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On April 9, China Resources Wind Power (Lianzhou) Co., Ltd. issued a tender announcement for the EPC general contracting of the energy storage capacity expansion project supporting the 100MW expansion project of China Resources Qingyuan Lianzhou Fushan Wind Farm. The project is located in Xincun Village, Xingzi Town, Lianzhou City, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province. The scope of work for the EPC general contracting includes but is not limited to the survey, design, civil construction, installation, commissioning, and power transmission of the energy storage project; the procurement, transportation, storage, and testing of equipment and materials. Bidders are required to have at least one EPC or PC performance of a 5MWh or above electrochemical energy storage project from March 1, 2022, to the bid submission deadline (based on the contract signing date); or at least one performance in the design, construction, and equipment supply (must be LFP electrochemical energy storage system integration equipment, including at least battery prefabricated cabins, BMS, PCS, etc., with a cumulative supply of no less than 50MWh) of a 5MWh or above electrochemical energy storage project from March 1, 2022, to the bid submission deadline (based on the contract signing date) (which can be the design, construction, and equipment supply performance of different projects). For joint venture bids, each party of the joint venture should provide the performance corresponding to the division of labor in the joint venture agreement. The tender announcement for the EPC general contracting of the energy storage capacity expansion project supporting the 100MW expansion project of China Resources Qingyuan Lianzhou Fushan Wind Farm (Tender Announcement No. SZBGG2025040092) was issued by China Resources Shouzheng Tendering Co., Ltd., entrusted by the bid inviter, for the public tender of the EPC general contracting of the energy storage capacity expansion project supporting the 100MW expansion project of China Resources Qingyuan Lianzhou Fushan Wind Farm in the 23rd batch of tenders for the southern region of China Resources Power in 2025. I. Basic Information of the Project Bid Inviter: China Resources Wind Power (Lianzhou) Co., Ltd. Tendering Agency: China Resources Shouzheng Tendering Co., Ltd. Project Location: Xincun Village, Xingzi Town, Lianzhou City, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province; Project Scale: 100MW Project Funding Source: Self-raised Tender No.: S03058825GZ0004P1 Project Name: 100MW Expansion Project of China Resources Qingyuan Lianzhou Fushan Wind Farm Section Name: EPC General Contracting for Supporting Energy Storage Capacity Expansion Tender Content and Scope: The EPC general contracting for the 10MW/10MWh energy storage project supporting the expansion project of China Resources Qingyuan Lianzhou Fushan Wind Farm includes but is not limited to the survey, design, civil construction, installation, commissioning, and power transmission of the energy storage project; the procurement, transportation, storage, and testing of equipment and materials. Details are as follows: (1) Survey, preliminary design, construction drawing preparation, and as-built drawing preparation for the energy storage project. (2) Equipment procurement and installation engineering. Procurement and installation of all equipment and materials for this project, re-inspection upon arrival, sampling inspection of battery cells and cables, pre-installation testing and laboratory testing of equipment and materials, system commissioning, trial operation, defect elimination, training, acceptance, safety protection facilities "three simultaneous" and final delivery and commissioning, warranty, etc.); (3) Civil construction engineering of the project. Including but not limited to site leveling, fencing, and internal road materials procurement, re-inspection upon arrival, construction, and acceptance work for the entire energy storage area; cable trenches, equipment foundations, gravel flooring, internal roads, etc., materials procurement, re-inspection upon arrival, construction, and acceptance work for the civil construction engineering of the above-mentioned areas; (4) Interface, coordination, and joint commissioning with the project's booster station section and the first phase 10MW/10MWh energy storage system section; all risks during the construction process; setting and parameter calculation and setting for energy storage, fire protection and power grid filing, commissioning, and acceptance; power grid adaptability testing and verification. Fire protection and video surveillance for energy storage equipment. (5) Interface and commissioning with the first phase 10MW/10MWh energy storage system, including primary and secondary transformation of the first phase energy storage system, EMS system transformation, fire protection system access, and video surveillance system access; (6) Project completion (including all tests) acceptance coordination, handover, and quality assurance services during the warranty period; also including project defect elimination, material, spare parts, special tools, consumables, and related technical data handover, personnel training, etc. As an EPC general contracting project, regardless of whether mentioned in this tender document, all work contents related to the design, construction, commissioning, procurement, transportation, storage, completion and commissioning, project inspection, file acceptance, completion settlement, project acceptance, and overall completion acceptance of this project are within the scope of this section. For details, please refer to Volume V Technical Specifications and Requirements. Main Indicators: Delivery Date/Construction Period: Design Completion Date: May 15, 2025 Construction Start Date: May 20, 2025 Equipment Arrival Date: June 30, 2025 Equipment Installation and Commissioning: July 15, 2025 Official Operation: July 25, 2025 Network Access Test and Simulation Modeling Completion Date: September 20, 2025 Completion Date: September 30, 2025 The specific start date is subject to the written notice from Party A, and the total construction period remains unchanged. Note: For detailed content, please refer to the tender document, which shall prevail. II. Bidder Qualification and Capability Requirements 1. Qualification Requirements: 1) The bidder (including joint venture members) is a legally registered independent legal person or other organization within the territory of the People's Republic of China, with the right to independently enter into contracts. 2) The bidder has a Class A comprehensive qualification for power engineering design, or a Class B or above qualification for power industry engineering design, or a Class B or above qualification for new energy professional engineering design in the power industry; 3) The bidder has a Class III or above qualification for power engineering construction general contracting, and has a Class IV or above qualification for power facility installation, repair, and testing (installation and testing); 4) For joint venture bids, joint venture members should have the corresponding qualifications according to the joint venture agreement. 2. Performance Requirements: The bidder (including joint venture bids) must meet the following requirements according to the scope of work: 1) The bidder has at least one EPC or PC performance of a 5MWh or above electrochemical energy storage project from March 1, 2022, to the bid submission deadline (based on the contract signing date); or at least one performance in the design, construction, and equipment supply (must be LFP electrochemical energy storage system integration equipment, including at least battery prefabricated cabins, BMS, PCS, etc., with a cumulative supply of no less than 50MWh) of a 5MWh or above electrochemical energy storage project from March 1, 2022, to the bid submission deadline (based on the contract signing date) (which can be the design, construction, and equipment supply performance of different projects). For joint venture bids, each party of the joint venture should provide the performance corresponding to the division of labor in the joint venture agreement. 2) Performance proof materials include but are not limited to: the front page (cover) of the contract, the project name page, the signing date page, the pages with signatures and seals of both parties, the contract scope page corresponding to the undertaken content, the supply list and construction period content page, etc. 3. Project Manager Requirements: (1) Possesses a first-class registered constructor (electromechanical engineering major) registration certificate and a valid safety production assessment certificate (Class B), and is registered with the bidder. For joint venture bids, the project manager should be assigned by the joint venture member undertaking the construction work according to the joint venture agreement, and the first-class registered constructor electronic registration certificate needs to be signed by the person. (2) Shall not concurrently serve as the project manager or person in charge of other construction projects. 4. Safety Requirements: (1) The bidder or the joint venture member responsible for construction must have a valid safety production license (a safety production license in a suspended state is considered invalid), and provide a scanned copy of the safety production license. (2) From March 1, 2022, to the bid submission deadline, the bidder (including joint venture bid members) has not had any major or above personal injury accidents or has not been included in the government safety supervision system, China Resources Group, or China Resources Power EHS blacklist. 5. Joint Venture Bidders: Allowed, with no more than 3 members. 6. Reputation Requirements: The bidder is not in the period or scope of punishment for dishonest behavior as announced on the following websites: 1) Listed in the list of seriously dishonest enterprises on the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System website (.cn); 2) Listed in the list of dishonest punishment on the National Public Credit Information Center "Credit China" website (.cn); 3) Listed in the list of dishonest executors on the Supreme People's Court China Enforcement Information Disclosure website (zxgk.court.gov.cn); 4) Listed in the "blacklist" of joint punishment for safety production dishonesty on the website of the Ministry of Emergency Management of the People's Republic of China (.cn); 5) Listed in the list of serious dishonest behavior records on the China Government Procurement website (.cn); The bidder needs to provide the query results on the above websites in the bid documents, and the query results should be the automatically generated PDF report electronic version or webpage screenshot. 7. Patent Requirements: If the equipment design plan adopts patents, the bidder must hold the relevant valid patent certificate and its creative patent evaluation report, or relevant patent authorization. 8. Other Requirements: For the core equipment of the energy storage system (energy storage battery cells, energy storage power conversion system (PCS), battery PACK, and battery system), at least one item must be produced and supplied by the equipment supplier, and have a type test report issued by a CMA/CNSA energy storage testing qualification agency.

[Over 183 GW of PV Power Plant EPC Contracts Finalized] In 2024, PV installations in China will continue to grow, driving sustained activity in EPC bidding. According to publicly available data compiled by Polaris, there are 2,889 PV EPC projects tendered nationwide in 2024, totaling approximately 187 GW. Central state-owned enterprises such as SPIC and China Energy Investment Corporation remain the main developers. There are 22 enterprises with tender scales at the GW level, with a total scale exceeding 118 GW, accounting for 63% of the total tenders.

【Local Sodium Battery: Shandong Qingyun Lithium-Sodium Battery Industry Cluster】At the end of June 2024, the Shandong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology released the list of Shandong Provincial Characteristic Industrial Clusters for 2024, with Qingyun County, Dezhou City's Lithium-Sodium Battery New Energy Characteristic Industrial Cluster successfully included. Shandong Yibo New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. within this cluster boasts the first digital sodium-ion battery production line in China, with a daily production capacity of 14,500 sodium battery cells and an annual output of 3 million units. Furthermore, Shandong Chengxi New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. will officially settle in 2024, introducing a production capacity of 2GWh lithium-sodium ion power and energy storage batteries per year.

【Guangdong Qingyuan issues a document: encouraging industrial enterprises to build distributed photovoltaic power generation systems and new energy storage facilities】 SMM learned that on May 21, the General Office of Qingyuan Municipal People's Government of Guangdong Province issued an implementation opinion on Qingyuan's implementation of the "Several Measures to Promote the Accelerated Implementation of Technical Renovation of Industrial Enterprises under the New Situation in Guangdong Province". The document pointed out that it supports the promotion and application of new energy storage and other products, encourages industrial enterprises to build distributed photovoltaic power generation systems and new energy storage facilities, and encourages steel, cement and other industrial enterprises to carry out process improvement, emission reduction and low-carbon transformation projects.

The People's Government of Haicheng District, Beihai City, Guangxi, has signed a contract with Guangdong Qingneng Xinmingzhu New Energy Development Co., Ltd. for the Haicheng District 200MW/400MWh centralized shared new energy storage demonstration project. At the same time, a contract for the electrochemical energy storage battery production line project was also signed. It is reported that Guangdong Qingneng Xinmingzhu New Energy Development Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Guangdong Qingneng New Energy Development Co., Ltd.

On December 6th, China Resources Group announced the shortlisted candidates for the EPC general contracting of the supporting energy storage system for the Huarun Guangdong Qingyuan wind farm project. The first shortlisted candidate is Eastern Sunrise Energy (Shandong) Technology Development Co., Ltd., with a bid of 26,218,990.70 RMB and a unit price of 1.748 RMB/Wh. The second shortlisted candidate is Qingyuan Electric Power Engineering Installation Co., Ltd., with a bid of 28,992,506.00 RMB and a unit price of 1.933 RMB/Wh. According to the tender documents, the EPC general contracting project for the supporting energy storage system of the Huarun Guangdong Qingyuan wind farm project includes a 10MW/10MWh (35kV AC side discharge capacity) energy storage system for the Huarun Qingyuan Fogang Gospel Wind Farm project and a 5MW/5MWh (35kV AC side discharge capacity) energy storage system for the expansion of the Huarun Qingyuan Qingxin Linquan Wind Farm project.

"China Resources Group announced that the following candidates have been shortlisted for the EPC general contracting of the supporting energy storage system for the Huaxi Guangdong Qingyuan Wind Power Project: - First shortlisted candidate: Dongfang Xuneng (Shandong) Technology Development Co., Ltd., with a bid of RMB 26,218,990.70 and a unit price of RMB 1.748/Wh. - Second shortlisted candidate: Qingyuan Dianchuang Electric Power Engineering Installation Co., Ltd., with a bid of RMB 28,992,506.00 and a unit price of RMB 1.933/Wh."