Questions and answers about the tower ladder battery

I. Policy and Regulations section

1. What is the background of the country's use of ladder batteries?

In recent years, China's new energy automobile industry has developed rapidly. By the end of 2017, the cumulative output of new energy vehicles has exceeded 1.8 million, and the cumulative assembly of power batteries has exceeded 85GWh. It is predicted that the battery scrap will reach about 200,000 tons (24.6GWh) in 2020.

If a large number of decommissioned batteries are improperly disposed, it will bring environmental and safety hazards to the society, and also cause waste of resources, and at the same time restrict the healthy and sustainable development of the new energy automobile industry. The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the recycling of new energy vehicle power batteries, and the State Council convened a special meeting to conduct research and deployment.

Promoting the recycling of new energy vehicle power batteries is not only conducive to protecting the environment and social security, but also effectively improving the recycling level of resources and promoting the healthy development of China's new energy automobile industry; it is of great significance for accelerating green development, building ecological civilization and beautiful China. .

2. What is the result of the company's previous step-by-step pilot use?

Since October 2015, the company has been in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Henan, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Shandong, Tianjin, Shanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan and other 12 provinces and cities in more than 3000 base stations to carry out the retired power battery to replace the existing lead-acid battery test, in the case of peak power, cutting, such as micro grid application under different working condition the pilot use of battery, test site operation has obtained the good effect, fully verified the pilot use batteries used in communication base station in the field of technology and economic feasibility. It can not only ensure the quality of communication service, but also facilitate centralized control and prevent loss and pollution.

3. What are the advantages of the company's use of the ladder?

Our company has a wide range of organizations, a large number of base stations and batteries, and has natural advantages in the application market, dynamic monitoring network, and logistics system:

(1)Company size

The company has 31 provincial-level branches and 383 prefecture-level branches across the country. There are communication base stations where there are communication signals.

(2) Number of base stations

The company has 1.9 million tower site resources in China, covering many areas. The base stations of the machine room account for 49.5% (about 975,000), and the integrated cabinet base stations account for 37.5% (about 738,000).

(3) Monitoring network

The company has built the nation's largest wireless Internet of Things, real-time monitoring and dispatching of 1.9 million towers and 16 million sensing devices. The company has started to build a full life cycle management platform for the ladder battery, so as to realize the traceability, monitoring and recycling transaction management of the ladder battery, and ensure the operational safety of the battery using the ladder.

(4) Logistics system

The company has a maintenance team of 70,000 people across the country and 50,000 professional vehicles, which can fully realize the specialization of processing, transportation, installation and maintenance of ladder batteries.

4. What policies have been introduced at the national level for the use of ladders?

Since 2018, the State Ministry of Foreign Affairs has mainly promulgated the "Interim Measures for the Management of Recycling and Utilization of Power Battery for New Energy Vehicles" and the "Notice on Organizing the Pilot Work on Recycling and Utilization of Power Battery for New Energy Vehicles". The above policies were jointly issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, and the Energy Bureau. The China Railway Tower Company was deeply involved in the introduction of the above two policies.

5. What are the main contents of the Interim Measures for the Management of Recycling and Utilization of New Energy Vehicle Power Battery?

The approach mainly includes six aspects, as follows:

(1) Establish a system of extension of producer responsibility. It is clear that the automobile production enterprise is the main body of the recovery of the power battery. The enterprise that uses the enterprise as a step-by-step product is used to bear the responsibility for recycling the used waste battery, and to ensure the standard handover and disposal.

(2) Carry out the life cycle management of the power battery. For the design, production, sales, use, maintenance, scrapping, recycling, utilization and other aspects of the upstream and downstream of the power battery, it is clear that the relevant enterprises fulfill the responsibility of recycling and utilization of the power battery, ensure the effective use of the power battery and environmental protection, and build closed-loop management system.

(3) Establish a power battery traceability information system. With battery coding as the information carrier, the “new energy vehicle national monitoring and power battery recycling and traceability comprehensive management platform” is constructed to realize the source of power battery, the traceability, the node controllability and the responsibility.

(4) Promote innovation in market mechanisms and recycling models. Emphasis is placed on giving play to the leading role of enterprises, encouraging enterprises to explore new business models, guiding industry-university-research collaboration, and focusing on market-oriented applications to develop innovative models for power battery recycling.

(5) Maximize the benefits of comprehensive utilization of resources. Encourage the reuse of power storage batteries in accordance with the principle of recycling after first use. For the use of the value of the ladder, it can be used in the fields of energy storage and energy preparation; if it does not have the value of the cascade utilization, it can be recycled to extract valuable metals.

(6) Clear supervision and management measures. Establish a ladder battery utilization product management system and information sharing mechanism to form a synergy.

6. What work is required to implement the Interim Measures for the Management of Recycling and Utilization of Power Battery for New Energy Vehicles?

The first is to establish a recycling system. Promote automobile production enterprises to speed up the establishment of recycling channels for used power batteries, announce information on recycling service outlets, and ensure that the producer responsibility extension system is fully implemented. Guide enterprises such as automobile production, battery production, and comprehensive utilization to strengthen cooperation, form a cross-industry joint community through various forms, and establish an effective market-oriented mechanism.

The second is to implement traceability management. Uniform coding of power storage batteries and development of full life cycle traceability management is an important means of recycling and management of used power batteries. We will implement the whole life cycle information collection of production, sales, use, scrapping, recycling and utilization of power batteries, and do an online monitoring of the responsibility of all parties in fulfilling the recycling responsibility, and establish a sound supervision system.

The third is to improve the standard system. Accelerate the research and project of relevant standards for the recycling and utilization of power batteries, and promote the publication of a number of national standards such as the use of ladders, battery disassembly, and battery disassembly guidebooks, and support the development of industry, local and group standards.

The fourth is to do a good job in pilot demonstrations. Support qualified localities and enterprises to try first and carry out demonstrations of key areas of use. Through pilot demonstrations, discover problems and find solutions. Cultivate a number of benchmark enterprises for recycling and utilization of power batteries, and explore the formation of a diversified recycling model with strong technical economy and friendly resources and environment.

The fifth is to create a development environment. Strengthen the integration of relevant policies such as new energy vehicles that have been introduced, study support policies such as finance, taxation, science and technology, and environmental protection, encourage social capital investment or set up industrial funds, and promote the industrial application of key technologies and equipment.

7. What is the main content of the Notice on Organizing the Pilot Work of Recycling and Utilization of New Energy Vehicle Power Battery?

The overall requirement of the notice is that by 2020, a complete power battery recycling system will be established, and a number of advanced demonstration projects, a number of benchmark enterprises, a number of key technologies, and a number of technical standards will be formed.

The main content is to implement the producer responsibility extension system, build a recycling system; explore diversified business models, promote the scale and intelligence of the cascade utilization; promote the innovation and application of advanced technologies, and establish a sound policy incentive mechanism.

It is especially important that the notice mentions the China Tower four times and expressly supports the Chinese  Tower in carrying out the use of power battery ladders:

First, in terms of the scope of the pilot, “support Chinese iron tower companies and other enterprises to combine pilot projects in various regions, give full play to their own advantages, and carry out demonstration projects for the use of power battery ladders”;

Second, in the program preparation process, it is required that “China Tower Company, etc., combine the characteristics and objectives of the enterprise, and prepare the demonstration project implementation plan and report it to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology”;

The third is to summarize and evaluate the link and require “China Tower Company and other enterprises to summarize the implementation of the demonstration project and report it to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology”;

Fourth, in terms of policy support, “support the China Railway  Tower and other advantageous enterprises to jointly set up industrial funds, strengthen the docking of government, enterprises and financial institutions, and guide financial institutions to innovate products and services”.

8. What did the company do for the "Notice on Organizing the Pilot Work of Recycling and Utilization of New Energy Vehicle Power Battery"?

In order to implement the notice, the company has formulated the “Implementation Plan for the Major Demonstration Project of the New Energy Vehicle Power Battery Ladder Utilization of China Railway Tower Co., Ltd.”. The program was successfully reported on April 26th in the “Experts of the New Energy Vehicle Power Battery Recycling Pilot Implementation Program Experts” organized by the Energy Conservation Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. It has been revised and organized according to expert opinions.

9. What guidance does the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have for the coordinated use of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region?

As a region where China's new energy vehicles are relatively concentrated, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region will jointly carry out pilot work by exploring the advantages of the three places, and explore the recycling mode of power batteries with strong technical economy and resource-friendly environment to solve the safety involved in recycling. Issues such as environmental protection and resources are of great significance for the implementation of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated national strategy, the promotion of the healthy and sustainable development of the new energy vehicle industry, and the promotion of regional ecological civilization.

The three places cooperate to promote the recycling of used power batteries. First, we must attach great importance to the ideological and organizational aspects. According to the requirements of the Interim Measures for the Management of the Recycling and Utilization of New Energy Vehicles, the automobile manufacturers must conscientiously implement the extension system of producer responsibility and establish an internal management mechanism. Strictly fulfill the responsibility of recycling and other entities, and other enterprises must fulfill their respective responsibilities in all aspects.

Second, the competent departments of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region should do a good job in top-level design, strengthen coordination and communication, make overall planning and establish a cooperation mechanism.

Third, give full play to the leading role of enterprises and government, accelerate the establishment of recycling and utilization system, encourage the exploration and innovation of cascade utilization enterprises, properly control the number of dismantling enterprises according to the actual situation of regional ownership of new energy vehicles, strictly control the scale and distribution of back-end wet smelting, and rationally arrange related industries.

Fourth, we will focus on the pilot work, further improve the pilot implementation plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, adhere to the high starting point and strict requirements, break the geographical boundaries, identify key enterprises and projects participating in the pilot work, give full expression to regional cooperation, and strive to play a leading role in the demonstration nationwide.

The fifth is to speed up the establishment of a traceability management system, implement the traceability management of new energy vehicle power battery recycling, and launch the traceability management platform online.

10. What has the company done to build cooperation in battery recycling industry?

The company actively cooperates with battery plants, automobile plants, cascade utilization and recycling enterprises to establish relevant standards and improve industrial efficiency in product design, research and development, production, application, recycling and other whole life cycle links.

On January 4, 2018, the company take the lead in held in Beijing "China auto power battery industry innovation alliance recycling branch founding conference and power battery pilot recycling seminar", the ministry of energy saving department Yunhu Gao chief priests and the China association of automobile manufacturers Dong Yang executive vice President of the speech, lithium batteries, electric car enterprises, transport enterprises, regeneration recycling enterprises and related research units by 200 participants.

The meeting confirmed the working rules of the alliance branch, and elected Buwen Gao, deputy general manager of China tower co., ltd. as the chairman of the branch, and BYD Company Limited and Changsha mining and metallurgical research institute of China minmetals group as the vice chairman. Its members include more than 70 companies in automobile manufacturing, battery production, public transport, recycling and related scientific research institutions. Yunhu Gao, director-general of the energy conservation and comprehensive utilization department of the ministry of industry and information technology, and dong Yang, executive vice President of the China association of automobile manufacturers attended the meeting.

On the basis of this meeting, China tower actively strengthens cooperation with enterprises and research institutions related to the industrial chain, effectively promotes the integration of upstream and downstream cooperation of the industrial chain, strengthens collaborative innovation, and seeks common development.

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