Circular on Matters Concerning the Orderly Promotion of Multi-user Direct Green Power Connection Development
Development and Reform Commission of China · National Energy Administration
Document No.: Fa Gai Neng Yuan〔2026〕No.688
All development and reform commissions, energy bureaus of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps; Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Management, Tianjin Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Department of Industry and Information Technology of Liaoning Province, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Chongqing Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Department of Industry and Information Technology of Gansu Province; all dispatched institutions of the National Energy Administration; State Grid Corporation of China, China Southern Power Grid Company Limited, and relevant central enterprises:
To implement the spirits of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and all subsequent plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, improve policies and measures for new energy consumption and regulation, boost nearby local consumption of new energy, better meet the needs of energy green and low-carbon transformation, and steadily advance the goals of peaking carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality, based on the Circular on Matters Concerning the Orderly Promotion of Direct Green Power Connection Development (Fa Gai Neng Yuan〔2025〕No.650), relevant matters on promoting the orderly development of multi-user direct green power connection are hereby notified as follows:I. Scope of Application
Multi-user direct green power connection refers to a mode where new energy power generation including wind power, solar power generation and biomass power generation is not directly connected to the public power grid, and supplies green power to multiple users through dedicated power lines and power transformation facilities, realizing traceable and allocated power supply. The term "multiple users" refers to multiple distinct legal entities, excluding residential users and agricultural users. Multi-user direct green power connection projects (hereinafter referred to as Projects) are divided into grid-connected type and off-grid type based on public power grid access status. Grid-connected Projects are overall connected to the public power grid with clear physical and responsibility boundaries, and power sources shall be incorporated into the internal system of the Projects.
New power loads may be matched with newly-built new energy power sources to form multi-user direct green power connection Projects. Among existing power loads, single-user direct green power connection Projects may absorb other newly-built power loads and expand supporting new energy power sources to transform into multi-user Projects. Users with green power consumption demands (including enterprises subject to green power consumption ratio requirements, key energy-consuming and carbon emission enterprises, export-oriented enterprises with carbon reduction demands and their upstream and downstream enterprises) may leverage surrounding new energy resources to develop multi-user direct green power connection. All or part of power loads in industrial parks, zero-carbon parks and incremental power distribution networks can be connected to nearby new energy sources to set up such Projects.
Support new energy power generation projects without ongoing grid connection construction, and those restricted from grid connection due to insufficient new energy consumption to carry out multi-user direct green power connection after completing corresponding alteration formalities. Distributed photovoltaic power can participate in the mode via centralized convergence. Priority shall be given to promoting direct green power connection for emerging and future industries such as computing power infrastructure and green hydrogen-ammonia-alcohol industries. All Projects shall comply with national industrial policies, and enterprises are strictly prohibited from engaging in illegal and irregular activities via direct green power connection.
II. Planning, Investment and Construction
(1) Project Planning
Provincial competent energy authorities shall strengthen overall planning for such Projects. The installed capacity of new energy shall be rationally planned following the principle of "determining power sources based on power loads". The annual self-generated and self-consumed electricity volume shall account for no less than 60% of the total available generated electricity, and no less than 30% of the total power consumption, with the ratio raised to no less than 35% before 2030.
The installed scale of wind and solar power of Projects shall be incorporated into the new energy development and construction plans formulated by provincial competent energy authorities, and relevant planning administration requirements shall be implemented in accordance with Fa Gai Neng Yuan〔2025〕No.650. Projects and their internal resources are exempted from electric power business permits unless otherwise stipulated.
(2) Investment Modes
Each Project shall confirm an independent legal entity as the principal responsible entity. Such entity shall be legally qualified, which can be jointly established by power suppliers and power load users, or solely invested and established by either party. For park-based Projects, the principal responsible entity can be invested and established by park management committees or third-party institutions (excluding public power grid enterprises engaging in power transmission operation). Dedicated connecting lines, power transformation facilities, energy storage systems and operation platforms shall be constructed and invested by the principal responsible entity in principle.
The principal responsible entity shall fully utilize existing power facilities, and may use existing power facilities owned by other parties via leasing and other negotiated means on the premise of not affecting the division of responsibilities with the public power grid; if no consensus is reached, it may independently construct relevant facilities. Written agreements shall be signed between the principal responsible entity and internal power suppliers, load users and other parties to specify property right division, operation and maintenance obligations, power balance liabilities, internal expense standards, settlement rules and liability for breach of contract.
(3) Construction Administration
Projects shall be constructed in a coordinated and phased manner in line with overall planning, matching the commissioning schedule and scale of power loads and power sources.
If the grid-connected access capacity is adjusted after project completion, formalities such as system access reassessment shall be re-handled. Any newly-added new energy installed capacity within Projects shall be submitted to provincial competent energy authorities for approval and included in local new energy development plans. Power grid enterprises shall provide fair and non-discriminatory grid connection services for eligible Projects.
III. Operation Management
(4) Division of Responsibilities
The principal responsible entity shall assume liabilities for power outages caused by internal project factors, and reasonably divide liabilities among internal parties in accordance with the principle of "whoever causes the problem shall take responsibility" and signed internal agreements.
Grid-connected Projects and the public power grid shall respectively perform power safety risk management and control obligations within their respective jurisdiction scopes. The principal responsible entity of grid-connected Projects shall independently determine reasonable grid-connected access capacity based on internal source-load characteristics, power balancing capability and economic benefits. The public power grid shall fulfill power supply obligations in accordance with approved access capacity and signed agreements. The principal responsible entity shall establish internal power regulation mechanisms to ensure that power exchange volume between the Project and public grid does not exceed the approved access capacity.
Off-grid Projects shall independently take full charge of safety risk management and control within their coverage areas.
(5) Safe Operation Administration
Projects shall be equipped with secondary systems including relay protection devices, safety and stability control equipment and communication facilities in compliance with national standards. The principal responsible entity shall enhance operational management capacity, optimize the allocation of internal power sources and energy storage resources, formulate emergency power regulation and orderly power supply plans, clarify corresponding safety and economic liabilities, and submit relevant documents to provincial competent energy authorities for filing.
Grid-connected Projects shall be equipped with classified monitoring and control facilities according to access voltage level and capacity scale, monitor real-time power exchange volume with the public grid, and install network security monitoring and isolation devices. All internal facilities shall meet relevant technical standards, and relevant operational data shall be submitted to power dispatching institutions as required. Grid-connected Projects shall be incorporated into new-type power load management systems or power dispatching automation systems according to auxiliary service types provided for the power system, and subject to unified dispatching management by corresponding institutions based on access specifications. Dispatching plans shall be formulated on the basis of spot market clearing results; for grid-connected Projects participating in the power spot market as an integrated entity, the principal responsible entity shall ensure internal power balance in accordance with issued dispatching plans.
(6) Requirements for Nearby Local Consumption
Projects shall improve nearby local consumption capacity by rationally deploying energy storage systems, upgrading centralized control capabilities, tapping flexible power load regulation potential and developing multi-energy complementary utilization modes. Curtailed new energy power within Projects shall not be included in the statistical scope of national new energy utilization rate.
The peak-valley load difference rate of grid-connected Projects shall be reasonably defined in planning schemes, and the actual peak-valley difference rate of power exchanged with the public grid shall not exceed the planned index. To avoid increasing consumption pressure on the public power grid, the annual on-grid electricity volume of commissioned grid-connected Projects shall not exceed 20% of total available generated electricity, and provincial competent energy authorities may adjust the proportion according to local actual conditions. During periods identified as difficult for new energy consumption by provincial competent energy authorities, grid-connected Projects are prohibited from transmitting surplus power back to the public power grid.
IV. Trading and Pricing Mechanisms
(7) Power Market Participation Modes
Grid-connected Projects shall complete market registration as new-type market entities in accordance with the Basic Rules for Power Market Registration, while internal participants may conduct separate registration. Projects shall participate in power market transactions as an integrated entity with unified declaration submitted by the principal responsible entity. In the initial stage, Projects may participate in the power spot market via volume-only declaration without price quotation, and gradually switch to volume-and-price declaration when conditions are mature. Power grid enterprises are forbidden to act as purchasing agents for power procurement on behalf of such Projects.
(8) Power Metering Administration
Projects shall be equipped with separate metering facilities. Power grid enterprises shall install qualified bidirectional time-of-use metering devices at all key measurement points including internal power generation terminals, auxiliary power consumption points, grid connection interfaces, user power consumption terminals and energy storage access points. Unauthorized power consumption bypassing metering devices is strictly prohibited.
For grid-connected Projects, power access points connecting to the public grid shall serve as unified benchmark points for power metering and electricity fee settlement, and integrated electricity fee settlement shall be conducted between Projects and the public power grid.
(9) Internal Project Operation Administration
The principal responsible entity shall sign internal cooperation agreements with all internal participants to formulate reasonable internal settlement rules based on equal rights and obligations as well as fair cost-sharing principles, and adjust relevant rules regularly considering fluctuations of external market prices and actual load regulation capacity. The principal responsible entity is encouraged to optimize internal operation modes and promote coordinated source-load operation by formulating reasonable compensation standards for flexible power regulation.
(10) Pricing Mechanisms
Grid-connected Projects shall comply with relevant provisions of the Circular on Improving Pricing Mechanisms to Promote Nearby Local Consumption of New Energy Power Generation (Fa Gai Jia Ge〔2025〕No.1192), and fairly bear transmission and distribution tariffs, system operation fees and policy-based cross-subsidy costs. The principal responsible entity shall uniformly settle all electricity fees with the public power grid. Both grid-connected and off-grid Projects shall pay government-managed funds and surcharges in accordance with current policies. Electricity generated by new energy sources within such Projects shall not be included in the settlement scope of the new energy sustainable development pricing mechanism.
(11) Green Power Traceability Mechanism
The total self-generated and self-consumed electricity volume of grid-connected Projects shall be calculated by deducting on-grid electricity volume from actual internal new energy power generation volume (including stored new energy power released by energy storage facilities), forming integrated green power traceability data. Internal users’ self-consumed green power volume shall be calculated based on real-time power consumption proportion, realizing hourly matching between new energy power generation and consumption volume.
All internal power generation projects shall complete filing in the national renewable energy power generation project information management platform. Power grid enterprises shall calculate green power traceability results based on actual metering data, complete data verification as required, and push verified data to the national green certificate issuance and trading system. The issuance, transfer and cancellation of green certificates corresponding to self-generated and self-consumed green power shall be implemented in accordance with relevant national regulations.
V. Organizational Guarantees
The National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration will strengthen overall guidance on the direct green power connection mode, conduct regular effect evaluation, and promote its steady and standardized development.
Provincial competent energy authorities shall formulate detailed implementation rules in light of local power supply-demand situations and new energy consumption conditions, clarify specific standards covering eligible participants, user access boundaries, nearby consumption distance limits and maximum on-grid electricity proportion, and define exit mechanisms for power sources, power loads, connecting lines and power transformation facilities involved in Projects.
Provincial competent energy authorities shall optimize project approval and filing procedures adapting to multi-participant operational characteristics, organize qualified third-party institutions to conduct feasibility study reviews, fully solicit opinions from power grid enterprises and dispatched institutions of the National Energy Administration to ensure scientific project demand assessment, and strengthen whole-process supervision over project construction safety and operational performance.
Dispatched institutions of the National Energy Administration shall perform regulatory duties, track project construction progress and policy implementation status within their jurisdictions, and promote standardized construction and operation of all participating parties.
Power grid enterprises and power market operation institutions shall fully implement relevant policies, and continuously upgrade technical support capabilities and service levels to support project grid connection and power market participation.
National Development and Reform Commission
National Energy Administration
May 14, 2026
