Small wind turbine related policies are flawed

In the industry, wind turbines whose generating power is less than 10 kilowatts and 1 kilowatt or more are generally called small wind turbines. The development and application of small wind turbines in China started in the 1970s and has been developed to more than 30 years. Especially in recent years, the development speed is very fast, but with the advent of wind power in the cold winter of 2012, the small wind turbine industry has not been spared.

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The reporter learned from the Wind Energy Equipment Branch of China Agricultural Machinery Industry Association that since 2009, domestic small and medium-sized wind power markets have been on an upward trend. In 2009, the domestic market sold about 53,000 units, and in 2010 it was about 88,000 units, a 66% increase over 2009. 2011 was about 108,000 units, an increase of 22.7% over 2010. According to the statistics of the General Administration of Customs, in 2011, small and medium-sized wind turbines were exported to 106 countries and regions in the world, and the export volume was about 15,800 units. The export volume reached more than 24.9 million US dollars (equivalent to approximately 157 million yuan). The year increased by 30.7%.

In 2012, due to the sluggish domestic market, in the past, the project “Power Transmission to the Countryside” had off-grid or grid-connected construction projects in remote areas without electricity and in areas where the power grid could not reach the country. In 2012, only Inner Mongolia’s remote areas did not exist. The development of such projects has been continuously maintained in the power grids; after the State Grid built a batch of distributed microgrids in 2011, it will have no construction tasks until 2012; the scenery complementary streetlight projects will also be reduced accordingly.

At present, the situation of small wind turbines is ambiguous. From the perspective of industry, it belongs to wind power in new energy, but in terms of application fields, it is completely different from two fields in large wind turbine power generation. The former is off-grid and many It is used in wind-solar hybrid street lighting systems, energy saving reconstruction of urban bright projects, unattended differential transmission and microwave stations, power supply for traffic signal systems, remote pastoral areas with inconvenient traffic, offshore oil platforms, seawater desalination systems, and other life, municipalities, agriculture, etc. Automated construction, while the application of large wind turbines is only a single field, but simply after the power generation and grid.

Relevant experts believe that the current status of small-scale wind power industry is incomparable with the scale of large wind power and photovoltaic industries. China's medium and small wind power equipment manufacturing enterprises are mostly small and medium-sized enterprises, which are small in scale and low in innovation capacity, and the related industries are not well-supported and concentrated. The degree of difference, industrialization, and informatization are low, and there is not yet an influential industrial cluster. Social awareness is not high. Under the current policy conditions and market rules, the small and medium-sized wind energy industry is marginalized in the country's emerging industries. Compared with large-scale wind power and photovoltaic industry. Therefore, in the industry, status is not given due attention.

The installed capacity of wind power in the “12th Five-Year Plan” does not cover small wind turbines, which is one of the reasons why the development of small wind turbines has not received attention.

Small wind power policy has flaws

The giant company does not seem interested in small wind turbines. Apart from the fact that the domestic market is small, the amount of profit is limited, and there are differences in manufacturing technology, there is also an important reason for the lack of supporting policies. Compared with foreign countries, there is still a considerable gap between China's support policies for small wind turbines.

Due to the different application fields of small-scale wind turbines, it is not available to the state's wind power enterprises to subsidize small wind turbines, and the Provisional Measures for the Management of Special Funds for Industrialization of Wind Power Equipment issued by the Ministry of Finance in 2008 stipulates only 1,500 kilowatts. (More inclusive) The wind turbines have subsidy, and the subsidy policy was cancelled in February 2011. This completely avoids small wind turbines with a standard of 1-10 kw.

With the implementation of our country’s rural economic policies, the majority of farmers and herdsmen have increased their investment in crop farming. Some farmers have also contracted barren hills, barren slopes, and barren land. These areas are beyond the reach of power grids, so many herdsmen The farmers need to use small wind turbines, and many fishermen are now installing small wind turbines on fishing boats.

However, as a small fan for agricultural use, there is still no preferential treatment for agricultural machinery. For example, farm machinery products are charged at 13% VAT, while agricultural fans are charged at 17%, and the pressure on small wind turbine manufacturers has not been alleviated.

China aspires to establish an energy-saving and environment-friendly society. According to industry insiders, small wind power is energy-saving and environmentally friendly, unlike wind power, which has strict requirements on natural conditions, and has wide application and good market prospects. Relevant departments should timely launch relevant incentive policies, regulations and systems to better promote the healthy development of small-scale wind power equipment companies.