China sets 'capacity price' floor for grid-scale storage, tying payments to coal benchmarks

Beijing's new rule lets standalone storage earn fixed-cost payments for availability, not energy delivered.From ESS News China's top economic planner and energy regulator have moved to formalise a "capacity price" for standalone, grid-side energy storage, widening a mechanism originally designed for coal plants and offering investors a clearer route to recovering fixed costs. In a joint notice issued on January 30 2026, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the National Energy Administration (NEA) said qualified standalone new-type storage projects that support system reliability ...

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