China Renewable Energy Scale-Up Program Phase II

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The development objective of the Second Phase of Renewable Energy Scaling-Up Program Project for China is to support the ambitious renewable energy scale-up program in China with a focus on efficiency improvement and reduction of incremental costs. There are five components to the project. The first component of the project is policy support. This will support developing and implementing Renewable Energy (RE) legislation and policies to achieve cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and smooth grid integration. The second component of the project is grid integration/access and technical design. This component will consist of targeted studies to ensure improved grid integration for large-scale grid-connected RE and grid access for distributed RE; and strategic and optimal deployment of key RE technologies to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. The third component of the project is technology improvement. Under this component the technology improvements will include, but not limited to: a) increasing efficiency of existing wind farms; b) improving quality and reliability and reducing costs of off-shore wind turbine technologies; c) increasing efficiency of existing large-scale grid connected solar Photovoltaic (PV) farms; and d) possibly improving Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) domestic manufacturing capacity. The fourth component of the project is pilot demonstration. This component will primarily provide technical assistance on twinning with selected international successful cities, the concept framework of new energy cities, planning, business and financing models, technical design, and policies for distributed generation applications in pilot new energy cities. The fifth component of the project is capacity building and investment support, and project management. This component will: build capacity of government officials and staff at national level and at pilot provincial/municipal levels; help operationalize the China RE training center to be established by developing RE curriculums and training the trainers; and support investors by building innovative RE investment pipelines, including sharing the cost of the owner's engineer for China's first CSP investment under the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) inner Mongolia CSP project.