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Data on utilities—electricity, water, steam, and heat—is scattered across multiple departments in many parks; metering equipment at tenant enterprises remains incomplete; carbon emission monitoring is discontinuous, and accounting practices are nonstandard. According to Yicai, numerous enterprises hesitate to report core production and operational data, fearing disclosure of commercial costs. Xie QiuYe, former President of the Electric Power Planning & Engineering Institute, emphasized that establishing unified data reporting and evaluation criteria—along with supporting policies—is a critical issue demanding urgent resolution. Document No. 910 explicitly requires parks to possess foundational capabilities in energy consumption and carbon emission statistics, accounting, measurement, and monitoring. A hard requirement for the second batch of applications mandates completion of carbon inventories covering 2023–2025, conducted per ISO 14064-1 standards and certified by CNAS-accredited institutions. As reported by Business New Knowledge, energy-carbon management platforms must support data granularity of ≤15 minutes, and emission reductions must be validated through closed-loop comparison against baseline-year data. Standards for refined operations include: 100% integration of carbon emission data into the park’s intelligent platform, enabling real-time monitoring, anomaly alerts, and remote control; carbon footprint data supporting product-level labeling certification compliant with international regulations such as the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). The Datong Economic & Technological Development Zone’s zero-carbon park special plan even stipulates blockchain-based immutability for carbon footprint data and one-click generation of carbon footprint reports conforming to the EU’s new Battery Regulation. According to East Money, this marks a pivotal step from ‘data blind spots’ to ‘data assets’. II. Green Electricity Consumption & Dispatching—Installing PV Does Not Equal Using Green Power This is the most central operational challenge—and the most frequently overlooked capability—in zero-carbon parks. Key metrics in Document No. 910: For parks with annual comprehensive energy consumption between 200,000 and 1 million tons of standard coal equivalent, carbon emissions per unit of energy consumption must be ≤0.2 tons CO₂/ton standard coal; for parks exceeding 1 million tons, the limit is ≤0.3 tons. According to China Securities Journal, achieving these targets requires high-energy-consumption parks to source at least 70% of their electricity from green sources—with direct green power supply constituting no less than 50%. Reality, however, presents a mismatch: solar generation peaks at midday, while wind output surges at night—both misaligned with factories’ stable, round-the-clock electricity demand curves. As Zhang Juntao, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Energy Conservation Association, bluntly stated in China News Weekly, wind and solar generation profiles rarely match industrial load curves. Once renewable penetration exceeds 25%, system marginal costs rise exponentially—not because more green power is cheaper, but because increasingly sophisticated dispatching becomes indispensable. Refined operations must resolve three issues: ① Source-load matching for direct green power supply (per NDRC Energy Document [2026] No. 688, multi-user direct green power supply models are exempted from power business licensing); ② Economically optimal balancing between surplus power sales and deficit power procurement; ③ Demand-side flexible scheduling—Yang Lei, Deputy Director of Peking University’s Institute of Energy Research, cited the Xixia County Mushroom Industrial Park in Henan Province as an example: users flexibly adjust production timing according to power supply conditions, reducing reliance on costly energy storage and effectively lowering overall system costs. As reported by Yicai, “Demand-side flexibility is often what truly enhances renewable energy absorption capacity.” Benchmark performance: Ordos Zero-Carbon Industrial Park achieves 80% direct green power supply + 20% green power trading, cutting electricity cost per kWh by ¥0.15; enterprises in Dafeng Port Economic & Technological Development Zone, Yancheng, reduce carbon emissions from purchased electricity by over 75%, with renewable energy absorption rates exceeding 95%. Per Business New Knowledge, these figures reflect actual operational results—not aspirational planning targets. III. Precise Energy Storage Dispatching—Installing Storage Does Not Guarantee Profitability

The Era of Refined Operations Has Arrived! Nenghuanbao Invited to Attend the 8th New Energy Power Station Operation and After-Sales Service Market Seminar

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