TREE NEWS update: Beijing’s municipal government issued its 15th Five-Year Plan for a new energy system, aiming to raise inbound green electricity to 71 billion kWh. The plan calls for accelerating out-of-city green power bases, pushing the Northeast Songliao clean energy base-to-North China transmission project into operation, starting construction on a line from Inner Mongolia’s Hunshandake sandy land to Beijing, and scaling cross-provincial green power trading.
Beijing Targets 71 TWh of Inbound Green Power in 2026-2030 Energy Plan
The significance here is structural rather than headline-level: Beijing is formalizing long-distance green power imports as core energy infrastructure, which ties the capital's electricity mix to transmission projects and inter-provincial trading arrangements rather than to local generation. That makes the Songliao and Hunshandake links the real test of the plan, since the 71 TWh target depends on delivery capacity that does not yet exist. The effects land on grid operators, cross-provincial power traders and renewable developers in the northeast and Inner Mongolia. Whether the transmission timelines hold is the open question.
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