Jiangsu: Promoting the integrated application of renewable energy in buildings and expanding the application scenarios of distributed photovoltaic power generation

Recently, the Jiangsu Provincial Government issued a notice on several policy measures to accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development in Jiangsu Province. The notice mentions building a world-class green and low-carbon industrial cluster. Vigorously cultivate green and low-carbon industries such as photovoltaic, wind power, new energy vehicles, and energy conservation and environmental protection, and accelerate the cultivation of a group of leading enterprises and strategic emerging industrial clusters with global influence. Expand the application scenarios of distributed photovoltaic power generation, and promote the large-scale and three-dimensional development of offshore photovoltaic power generation. Implement three major projects: "Green Electricity into Jiangsu", "Green Electricity into Parks", and "Green Electricity into Enterprises".By 2030, the installed capacity of renewable energy power generation in the province will reach about 100 million kilowattsThe proportion of non-fossil energy consumption will reach about 25%, and the proportion of green electricity consumption by high energy-consuming enterprises will reach more than 30%.Promote the integrated application of renewable energy in buildings and the large-scale development of ultra-low energy consumption buildings. Establish a building energy efficiency rating system. By 2030, the photovoltaic coverage rate of usable roof area in newly built public institution buildings will reach more than 50%.Jiangsu Province accelerates economic and social development

Several policy measures for comprehensive green transformation

To thoroughly implement Xi Jinping Thought on Economics and Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, and to advance our province's goal of achieving, ahead of schedule by 2035, the basic establishment of a green, low-carbon, and circular economic development system, the widespread formation of green production and lifestyles, the achievement of internationally advanced levels of efficiency in the use of major resources and energy, and the comprehensive entry of economic and social development into a green and low-carbon trajectory, the following policies and measures are formulated. I. Comprehensive Construction of a Green and Low-Carbon Industrial System (1) Building a World-Class Green and Low-Carbon Industrial Cluster. Vigorously cultivate green and low-carbon industries such as photovoltaic power generation, wind power, new energy vehicles, and energy conservation and environmental protection, and accelerate the cultivation of a group of globally influential leading enterprises and strategic emerging industrial clusters. Prospectively lay out future industries such as hydrogen energy, new energy storage, zero-carbon and negative-carbon technologies, and synthetic biology, and support cities such as Suzhou and Nanjing in actively striving to become national-level pilot zones for future industries. By 2030, the scale of the energy conservation and environmental protection industry will reach around 1.2 trillion yuan, and a number of zero-carbon factories and parks will be built. Support will be provided for eligible projects in the form of manufacturing loan interest subsidies, specialized and new loan support, equipment subsidies, etc. Strengthen the element guarantee of major projects in the green and low-carbon field. (Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology take the lead). (2) Accelerating the Green Transformation of Traditional Industries. Deeply implement the traditional industry transformation project, accelerate the mandatory clean production audit of traditional industries, continuously promote large-scale equipment upgrading and transformation, and implement a batch of green and low-carbon transformation projects every year. Resolutely curb the blind development of "high energy consumption, high emissions, and low efficiency" projects. New, modified, and expanded projects in the steel, petrochemical, and building materials industries must meet energy efficiency benchmark levels and Class A environmental performance levels. By 2030, the proportion of short-process steelmaking will be no less than 20%. Support eligible projects in issuing transformation bonds, applying for national debt funds, funds for the construction of a strong manufacturing province, and loan interest subsidy support. (Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment take the lead). (3) Cultivating and Expanding the Green and Low-Carbon Service Industry. Actively promote a "one-stop" integrated service model and energy performance contracting, covering energy-saving consulting, diagnosis, design, financing, and renovation management, explore the implementation of smart ecological management, environmental entrustment, and contract environmental management, and cultivate services such as green electricity trading, carbon asset management, and carbon footprint certification. Support the building of a number of nationally influential green service industry clusters, and cultivate and strengthen leading enterprises in the green and low-carbon service industry. Encourage financial institutions to set up green finance professional departments or specialty branches. Promote the aggregation of high-level, international carbon professional service institutions, gradually improve the product carbon label certification system and long-term work mechanism, accelerate the construction of a public service platform for product carbon footprint and a background database for key industry carbon footprints, and by 2030, complete more than 500 carbon label certification applications. (Provincial Development and Reform Commission takes the lead). (4) Creating a Synergistic Advantage in Digital and Green Development. Continue to promote the integration of the real economy and the digital economy, and guide the green development of digital technology enterprises. Promote the green construction and operation of data centers, data centers, and base stations. Accelerate the digital technology empowerment of the green transformation of electricity, industry, transportation, and construction. Accelerate the establishment of a digital carbon management system and promote all types of users to "go to the cloud, use data, and empower intelligence." Deeply promote the "intelligent transformation, digital transformation, networking, and interconnection" of the manufacturing industry, and build a number of advanced and above intelligent factories. Promote the construction of Jiangsu's real 3D scene and the empowerment of spatiotemporal information applications. [Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Development and Reform Commission (Provincial Energy Bureau), Provincial Department of Natural Resources, etc., shall be responsible according to their respective responsibilities] II. Accelerating the Construction of a Clean and Low-Carbon Energy System (5) Accelerating the Low-Carbon Transformation of Energy Supply. Promote the safe, reliable, and orderly substitution of fossil energy with non-fossil energy. Explore the application of technologies such as biofuel co-firing, green ammonia, and carbon capture, utilization, and storage, and promote the continuous decline of carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. Accelerate the construction of offshore wind power, promote the development of distributed wind power and the upgrading and transformation of old wind turbines. Expand the application scenarios of distributed photovoltaics, and promote the large-scale and three-dimensional development of offshore photovoltaics. Steadily promote nuclear energy heating, develop biomass energy and geothermal energy in a targeted manner, accelerate the layout of a batch of sustainable fuel projects, actively promote the development of the entire hydrogen energy "production, storage, transportation, and use" chain, and implement the "green electricity into Jiangsu," "green electricity into parks," and "green electricity into enterprises" three major projects. By 2030, the installed capacity of renewable energy power generation in the province will reach about 100 million kilowatts, and the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption will reach about 25%. [Provincial Development and Reform Commission (Provincial Energy Bureau) takes the lead]. (6) Comprehensive Promotion of Green Substitution of Energy Consumption. Vigorously promote renewable energy substitution, strengthen the coupled development of renewable energy with the steel, petrochemical, chemical, and building materials industries, promote technologies such as electric boilers, electric kilns, and electric heating, and explore green hydrogen refining and hydrogen metallurgy. Strictly and reasonably control the total amount of coal consumption, continue to promote the clean and efficient utilization of coal, and ensure that coal consumption will gradually decrease during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Encourage the implementation of a renewable energy consumption commitment system for newly added projects. By 2030, the proportion of green electricity consumption by high energy-consuming enterprises will reach more than 30%. Establish and improve market mechanisms for renewable energy heating, biogas, and green hydrogen. (Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology shall be responsible according to their respective responsibilities). (7) Accelerating the Construction of a New Power System. Promote the transformation from "source following load" to "integrated interaction of source, network, load, and storage," and accelerate the construction of smart microgrids, virtual power plants, and integrated source-network-load-storage projects. Accelerate the construction of coastal new power systems. By 2030, it is planned to build about 20 pilot parks for new power system applications, and the installed capacity of new energy storage and pumped hydro storage will reach about 13 million kilowatts. Implement price support policies for new energy storage, on-grid electricity Price policies for natural gas power generation and clean hydropower transmission to Jiangsu landing electricity price mechanisms, and explore a power market system that reflects the value of different qualities of electricity. [Provincial Development and Reform Commission (Provincial Energy Bureau) takes the lead] III. Accelerating the Green Upgrading of Infrastructure (8) Vigorously Developing Green and Low-Carbon Buildings. Improve the proportion of two-star and above green buildings in newly built buildings, promote the integrated application of renewable energy in buildings, and the large-scale development of ultra-low energy consumption buildings. Increase government procurement support for the promotion of green building materials, and promote green construction and intelligent construction. Use advanced and efficient energy-saving equipment, promote the green energy-saving transformation of existing buildings, and strengthen the energy management of public buildings. High-standard promotion of the construction of provincial urban and rural construction carbon peak and carbon neutrality pilot areas. Establish a building energy efficiency grading system. By 2030, the photovoltaic coverage rate of usable roof area in newly built public institutions buildings will reach more than 50%. (Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Bureau of Administration of Affairs take the lead). (9) Accelerating the Green Transformation of Transportation. Accelerate the construction of "water transportation in Jiangsu," build a characteristic multimodal transport and river-sea-river intermodal transport system, and focus on improving the proportion of railway and waterway transport of bulk goods. Accelerate "transportation and energy integration," green transformation of transportation infrastructure such as hub stations, highways, and service areas, and accelerate the construction of charging (replacement) stations, hydrogen refueling stations, shore power, and other infrastructure networks. Accelerate the construction of urban intelligent transportation management systems and build a green transportation system that deeply integrates "rail + public transportation + non-motorized transportation." Accelerate the development of electric passenger vehicles, comprehensively promote the green transformation of buses, public service vehicles, trucks, ships, aircraft, and machinery, and carry out pilot applications of pure electric inland container ships on a large scale. By 2030, the penetration rate of new energy vehicles will be further improved. Implement and optimize policies for railway-water-road intermodal transport, tax and fee preferential treatment for new energy vehicles and ships, and financial support. (Provincial Department of Transportation takes the lead). (10) Improving the Urban and Rural Living Environment. Orderly promote urban renewal, sponge cities, and "zero-waste cities" construction, and accelerate the energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of old pipelines such as gas, water supply and drainage, and urban lighting and other municipal infrastructure. Promote the updating and improvement of urban parks and function enhancement, accelerate the intelligent upgrading of urban facilities and the application of the Internet of Things. Promote the updating and energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of urban and rural sewage treatment facilities and equipment. By 2030, a new batch of green and low-carbon benchmark sewage treatment plants will be added. Promote the improvement and increase of efficiency of garbage classification, strengthen the entire chain management of construction waste. Promote green rural housing construction and transformation according to local conditions. Optimize the rural energy structure and accelerate the application of solar energy and air energy. Promote the co-processing of agricultural and forestry waste, livestock and poultry manure, and rural organic waste, and rationally layout centralized biomass clean heating and biogas projects. Make up for the shortcomings in the treatment of rural domestic garbage and sewage, and toilet renovation, and comprehensively improve the rural living environment. [Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Provincial Development and Reform Commission (Provincial Energy Bureau), Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs shall be responsible according to their respective responsibilities] IV. Solidly Promoting the Comprehensive Conservation of Resources Strategy (11) Integrated Promotion of Energy Saving, Carbon Reduction, and Efficiency Improvement. Actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and promote key enterprises to carry out carbon emission reports, energy and carbon emission measurement reviews, and promote the "diagnosis + transformation" model of energy saving and carbon reduction. Encourage the implementation of the "energy efficiency decides the hero," "mu output decides the hero" mechanism, and carry out multi-level pilot programs for collaborative innovation in pollution reduction and carbon reduction. Orderly promote the incorporation of carbon emission evaluation into the energy conservation review of fixed asset investment projects and the incorporation of greenhouse gas emission control into environmental impact assessment. Improve the energy saving acceptance mechanism and improve the normalized energy saving supervision mechanism. Implement differentiated electricity price systems for high energy-consuming industries. (Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment shall be responsible according to their respective responsibilities). (12) Full Process Strengthening of Intensive and Efficient Utilization of Resources. Implement the rigid constraint system of water resources, strictly control both the total amount and intensity of water use, develop the water-saving industry, and increase the use of unconventional water sources. Solidly promote the work of saving and reducing losses and combating food waste in various links of grain production, storage, transportation, processing, and consumption. Implement the strictest arable land protection system, deeply promote the revitalization of existing land, improvement of quality and efficiency of industrial park land use, and improvement of the utilization efficiency of sea areas. By 2030, the per-unit area of GDP construction land use area will decrease by more than 30% compared with 2020. (Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Natural Resources, Provincial Department of Water Resources, etc., shall be responsible according to their respective responsibilities). (13) Full Chain Promotion of Resource Recycling. Strengthen the fine management and effective recovery of industrial, agricultural and forestry, and social waste. Promote the high-quality development of resource recycling and remanufacturing industries, and improve the quality of recycled materials and products. Focus on key links such as scrapped vehicle, waste home appliance dismantling, waste plastics, waste textiles, waste battery dismantling, and decommissioned wind and solar equipment recycling, strengthen resource recovery and recycling, and build a number of characteristic circular industry clusters. By 2030, the main resource output rate will increase by about 45% compared with 2020. Implement "reverse invoicing" measures for resource recovery enterprises. (Provincial Development and Reform Commission takes the lead). V. Prospectively Laying Out Green Technology Innovation Tracks (14) Strengthening Green Technology Innovation Source. Establish a mechanism for the evaluation of cutting-edge disruptive technologies, and focus on building a number of major scientific and technological innovation platforms in areas such as low-carbon technology iteration, zero-carbon energy innovation, and negative-carbon technology application. Focusing on key areas such as new high-efficiency photovoltaic cells, all-solid-state batteries, advanced nuclear energy, green hydrogen energy, and new energy storage, adopt organizational methods such as "revealing and commanding" and "horse racing" to organize and implement a number of major scientific and technological projects with strategic needs and market needs. Focusing on key areas such as clean and low-carbon energy, zero-carbon industry, and biological carbon sequestration, increase the organization strength of provincial carbon peak and carbon neutrality scientific and technological innovation special funds projects, and concentrate efforts to overcome a number of key core technologies for green and low-carbon development. Comprehensively use loan interest subsidies, risk compensation, and financial rewards to actively guide enterprises and social capital into green and low-carbon technology research and development. (Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Finance, etc., shall be responsible according to their respective responsibilities). (15) Accelerating the Transformation of Green and Low-Carbon Technological Achievements. Focusing on frontier fields such as hydrogen energy, new energy storage, and bio-based substitution, lay out a number of concept verification centers and pilot test verification platforms. Encourage the sharing and use of scientific and technological facilities, scientific research data, and technological verification pilot test environments, and carry out pilot programs of "use first, then pay" for scientific and technological achievements for small and medium-sized enterprises. Accelerate the innovation of green technology application scenarios, encourage all parties to actively open up scenarios, and collect and publish a batch of green technology application scenario lists and typical cases every year. Establish a green and low-carbon technology achievement database and regularly release achievement catalogs. (Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Development and Reform Commission, etc., shall be responsible according to their respective responsibilities). VI. Actively Promoting the Green Transformation of Consumption Patterns (16) Accelerating the Guidance of Green Lifestyles. Vigorously advocate for simple and moderate, green, low-carbon, civilized, and healthy lifestyles and consumption patterns. Systematically promote the green transformation in various fields of eating, wearing, living, traveling, using, and touring, guide the public to save water, electricity, and gas, oppose extravagance and waste, promote the "light plate action," resist excessive packaging, reduce the use of disposable products, and advocate green travel. Encourage the carrying out of carbon credit actions, implement carbon neutrality for large-scale activities, and explore personal carbon accounts and carbon point incentive mechanisms. Give full play to the demonstration and leading role of public institutions. By 2030, promote 100% of county-level and above party and government organs in the province to become energy-saving organs. (Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Bureau of Administration of Affairs, Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, etc., shall be responsible according to their respective responsibilities). (17) Stimulating the Potential of the Green Consumption Market. Increase the supply of green products and encourage e-commerce and supermarkets to set up special areas for green products. Carry out the promotion of new energy vehicles and green and intelligent home appliances, environmental protection furniture, renewable energy heating and power generation equipment, water-saving and energy-saving kitchen and bathroom supplies, green building materials, etc., in rural areas. Encourage the development of green food, organic agricultural products, and agricultural products with carbon footprint labels. Support the replacement of old for new consumer goods, and accelerate the entry of intelligent and green high-quality and durable consumer goods into residents' lives. Actively promote green office work and accelerate the construction of online and offline integrated public goods warehouses. (Relevant departments shall be responsible according to their respective responsibilities). VII. Continuously Improving the Green Transformation Policy System (18) Accelerating the Construction of a Green Standard and Mark System. Serve the construction of a carbon peak and carbon neutrality standard system, focusing on areas such as product energy efficiency, carbon reduction and removal, and recycling and utilization, actively participate in the formulation of national standards, and supplement the formulation of local standards and group standards. Accelerate the construction of standards for product carbon footprint and zero-carbon parks. Improve the energy efficiency and water efficiency labeling system and actively carry out product carbon labeling certification work. By 2030, add more than 100 international standards and national standards related to green development that are led and participated in, and publish more than 200 local standards and group standards. (Provincial Market Supervision Bureau takes the lead). (19) Improving Green Transformation Fiscal, Tax, and Price Policies. Comprehensively use various tools such as financial rewards, interest subsidies, guarantee fee subsidies, and government procurement to support green transformation. Continue to implement fiscal policies linked to pollution reduction and carbon reduction results. Actively strive for the support of ultra-long-term special national debt funds and central budgetary funds for green transformation. Seriously implement tax incentives for environmental protection, energy saving and water saving, comprehensive resource utilization, new energy and clean energy vehicles and ships. Implement the coal-fired power capacity electricity Price mechanism and new energy electricity Price marketization reform policies. Dynamically adjust agricultural water Prices, establish an incentive mechanism for the reduction of urban domestic waste, improve the differentiated charging policy for classified and mixed garbage, and optimize the tiered Price system for residents' water, electricity, and gas. (Provincial Department of Finance, Provincial Taxation Bureau, Provincial Development and Reform Commission take the lead). (20) Enriching Green Transformation Investment and Financing Policies. Make good use of relevant funds for the development of green industries, guide the development of green venture capital funds, equity investment funds, and patient capital. Support the issuance of green bonds and green asset-backed securities, and vigorously develop carbon-neutral bonds and green transformation bonds. Support green enterprises in listing financing and refinancing, and encourage the issuance of real estate investment trust (REITs) products in the infrastructure sector. Explore the use of corporate green performance as an important reference for loan approval, quota calculation, and interest rate pricing. Support financial institutions to incorporate corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into credit management. (Provincial Committee of Finance, People's Bank of China Jiangsu Branch, Jiangsu Financial Regulatory Bureau, Jiangsu Securities Regulatory Bureau take the lead). (21) Improving Marketized Mechanisms for Green Transformation. Improve the marketized allocation system for resources and environmental factors, and explore financing tools based on resource and environmental rights. Actively participate in the construction of the national carbon emission rights trading market and the greenhouse gas voluntary emission reduction trading market. Coordinate the promotion of trading in green electricity, green certificates, carbon emission rights, and water rights, and encourage green electricity and green certificate trading. Improve the horizontal ecological compensation mechanism and improve the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products. Orderly promote the innovation of the ecological environment-oriented development (EOD) model. (Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, Provincial Development and Reform Commission, etc., shall be responsible according to their respective responsibilities).