Offshore Wind Worldwide 2022 edition - Flipbook - Page 34
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Hogan Lovells
China
Starting from 2019, offshore wind power
projects and their developers are selected by
the Local NEAs through a competitive
procedure (Competitive Allocation Scheme),
pursuant to the Administrative Guidance for
Competitive Allocation of Wind Power
Projects (Trial) published by the NEA on 18
May 2018 (Competitive Allocation
Guidance). The Competitive Allocation
Scheme applies to all centralised onshore
and offshore wind power projects (it does not
apply to distributed projects). Each Local
NEA adopts its own rules, issued pursuant to
the Competitive Allocation Guidance. Some
provinces have specific competitive rules for
offshore projects, while other provinces have
issued one single set of rules covering both
onshore and offshore projects. At the time of
writing, among the coastal provinces/cities
where the offshore wind power projects are
mainly located in China, Shanghai
Municipality, Guangdong Province,
Shandong Province, Zhejiang Province,
Guangxi Province, Jiangsu Province, Fujian
Province and Dalian city have already
published their local Competitive Allocation
Schemes for offshore wind power projects,
either through specific rules for offshore
projects or a single set of rules covering both
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onshore and offshore projects.7 It is worth
noting that the Competitive Allocation
Scheme of Jiangsu Province only applies for
Year 2021. Generally speaking, the
Competitive Allocation Guidance divides
projects in two categories:
1.projects with developer already identified
(Pre-identified Developer Projects): these
are projects for which a developer has
entered into a wind power development
agreement (Development Agreement)
with the local government and completed
the Preliminary Works. The Local NEA
evaluates these projects based on certain
parameters and assigns them a score. The
projects with a high score are included
with priority in the Construction Plan of
the province. There is no additional
bidding procedure to determine the
developers of those projects; they are
assigned to the entity that carried out the
Preliminary Works; and
2.projects with no developer identified (Non
Pre-identified Developer Projects): these
are projects for which the Local NEA and
local government themselves have
organised and completed the Preliminary
Measures for Shanghai Competitive Allocation for Wind Power Projects’, published on 25 December 2018 by Shanghai Provincial
Development and Reform Commission;
‘Measures of Guangdong Provincial Energy Administration for Guangdong Competitive Allocation for Offshore Wind Power Projects (for
trial implementation)’, published on 3 December 2018 by Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission;
‘Measures for Shandong Competitive Allocation for Offshore Wind Power Projects’, published on 17 December 2019 by Shandong
Provincial Development and Reform Commission and Shandong Provincial Energy Administration;
‘Measures for Zhejiang Competitive Allocation for Offshore Wind Power Projects’, published on 18 September 2019 by Zhejiang Provincial
Development and Reform Commission and Zhejiang Provincial Energy Administration;
‘Measures for Fujian Offshore Wind Power Projects (for trial implementation)’, published on 25 December 2019 by Fujian Provincial
Development and Reform Commission;
‘Interim Measures for Dalian Offshore Wind Power Projects’, published on 15 November 2019 by Dalian Provincial Development and
Reform Commission;
‘Detailed Working Rules for Competitive Allocation of Offshore Wind Power Projects in Jiangsu Province in 2021’, published on 4
November 2021 by Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission; and ‘Measures for Guangxi Competitive Allocation for
Offshore Wind Power Projects (Draft for Recommendation)’, published on 3 February 2021 by Guangxi Provincial Development and
Reform Commission and Guangxi Provincial Energy Administration.