A few days ago, Zhang Guobao, director of the National Energy Administration, stated at the national rural power grid transformation and upgrading work conference that from this year to 2012, a three-year new round of rural power grid upgrading will be launched, and this year the country will invest 12 billion yuan in capital. According to the calculation of the proportion of investment in reconstruction of rural power grids since 1998, the scale of investment in rural power grid reconstruction will exceed 200 billion yuan in the next three years.
The State Grid Corporation’s UHV DC test base has recently commenced construction in Zhongguancun, Beijing. When the base is completed, it will meet the scientific research needs of the UHV DC transmission project construction and provide good conditions for domestic companies to seize the commanding heights in the world of power science and technology.