At the beginning of 2025, two important policies related to new energy investment will be introduced, namely the Notice of the National Energy Administration on Issuing the Management Measures for the Development and Construction of Distributed Photovoltaic Power Generation (National Energy Development and New Energy Regulation [2025] No. 7, hereinafter referred to as the Management Measures), and the Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration jointly issuing the Market oriented Reform of New Energy Grid Prices to Promote High quality Development of New Energy (Development and Reform Commission Price [2025] No. 136, hereinafter referred to as the Document 136), resulting in two key nodes for distributed photovoltaic investment projects: "430" and "531", corresponding to the policy window periods of the Management Measures and Document 136, respectively.

Node on April 30th: Refers to distributed photovoltaic projects that have completed filing or grid connection before April 30th, 2025. They can enjoy the filing process, consumption conditions, and subsidy models under the original policy framework. For example, industrial and commercial projects can also be fully connected to the grid and enjoy stable minimum electricity prices. After that, grid connected projects will face stricter filing management, self use ratio requirements, and restrictions on surplus electricity grid connection.

Node on May 31st: The guaranteed minimum electricity price for grid connection is gone, and the revenue is directly linked to the electricity spot market. The grid connection price is formed through market transactions, and it also needs to share the costs of new energy consumption such as peak shaving and frequency regulation. This means that the stable revenue model of newly added distributed photovoltaics is completely terminated.

According to industry insiders' analysis, under the policy before 430, a 10MW industrial and commercial distributed photovoltaic grid connected project can maintain an IRR (internal rate of return) of over 8%. After the 531 new policy, the IRR may be directly cut to 4%. In this situation, investors in distributed photovoltaics are competing for project timelines and progress, aiming to achieve grid connection before the April 30th deadline and lock in investment returns.

Time is tight, the task is heavy, and the responsibility is great! Ankerui fully mobilized company resources, cooperated with local system distributors, and worked against time to successfully connect 27 distributed photovoltaic projects to the grid within a week before the 430 node, with a grid connected capacity of over 150MW.

Good news keeps coming, the Nine Palace Grid can't even fit in!

The Acrel-1000DP distributed photovoltaic solution integrates real-time monitoring, intelligent prediction, data security, adjustability and controllability, and upload scheduling according to the grid connection requirements of various power grid departments, meeting the grid connection requirements of various regions. This is thanks to Ankerui's extensive project experience and technical expertise accumulated over the years, helping customers accurately connect to the grid and lock in investment returns in advance.

Acrel-1000DP Distributed Photovoltaic Monitoring System Topology Structure

For distributed photovoltaic projects that have not caught up with nodes 430 and 531, there is no need to worry. Even without policy support, scientific construction and management methods can help investors obtain good returns. After the new policy, projects connected to the grid have a higher proportion of spontaneous self use requirements, and surplus electricity is not connected to the grid or enters the electricity spot market. This does not mean that the investment income of photovoltaics will definitely decrease. According to the new policy requirements, making good use of the "source grid load storage and charging integration" construction mode, combined with an efficient management platform, will provide investors with better returns.

AcrelEMS 3.0 intelligent energy management platform monitors the real-time operation status of distributed photovoltaic, energy storage systems, charging facilities, and various AC/DC loads, intelligently predicts the power generation/consumption, generates optimized scheduling strategies, helps users fully absorb photovoltaic power generation, meets the requirements of spontaneous self use ratio, and has multiple management strategies such as anti backflow, peak valley arbitrage, demand reduction, and flexible expansion. In the electricity spot market, it can also help managers connect with virtual power plants and obtain higher returns through demand response and other means. At the same time, the platform also has functions such as carbon asset management and intelligent operation and maintenance, helping users improve the economic, safe energy management, and intelligent operation and maintenance level of microgrids.

AcrelEMS 3.0 Smart Energy Management Platform Functional Architecture

The software can be deployed on public or private clouds, as well as locally, and meets the requirements of Level 3 certification for information security protection, catering to different deployment needs of users. The AcrelEMS 3.0 platform, in conjunction with the ACCU-100 microgrid coordination controller or the local microgrid energy management system Acrel-2000MG, can achieve "cloud edge collaboration" management, helping users reduce the construction cost of the integrated system of source grid load storage and charging, and improve operational reliability and maintenance management efficiency.

AcrelEMS 3.0 Smart Energy Management Platform