China's National Development and Reform Commission and National Energy Administration have jointly issued a directive to launch a specialized campaign aimed at improving power supply quality. The initiative brings together local government agencies, grid operators, industrial consumers, and industry associations to address new requirements arising from traditional industry upgrades, emerging sector expansion, and future industry planning.
This power quality enhancement campaign represents a crucial measure to resolve constraints hindering the development of new quality productive forces. With accelerating technological revolution and industrial transformation, China's rapidly growing sectors—including chip manufacturing, biopharmaceuticals, precision machining, new energy vehicles, and computing facilities—along with digital and intelligent upgrades in traditional industries like petrochemicals, demonstrate high sensitivity to power quality. Minor disturbances can cause production equipment shutdowns, product scrap, or even production line damage.
The campaign focuses on addressing current challenges while meeting future development needs, promoting efficient government-enterprise collaboration mechanisms, significantly enhancing grid companies' high-level power supply capabilities, accelerating market-oriented service systems, and establishing a clear, coordinated, and precise power quality governance framework.
Key objectives include achieving comprehensive terminal monitoring for power quality-sensitive enterprises and substantially reducing the impact of voltage sags on production operations. Specific measures involve guiding local development reform departments and energy authorities to strengthen coordination and policy guidance, clarify responsibilities, and improve standards systems.
Grid companies are urged to enhance source prevention through grid structure optimization, improved line insulation, disaster resilience, and intelligent fault isolation to minimize consumer impact. Industrial consumers are encouraged to adopt proactive measures by installing uninterrupted power supplies (UPS), dynamic voltage restorers (DVR), and other equipment to improve production line tolerance to voltage fluctuations.
Industry associations and research institutions will leverage their expertise to establish power quality data sharing mechanisms, publish technical guidelines, and facilitate a shift from reactive repairs to proactive protection. The initiative also accelerates standard development for voltage sag monitoring and classification management while creating internationally competitive high-power-quality demonstration zones in key regions.
The three-year implementation period, targeting full task completion by 2028, aims to establish stronger, broader, and more responsive power supply capabilities to support high-quality development of new productive forces, providing secure and efficient energy support for economic and social advancement.
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