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Does China's Southern Power Grid have a digital power network?

"China Southern Power Grid also has two major pilot projects on power trading in Guangdong and Yunnan provinces, which provide both challenges and opportunities for the country's in-depth digitalization of its power networks," he added.

Does China have a power grid?

China has two major national power generation and transmission utilities -- State Grid Corp of China and China Southern Power Grid. State Grid covers about 26 provinces in eastern, central and northern regions, while the latter covers five provinces in southern China.

Will a digital power grid help China achieve a carbon peak?

A digital power grid will better facilitate the consumption of power increasingly produced by clean energy while further facilitating China's ambition to achieve a carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, he said.

How to emancipate the grid from reliance on coal?

To emancipate the grid from its reliance on coal and achieve carbon neutrality, radical changes to the generation and transmission facilities are planned. This includes the expansion of solar and wind plants, as well as a massive expansion of the hydropower fleet that will add more than 32 GW of installed hydropower capacity.

When did China's Southern regional power market start?

China's southern regional power market started trial operations in the week of July 18. Grid operator China Southern Power Grid said on its social media platform that the launch marked the first implementation of the national power market system in the southern provinces.

Will the southern regional power market become a uniform platform?

The southern regional power market is expected to become a uniform platform for cross-regional, cross-provincial and intra-provincial power transactions by 2023, enabling more varieties and higher frequency of power transactions, the company said.