On April 2, 2022, China's National Energy Administration and Ministry of Science and Technology issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for Science and Technology Innovation in the Energy Sector". Under the guidance of the new national energy security strategy and innovation-driven development strategy, accelerating the progress of energy science and technology has become the main focus, and energy storage science and technology innovation as an important part of supporting the high-quality development of energy, is also mentioned to an important height - the plan proposed energy storage technology innovation tasks include: energy type / capacity-type energy storage technology and equipment and System integration technology, power type / standby energy storage technology and equipment and system integration technology, energy storage battery common key technology, distributed energy storage and distributed power synergistic aggregation technology, large variable speed pumped storage and seawater pumped storage key technology, etc., which with the recently released "fourteen five" new energy storage development implementation plan" requires "Increase the research and development of key technologies and equipment" is closely related.

Now, the "dual carbon" era has officially arrived, On the guidance to promote the development of energy storage technology and industry ", the law of the People's Republic of China on the national economic and social development of 14 five-year plan and 2035 vision outline, "about to speed up the guidance to promote the development of new energy storage", "new energy storage project management specification (provisional)", "the central committee of the communist party of China, the State Council on complete and accurate to fully implement the new development Read to do a good job of carbon of peak carbon neutral opinion ", "2030 years ago carbon up to the peak action plan", "power grid operation and management regulations", "measures for the management of power auxiliary services", "about to speed up the construction of unified national electric power market system guidance", "about perfecting system of green low carbon energy transformation mechanism and policy measures", the "difference" new type of energy storage The implementation plan of the exhibition, the "14th Five-Year Plan for Modern Energy System", the "14th Five-year Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Energy Field" and other policies have been demonstrated and nurtured for many years, ushering in a high-boom growth track known as "long slope and thick snow" for energy storage technology application and industrial development.

The "National Innovation-driven Development Strategy Outline" released in 2016 proposes to be among the forefront of innovative countries by 2030, with research and experimental development (R&D) expenditure reaching 2.8% of GDP.

In the energy storage industry, innovation has exploded with unrelenting agglomeration - a large number of energy storage startups have emerged, power and energy companies have penetrated into energy storage, and close cooperation between industry, academia and research promotes the development of energy storage business groups.

Because of this, innovation is crucial to the future development of the energy storage industry and enterprises - innovation is mainly reflected in the following aspects.

From the perspective of achieving the dual carbon goal, energy storage should give full play to its power value, capacity value and energy value in the construction of new power systems, and truly grow into one of the three cornerstones of power system transformation in addition to smart grid and ultra-high voltage to better promote the low-carbon transformation of the economy and society.

From the viewpoint of strategic science and technology power, energy storage industry has the responsibility to solve the key "neck", break through the frontier technology through integrated innovation, reduce the cost of energy storage system, improve the efficiency of energy storage system, and upgrade from technology breakthrough to industrial ecology, realize the transformation from auxiliary support position to independent leading position, and gradually become the standard for new energy and new infrastructure. .

From the energy security strategy, energy storage must contribute to the increasing share of new energy to the grid consumption and grid security rigid demand gap, the power system's flexible and flexible and stable efficacy, to ensure the smooth output of the empowerment grid and safe backup.

Carrying out research on the innovative power of energy storage enterprises is conducive to strengthening the pace of construction of the energy storage industry ecosystem, strengthening the main innovation position of enterprises, capital and other innovation factors to enterprises, seeking better policy tools to support the energy storage industry bigger and stronger, and the improvement of the international competitiveness of energy storage enterprises.

Author: China Energy Storage Applications Association,CESA