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GB/T 47241-2026Technical guidelines for virtual power plants (English PDF)

虚拟电厂技术导则

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Issued by

SAMR; SAC

Level / Type

National · Recommended

Issue date

February 27, 2026

Implementation date

September 1, 2026

Scope

GB/T 47241-2026 is the English-translated version of 虚拟电厂技术导则.

GB/T 47241-2026 is the Chinese standard "Technical guidelines for virtual power plants". Its scope clause reads: This document specifies the general principles, overall framework, resources and access, systems and terminals, information and communication, security protection, and design verification of virtual power plants.

Requirements for receipt and testing, operation and management, benefits and evaluation. This document applies to the construction, connection, operation, and management of virtual power plants. Its clauses include terms and definitions.

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National Standard of the People's Republic of China

ICS: 29.020
Classification: F 20

Issued by: State Administration for Market Regulation; Standardization Administration of the PRC

Preface
1.Scope
2 Normative References
3.Terms and Definitions
4 General Rules
5.Overall Framework
6 Resources and Access
7 Systems and Terminals
7.1 Requirements for Business Systems Connecting to Virtual Power Plants
7.2 Requirements for the Technical Support System of Virtual Power Plant Operators
7.3 Requirements for Virtual Power Plant Terminals
8 Information and Communication
9.Safety Protection
10 Design Acceptance and Testing
11 Operation and Management
12 Benefits and Evaluation
References

1 Scope

This document specifies the general principles, overall framework, resources and access, systems and terminals, information and communication, security protection, and design verification of virtual power plants.

Requirements for receipt and testing, operation and management, benefits and evaluation.

This document applies to the construction, connection, operation, and management of virtual power plants.

2 Normative references

The contents of the following documents, through normative references within the text, constitute essential provisions of this document. Dated citations are not included.

For references to documents, only the version corresponding to that date applies to this document; for undated references, the latest version (including all amendments) applies.

This document.

GB/T 22239 Information Security Technology - Basic Requirements for Network Security Level Protection

GB/T 36572 Guidelines for Network Security Protection of Power Monitoring Systems

GB/T 44241 Virtual Power Plant Management Standard

3 Terms and Definitions

The following terms and definitions apply to this document.

3.1 Virtual power plant (VPP)

Based on the power system architecture, and utilizing modern information and communication, system integration and control technologies, it integrates distributed power sources, adjustable loads, and energy storage.

Various decentralized resources, as new types of business entities, collaboratively participate in power system optimization and power market transactions, forming a power operation organization model and system.

3.2 Virtual power plant resources VPPresources

Distributed power sources, adjustable loads, energy storage, and combinations thereof that have the ability to output electrical energy or provide power regulation.

[Source. GB/T 44260-2024, 3.2, with modifications]

3.3 Virtual Power Plant Operator (VPPoperator)

Operating entities that aggregate, regulate, control, and trade virtual power plant resources.

3.4

It provides technical support for virtual power plant operators to implement control strategies and trading decisions, enabling resource monitoring, aggregated control, and energy regulation.

A hardware and software system with functions such as performance evaluation, market decision-making, information exchange, and operations management.

3.5 Virtual Power Plant Terminal (VPPterminal)

Installed on the resource side, it can communicate with virtual power plant resources to realize functions such as data acquisition, information reception, and control execution, and communicate with the virtual power plant.

Equipment used for information exchange in the operator's technical support system.

Note. This includes data acquisition and monitoring devices installed by virtual power plant operators.

[Source. GB/T 44241-2024, 3.5, with modifications] […]

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