Research Results of the Huairou Lab Landing Among National Energy Administration's First Units (Sets) of Major Technical Equipment in the Energy Sector

The National Energy Administration has recently released the Third Batch of First Units (Sets) of Major Technical Equipment (Projects) in the Energy Sector in 2022. The new high-efficiency and flexible coal-fired generation unit developed by Huairou Laboratory successfully landed among the list.

Established for the purpose of tackling major national scientific research tasks, the research team gives full play to the advantages of the new system for mobilizing the resources nationwide and is composed of experts from renowned universities, scientific research institutions and enterprises. The team, featuring scientific research collaboration and innovation, strives to make breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields of China's energy sector. It has developed a new type of unit by focusing on the flexible operation of coal-fired generation units, which may serve as the main unit for new thermal plants and new capacities of installed plants in the future. This enables peak and frequency regulation capacity and rotational inertia for the power grid and hence provides support for the construction of a new power system with new energy as the main body.

The selection of the lab's research results into the National Energy Administration's first units (sets) of major technical equipment represents phased progress of the team's scientific researches. In the future, HRL research teams will further focus on and condense its theoretical achievements in key and core technologies and promote industrial reforms, with a view to making due and greater contributions to high-level sci-tech self-reliance of the energy sector, achieving the "dual carbon" goal, and building an energy superpower.