low-carbon supply chain to form alliance organizations, and promote supply chain coordination and carbon reduction. Support enterprises and other business entities to carry out environmental, social and governance sustainable development practices. (Responsible units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Economy and Information Technology Commission, Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Municipal Market Supervision Bureau, Municipal Transportation Commission, Municipal Commerce Commission, Municipal Finance Office, Municipal Statistics Bureau, Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Shanghai Securities Regulatory Bureau, and all districts)

(viii) Strengthening social participation mechanisms

Combining the National Energy Conservation Awareness Week, National Ecology Day, World Earth Day, June 5 Environment Day, National Low Carbon Day and other thematic publicity activities, strengthen the publicity and education on green and low carbon for all. Accelerating the construction of a carbon-inclusive system. Encourage consumers to prioritize the purchase and use of green low-carbon products such as green home appliances and green lighting, and the installation and use of renewable energy facilities such as solar energy. Support the organization of conferences and activities related to carbon neutral technologies, products and achievements. Carry out pilot demonstrations of carbon peak carbon neutrality, and encourage various social organizations to jointly promote green and low-carbon transformation. (Responsible units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Municipal Education Commission, Municipal Commission of Commerce, Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Administration, Municipal Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and all districts)

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