Liaoning's Chaoyang district government has recently issued the "15th Five-Year Plan Outline for Chaoyang City's National Economic and Social Development." The outline includes multiple provisions for the development of the energy storage industry, construction of energy storage projects, and the growth of the new energy sector.

Hydropower and Grid-Scale Storage Targets

In terms of power projects, the plan proposes accelerating the construction of the Chaoyang Pumped Storage Power Station, pushing for the commencement of the Yanshanhu Pumped Storage Power Station, and planning for projects like Jianping Wukechao. A 900-megawatt (MW) energy storage station project is targeted for completion and grid connection during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. By 2030, the city's total installed clean energy capacity is expected to reach 20 gigawatts (GW). The plan calls for expediting the main construction of the Chaoyang Pumped Storage station, aiming for its first unit to begin commercial operation by 2029. It also aims to advance preliminary work on the Yanshanhu project, with a target for approval and construction start by 2027. Small and medium-sized pumped storage projects will be planned based on local conditions.

New-Type Energy Storage and Industrial Integration

The construction of new-type energy storage stations is a key focus. The plan promotes an integrated "wind-solar + storage" development model and innovates the "shared storage" business model. It aims to build a diversified new-type energy storage system primarily based on flywheel and electrochemical storage technologies. Grid-side energy storage will be deployed strategically at key substation nodes, with ongoing construction in areas including Beipiao City, Chaoyang County, Kazuo County, Lingyuan City, and Longcheng District. For user-side storage, diversified development is supported, allowing new energy generators and power consumers to choose self-built, co-built, or leased independent shared storage facilities based on actual needs. The plan also explores innovations in vanadium redox flow (VRFB) and compressed air energy storage (CAES) technologies, and seeks to integrate "storage + ecological restoration" pathways to create demonstration bases with combined benefits. High energy-consuming projects, such as computing centers, are encouraged to adopt green power direct connections or market-based power trading to increase green power consumption, and to explore "computing-power coordination" technologies. Economic development zones are targeted to build "green power + storage + microgrid + load management" systems for low-carbon campus energy management, creating zero-carbon industrial parks.

Grid Flexibility and Infrastructure Enhancement

To enhance power system flexibility and regulation, the plan continues to promote coal power flexibility retrofits. It includes the construction and expansion of 500kV substations, reinforcement of 220kV and lower voltage grid infrastructure, and coordination of physical infrastructure with smart dispatch systems for multi-level grid resource coordination. The large-scale deployment of new-type storage and the Chaoyang Pumped Storage station will be accelerated to boost the system's peak-shaving and frequency-regulation capabilities. A "source-grid-load-storage" coordinated operation system will be built more quickly. The layout of new energy infrastructure will be accelerated, including pilot construction of hydrogen refueling and methanol fueling stations in key industrial parks, transport hubs, and logistics parks. The public charging network in urban areas, townships, and transport hubs will be improved, supporting the construction of integrated "solar + storage + charging" stations at large logistics and industrial parks.

Industrial Clusters and Manufacturing

Along two primary industrial chains—new energy (including comprehensive development of wind, solar, biomass, and pumped storage) and power equipment (including photovoltaic, wind power, transmission, and new-type storage equipment)—the plan aims to build a 20-billion-yuan clean energy industry base. For future industries (including the metaverse, brain-computer interfaces, quantum information, humanoid robots, generative AI, biomanufacturing, future displays, future networks, and new-type storage), it will selectively invest. R&D centers will be established for clean energy integration, hydrogen fuel cell vehicle technology, vanadium electrolyte and storage battery technology, and the broader energy storage industry, providing technological support for a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient new energy system. The plan will focus on attracting leading domestic wind power and energy storage equipment component manufacturers to build a technologically advanced and competitive full-industry-chain system, achieving significantly higher local content and creating an advanced manufacturing base for wind power and storage equipment. The energy storage equipment manufacturing industry will be nurtured and expanded. The plan accelerates the construction of lithium-ion, sodium-ion, vanadium redox flow, and drone solid-state battery projects, continuously extending upstream and downstream industrial chains to strongly support local storage stations and the drone manufacturing industry. Chaoyang County and Kazuo County are supported in leveraging their vanadium-titanium resource advantages to actively engage with enterprises and develop the vanadium redox flow battery industry. Physical storage technology manufacturing, including compressed air, flywheel, and electromagnetic storage, will be developed, with exploration of cascade utilization and recycling systems for storage equipment, aiming to build a production base for storage equipment. The industrialization of vanadium electrolyte and VRFB storage will be accelerated. Following the "vanadium-titanium raw materials—high-end materials—terminal applications" main line, the plan focuses on expanding large-scale applications of vanadium in high-end steel and storage batteries, upgrading vanadium-titanium resources from "raw material export" to "material supply plus scenario service," creating a distinctive regional vanadium-titanium industry label. The synergistic development of the photovoltaic and storage equipment manufacturing industries will be strengthened, supporting enterprises in building "component plus storage" system solutions for major base construction, zero-carbon campuses, and campus microgrids, and pushing the manufacturing chain towards system integration and higher value-added segments.

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