In the past two years, low voltage issues have frequently occurred at end-users during peak periods of electricity consumption in scenic spots. This has not only impacted residents' lives and tourists' enjoyment, but has also become a bottleneck restricting local industrial development.
Take the ongoing popularity of the Scottish Premier League as an example. Driven by the competition, cultural and tourism revenues across Jiangsu cities have increased significantly. At the same time, each match and surge in tourism poses a significant challenge to local electricity demand.
According to data from State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power, during the summer vacation, the peak load on the Jiangsu power grid reached 152 million kilowatts, breaking the record for the third time this year. Among these, the catering, comprehensive retail, and indoor entertainment sectors, core sectors of the "night economy," performed particularly well. During the four hours between 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM daily, electricity consumption exceeded 1.05 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 14.3%.
Facing the high electricity demand challenges brought on by the competition and high temperatures, State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power actively sought electricity from western and northern regions, leveraging existing inter-provincial and inter-regional transmission projects. On the other hand, the new energy storage power station can be fully utilized to discharge energy to the power grid during the peak electricity consumption in the evening.
Scenic Areas + Energy Storage: Standard Configuration
With green tourism becoming a new industry trend, energy storage has become a "standard," not an "optional," energy security feature for scenic areas.
In September 2025, the Haokun Lake Scenic Area in Lingyun County welcomed its first 0.4 kV low-voltage mobile energy storage device, which was officially put into operation and connected to the grid in the Sanhe Substation in Lingzhan Township.
This low-voltage mobile energy storage device acts like a "power bank," offering rapid response and intelligent regulation capabilities.
When the voltage on any phase falls below 195 volts during peak hours, the device instantly "discharges" to replenish energy, stabilizing the terminal voltage to around 225 volts, a safe range. During off-peak hours, it automatically "recharges" the stored energy to reserve power for the next round of peak load regulation.
This energy storage device provides a targeted solution to low terminal voltage issues in specific areas, and its operation has immediately improved the quality of electricity used in the scenic area. Last September, Dianguanjia New Energy and Haichang Polar Ocean World successfully reached an in-depth collaboration, jointly developing the park's first commercial energy storage project.
The project boasts a capacity of 20MWh. The addition of energy storage will flexibly adapt to the park's overall electricity pricing. By storing energy during off-peak hours and releasing it during peak hours, the park's electricity costs will be reduced, contributing to overall cost reduction and efficiency gains. Furthermore, with the continuous optimization of time-of-use electricity prices and the widening gap between peak and off-peak prices, the economic benefits of behind-the-meter energy storage will continue to increase.
The energy storage power station has been successfully and stably operating for six months and is expected to reduce CO₂ emissions by over 12,000 tons annually. In addition to the carbon reduction benefits, the energy storage system's stable discharge at full power provides strong support for grid load regulation.
In August of this year, Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park's 10MW/20MWh energy storage project responded by reducing grid load by 10,000 kilowatts between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM that day. Combined with flexible user load regulation, the response reached 11,600 kilowatts, generating 23,200 kWh of electricity over two hours.
From Energy Storage to "Scenic Spot Microgrids"
In addition to energy storage devices, larger scenic spots have opted for more complex photovoltaic, storage, and charging microgrid systems. Over the past two years, major resorts have begun implementing photovoltaic, storage, and charging microgrid projects. These projects not only pioneered green energy transitions within scenic areas but also comprehensively improved the reliability of scenic area-level power grids, providing reliable power for the green and sustainable development of regional industries and economies.
In 2023, China's first large-scale resort scenic spot zero-carbon parking lot featuring "photovoltaic + energy storage + vehicle charging" was completed within the Overseas Chinese Hometown International Tourism Resort in Chikan Ancient Town, Jiangmen, Guangdong. The project plans to construct a 3.9MWp photovoltaic parking shed, utilizing a self-generated power generation model with surplus power connected to the grid. This project will serve as a model for the development of low-carbon parking lots in scenic spots across China.
The entire scenic area's parking lot photovoltaic project plans to construct a 3.9MWp photovoltaic carport and 500 charging spaces, providing 3.814 million kWh of green electricity annually to the scenic area and parking lot, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 1,219 tons.
In 2024, the Wuyishan low-voltage microgrid demonstration project officially launched. It is reported that the project combines distributed photovoltaics, energy storage, and vehicle-to-grid charging stations to build the Wuyishan Resort's first "zero-carbon" microgrid. The project configuration includes 40kW of BIPV, 40kW of rooftop photovoltaics, 20kW of carport photovoltaics, multiple charging and discharging stations, and DC fast charging stations, equipped with 60kW/h energy storage batteries and a DC emergency shelter.
The project's highlight, the "zero-carbon" DC charging cabin, is understood to be not only the brains of the microgrid project, displaying real-time energy load data within the station, but also serves as a future emergency safety cabin for the resort, jointly developed by the Emergency Management Bureau and Gongguan Village. Power will be supplied primarily by the carport photovoltaics, supplemented by energy storage, and supplemented by AC mains electricity. V2B direct power supply can be expanded later. In July 2025, Shaanxi Province's first low-voltage integrated PV-storage-charging DC smart microgrid was completed and put into operation at the Huaxi Valley Scenic Area in Yijun County, Tongchuan City.
This system, centered around a multi-port integrated microgrid device, comprises a DC power generation and distribution system comprised of distributed photovoltaic power sources, energy storage devices, DC charging piles, and monitoring and protection devices.
The project deployed a 943-kW carport photovoltaic system, eight 120-kW dual-charger DC fast-charging piles, two 60-kW single-charger V2G DC fast-charging piles, and one 200-kW/426-kWh energy storage device in the parking lot of the Huaxi Valley Scenic Area.
This integrated solution enables coordinated DC operation, control, and regulation of photovoltaic, energy storage, and charging piles within the microgrid, improving operational efficiency and promoting efficient regional photovoltaic utilization. Driven by policy, green and low-carbon cultural tourism have become the inevitable direction of industry development. In March of this year, Premier Li Qiang, in his government work report at the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress, explicitly listed "new energy storage" as a rapidly growing emerging industry and emphasized its crucial role in supporting the country's energy strategic transformation. This statement not only continues the policy tone of "developing new energy storage," first proposed in the 2024 Government Work Report, but also signals a deepening of China's top-level design for new energy.
The 2024 Government Work Report first explicitly incorporated "new energy storage" into the national development plan, proposing to "accelerate the construction of a new energy system" and placing it alongside large-scale wind and solar power plants and distributed energy as a core component of the energy revolution. The 2025 Government Work Report further emphasized the rapid development of new energy storage within emerging industries, positioning it as a strategic engine for energy transformation. It's easy to see the crucial role that energy storage will play in the future of the new energy landscape.
Currently, officials from local cultural and tourism authorities, project operators, homestay owners, and ancient architecture experts are exploring how to integrate new energy storage and photovoltaic technologies into scenic area development. In the future, "new energy scenic spots" will also be a development force that cannot be ignored.
