① The National Development and Reform Commission announced the “Electricity Market Supervision Measures” to increase electricity trading companies, energy storage companies, virtual power plants, and load aggregators. ② CITIC Construction Investment Zhu Yue believes that charging pile operators are natural load aggregators. Load aggregators can integrate user resources, participate in the electricity market, respond to grid needs, and operate traditional businesses such as wholesale and retail of electricity.
The National Development and Reform Commission announced the “Electricity Market Supervision Measures” (hereinafter referred to as the “Measures”), which will take effect on June 1, 2024. According to the website of the National Development and Reform Commission, a relevant person in charge of the National Energy Administration said in response to reporters' questions about the “Measures” that the current revision clearly targets electricity market members such as power trading entities, power market operators, and power grid companies providing transmission and distribution services. Electricity traders will increase electricity sales companies, energy storage companies, virtual power plants, and load aggregators.
In the context of demand response development, load aggregators are emerging service enterprises formed by power sales companies registered through demand response management platforms. They are one of the participants in demand-side response. They can aggregate demand response resources of 3,000 kilowatts or more. Their main responsibility is to act as intermediary agents to provide load curves and other information of polymerized power users to power trading centers, participate in demand response bidding transactions, and sign and execute various transaction contracts. Zhu Yue of CITIC Construction Investment believes that charging pile operators are natural load aggregators. Load aggregators can integrate user resources, participate in the electricity market, respond to grid needs, and operate traditional businesses such as wholesale and retail of electricity.
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