State Grid: Photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects connect 38,000 power stations with a total capacity of 20.46 GW

Recently, data showed that from 2015 to date, State Grid has completed a total investment of 4 billion yuan in supporting power grids, connected 20.46 gigawatts of photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects, connected 38,000 power stations, and benefited 2.88 million poor households.

In recent years, the State Grid has improved the efficiency of revenue settlement by optimizing the settlement process, innovating service measures such as issuing electricity sales invoices on behalf of others and opening up payment channels. In 2019, the electricity bill was settled at 6.1 billion yuan, and 5 billion yuan of state subsidies were transferred. According to the arrangements of the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office, the equipment-level operation data of village-level photovoltaic poverty alleviation power stations was connected, and 38,000 power stations have been connected. Using Internet technologies such as big data and cloud computing, models such as accurate fault analysis and operation efficiency analysis are constructed to provide platform support for the development of the national photovoltaic poverty alleviation industry and government supervision.

Since 2015, various units of the State Grid have successively dispatched 1,293 village work teams with 4,371 people/times and 977 village first secretaries/times, and have undertaken the task of supporting 1,952 poverty alleviation points of local governments at all levels, and have helped 1,554 poverty alleviation points out of poverty, leading 102,800 poor households and 330,000 poor people out of poverty. Hubei Shennongjia Forest District, Zigui County and Qinghai Maduo County, which were assisted by the State Grid, have been lifted out of poverty, and all the "four counties and one district" targeted for poverty alleviation have been lifted out of poverty.

In 2019, 134 million yuan was invested in assistance funds, 758 assistance projects such as industrial poverty alleviation, people's livelihood improvement, education and medical care were implemented, 355 infrastructure facilities were improved, 102 photovoltaic poverty alleviation power stations were donated and built, 68,200 poor households, technicians and poverty alleviation cadres were trained per time, and 8,065 poor households were helped to find jobs.

In 2019, the State Grid Corporation of China completed the task of reducing the average electricity price for general industrial and commercial enterprises by another 10%; the target of new energy utilization rate was achieved one year ahead of schedule, reaching more than 95%; a total of 7.92 million households in the northern region achieved clean heating by replacing coal with electricity; and a new round of rural power grid transformation and upgrading tasks determined by the national plan were completed one year ahead of schedule.