During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China Southern Power Grid will invest 20 billion yuan in innovation funds to increase technology research in new energy storage and other fields

China Energy Storage Network News: Recently, China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. signed an agreement with the National Natural Science Foundation of China to join the National Natural Science Foundation Innovation Development Joint Fund to jointly support basic forward-looking research in the field of new power systems.

According to the agreement, from 2022 to 2024, the State Grid Corporation of China will invest 40 million yuan each year and the National Natural Science Foundation of China will invest 10 million yuan each year. In three years, the two parties will invest a total of 150 million yuan to carry out basic research and applied basic research on related technical directions such as path optimization and stability mechanism in the field of new power systems, digital power grids, new energy storage, and electric carbon certification.

The National Natural Science Foundation of China is a public institution that manages the National Natural Science Foundation of China. It is managed by the Ministry of Science and Technology and is responsible for the organization and implementation of funding plans, project setting and review, project establishment, supervision, etc. The National Natural Science Foundation of China focuses on basic, cutting-edge, and talent, and takes the cultivation of innovative talents and teams as its important mission and the enhancement of my country's original innovation capabilities as its important responsibility. Over the past 30 years, it has made great achievements in promoting the development of basic research in natural sciences in my country, promoting the construction of basic disciplines, and discovering and cultivating outstanding scientific and technological talents.

Lin Zhibo, General Manager of the Innovation Management Department of China Southern Power Grid, said that joining the National Natural Science Foundation Enterprise Innovation Development Joint Fund is an important measure for China Southern Power Grid to implement the National Innovation-Driven Development Strategy Outline and the "Several Opinions of the State Council on Comprehensively Strengthening Basic Scientific Research" and accelerate the creation of national strategic scientific and technological forces. Through the Enterprise Innovation Development Joint Fund, focusing on the urgent needs of the development of the energy industry, giving full play to the role of enterprises as innovation subjects, and taking advantage of the national basic research platform, we will accelerate the solution of basic and forward-looking problems in the construction of new power systems, promote the efficient connection between basic research and applied research, and support the improvement of national source innovation capabilities.

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the State Grid Corporation of China expects to invest more than 20 billion yuan in innovation project funds, increase technical research in the fields of new power systems, digital power grids, new energy storage, smart energy, advanced communications and information, energy and transportation network coordination, power Internet of Things, and power artificial intelligence. At the same time, relying on major innovation cooperation channels such as the National Natural Science Foundation Enterprise Innovation Development Joint Fund, Guangdong Province's "Offshore Wind Power" Provincial Enterprise Joint Fund, the Energy Industry Intellectual Property Operation Center, the "Future Grid Plan" project, and the "Double Creation" platform, we will actively build an open and shared innovation ecosystem to effectively play the role of the company's national team positioning, platform enterprise, and value chain integrator in the field of innovation.

Southern Media Omnimedia Reporter Huang Yaxi Correspondent Xie Minglei Lu Yuefeng