A New Power System can ensure energy security by efficiently utilizing demand-side resources and distributed energy, strengthening local self-balancing capacity, and achieving coordinated development between self-balancing units like microgrids and the bulk power system. This report by the China Energy Research Society (CERS) identified several challenges facing this coordination, including unclear impact of the application and operation of microgrids on the bulk power grid, additional studies needed regarding the flexibility characteristics of the self-balancing units, and insufficiencies in relevant policy support and market mechanisms to guide the healthy development of microgrids. This report further analyzes typical application scenarios and operational models of microgrids, proposes key measures for the coordinated development of microgrids and the bulk grid, and provides corresponding recommendations. NRDC supported the China Energy Research Society and the China Electricity Council in hosting the China Power Sector Low-Carbon Transition Annual Forum 2024, where CERS released this report. 

The report is only available in Chinese.