The plan proposes six major actions to promote the high-quality development of the energy storage manufacturing industry, focusing on six aspects: technological innovation, orderly development of industries, bottom line of industrial chain security/energy conservation and carbon reduction/digitization, demonstration applications, standards/intellectual property/public innovation platform ecosystem, and building global influence. The core points are as follows:

1. Innovation Action for New Energy Storage Technologies: Focusing on new energy storage technologies such as lithium batteries/flow batteries, system integration and management, and system safety, including diversified new energy storage body technologies, efficient integration and intelligent regulation technologies, and multi-dimensional safety technologies throughout the entire life cycle.

2. Action to promote coordinated development of industries: Focus on preventing blind and disorderly expansion and development of industries, orderly expansion and matching effective demand, key supporting mineral resource development guarantee, supporting cooperation between upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, including scientifically planning industrial layout, guiding and optimizing supply and demand relationships, strengthening resource guarantee and utilization, and cultivating high-quality industrial enterprises.

3. Industrial transformation and upgrading development action: Focus on the intrinsic safety of production, supply, marketing, and utilization, the establishment of energy consumption and carbon emission rules and global integration, and the intelligence of production and integration processes, including improving safety production capacity, adhering to green and low-carbon development, and enhancing the level of intelligent manufacturing.

4. Demonstration application scenario expansion action: Focus on demonstration applications on the power supply side, grid side, and user side, including promoting energy storage applications on the power supply and grid side, and expanding diversified applications of energy storage on the user side.

5. Action to improve the industrial ecosystem: Focus on standard setting, intellectual property protection, and public research/service platform construction, including improving the support level of the standard system, strengthening the application of intellectual property protection, and enhancing the construction of innovative service platforms.

6. Action to enhance trade and investment cooperation: Focus on business exports, building global influence and attractiveness, global layout, including introducing, consolidating and expanding export advantages, supporting high-quality "imports", and promoting high-level "going global".

Long term energy storage technology for flow batteries is highly encouraged

  Flow batteries have the characteristics of high safety, long service life, and flexible deployment on a large scale. They can efficiently store large-scale energy and are particularly suitable for the consumption and balanced scheduling of renewable energy such as wind and solar power. In addition, the marginal cost of flow batteries is relatively low, and due to their separable battery stack and electrolyte design, they can achieve convenient maintenance and upgrades.

  The plan points out to promote the engineering and application technology research and development of flow batteries for long-term energy storage and other multi time scales. The plan proposes specific encouragement directions from the key technologies and system levels of flow batteries:

1. Key technical aspects: Carry out technological breakthroughs in key materials such as flow battery stacks, bipolar plates, electrolytes, and ion exchange membranes.

2. At the battery system level: Improve the energy efficiency, system reliability, and full lifecycle economy of flow batteries.

Sutong continues to layout iron-based liquid flow batteries for development

  Facing the prospects of new power system construction and long-term energy storage, and combining the low-cost/high safety advantages of iron-based flow batteries, Sotong Development focuses on promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements with universities, adhering to the leadership of scientific and technological innovation, cultivating new quality productivity, and improving the quality of listed companies. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary Sotong New Energy, Sotong has established cooperation with Beijing University of Chemical Technology to jointly promote the industrialization of all iron flow batteries.

  At present, the research team of the project is exploring the application of key materials such as ion exchange membranes, developing ion exchange membranes that are more suitable for electrolyte systems, and laying the foundation for the development of the next generation of fuel cells. In addition, Sotong New Energy has reached an agreement with the technology achievement transformation platform of Beijing University of Chemical Technology on the establishment of a joint venture company, and both parties are steadily advancing the necessary procedural work for the joint venture company to initiate.