CHINA STATE PLANNER and other agencies published the Guidelines for Accounting
of Non-fossil Energy Power Consumption (trial), strengthening alignment with
energy statistics and carbon emissions accounting. The rules classify
recognition criteria and set accounting methods for provinces, cities and power
users, explicitly considering physical grid connection, electricity transaction
volumes, and green-certificate/green-power trades. Authorities will coordinate
the rollout with power-market and green-certificate market development and move
cautiously from electricity-transaction-only accounting to a parallel framework
of electricity transactions and green-certificate transactions. Accounting will
be annual during the trial, with later study of shorter accounting cycles.
