Gao Jifan, National People's Congress representative and Chairman of Tainergy Renewable Energy: Unified admission standards and trading mechanisms promote the healthy development of distributed photovoltaics.

In 2026, which marks the beginning of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan," Gao Jifan, a national People's Congress deputy and chairman of Tianhe Solar, went deep into the grassroots and listened widely to opinions, doing thorough "homework" for the conference. He closely focused on issues such as technological innovation, protection of intellectual property rights, the ongoing "anti-inner loop" in the photovoltaic industry, and the vigorous development of new energy storage, proposing multiple suggestions. With the further implementation of the "Notice on Deepening Market-Oriented Reform of New Energy On-grid Electricity Prices to Promote High-Quality Development of New Energy," the aggregation of distributed photovoltaics in the form of virtual power plants entering the market has become an inevitable trend. Gao Jifan suggested further perfecting relevant mechanisms to promote the healthy development of distributed photovoltaics. "It is necessary to unify access standards and trading mechanisms, and remove institutional bottlenecks for aggregation in the market." Gao Jifan suggested clearly defining the status of diverse entities and differentiation rules, establishing a national unified access standard, clarifying that household photovoltaics can be represented by qualified aggregators in the form of virtual power plants to participate in the medium- to long-term, spot, and ancillary service markets. Adding a special clause for "distributed photovoltaic aggregation trading" under the existing rules, simplifying measurement, settling on a monthly basis, conducting annual deviation assessments, allowing aggregators to uniformly bear deviation responsibilities, and centralizing the issuance of green certificates for aggregation projects.