Recently, the reporter of "China Energy News" visited the Yiwu new energy product market, including all kinds of stores, a dazzling array of products, customers of different skin tones, and hot trading...... Being in it, I personally felt the "fireworks" of the "new three" that are selling all over the world.
▲Yiwu International Trade City District 2 East New Energy Products Market. Wang Lin/photo
Photovoltaic panels, batteries, water pumps, new energy vehicles...... Here, you can buy almost all new energy products on the market, as small as dozens of dollars a solar lamp, as large as hundreds of thousands of yuan a domestic brand electric car, here is the country's first new energy product market - Yiwu International Trade City District 2 East New Energy Products Market (hereinafter referred to as "Yiwu New Energy Products Market").
Recently, the reporter of "China Energy News" visited the Yiwu new energy product market, including all kinds of stores, a dazzling array of products, customers of different skin tones, and hot trading...... Being in it, I personally felt the "fireworks" of the "new three" that are selling all over the world.
At 8 a.m., most of the shops were open, some were sorting out their products, some were cleaning, but they were basically ready to open their doors. After a while, customers poured into the shops like a tidal wave, including many foreign customers.
In a new energy product store on the second floor, a foreign guest held a product similar to a battery, and was communicating with the clerk while gesturing, and the clerk then took out another similar product to explain and compare, and after 10 minutes, the foreign guest nodded again and again, and then signed an order, and a new energy product order was reached.
"We now also sell to individual customers, but most of the customers, especially foreign customers, come with a 'mission' and a clear goal. Basically, as long as there is agreement on the product parameters and price, the deal is done. The clerk of this store said in an interview.
After visiting several stores one after another, the reporter found that almost all the shopkeepers took the initiative to apply to enter this market, and after moving in, there were more and more orders, and the business radiation was getting wider and wider. Most of the shopkeepers basically have a list of buyers in the countries of the "Belt and Road" initiative, a list of new energy procurement demand merchants, and some have even begun to set up a team of foreign employees, striving to expand the new energy product business from simple procurement and export to door-to-door installation and follow-up operation and maintenance services after export.
The booming business of Yiwu's new energy product market reflects the development resilience of the mainland's new energy industry and the foreign trade confidence represented by the "new three". "Buy the world, sell the world", Yiwu, which has risen with the rise of small commodity trade, is quietly changing the new positioning of commodity foreign trade exports.
The reporter found that JinkoSolar, JA Solar, Trina Solar, Risen Energy and many other solar energy companies have landed in Yiwu, and 5 of the top 10 companies in the world in terms of photovoltaic module shipments have built production bases in Yiwu. Obviously, the world's first new energy product market settled in Yiwu, which has also become a logical thing.
On March 17, 2023, Yiwu New Energy Products Market officially opened, with the first batch of more than 260 stores, including more than 200 brands and more than 10,000 new energy products, mainly exported to the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, South America and other countries and regions of the "Belt and Road" initiative.
"This is a store specially set up for new energy products, and as soon as we got the news, we started to prepare the application materials, and we moved in as soon as we were approved." The clerk of the Jieerke electrical appliance store told reporters, "The guests who come to buy things are targeted, and it is certain to shop around, but 'good goods are not worried', even if they come in and take a look, it is also a kind of promotion of our brand." ”
The clerk of the Likuo water pump shop, which is mainly engaged in water pumps and solar lanterns, said frankly: "Yiwu's unique logistics advantages have attracted many new energy brands to open stores here. Guests from Africa and the Middle East have a great demand for new energy products, and even those who do not have such needs will come here to shop, which is actually a kind of drainage. ”
The reporter noticed that Yiwu's new energy product market is "green", which is not only reflected in the sales of new energy products, but also in the layout of low-carbon operation and construction. It is understood that the State Grid Yiwu Power Supply Company cooperated with Yiwu Mall Group to create a "Business City Source-Grid-Load-Storage Collaborative Demonstration Project" in the new energy product market.
In the digital exhibition hall in the east of the second district, the relevant person in charge of the State Grid Yiwu Power Supply Company demonstrated to the reporter of "China Energy News": "This project integrates photovoltaic, energy storage, charging, intelligent control and service platform, including photovoltaic carport, fast charging pile, energy storage, intelligent control, phase change cold storage, and power distribution optimization, which will be connected to the terminal comprehensive energy intelligence platform for remote real-time monitoring and dynamic analysis, so as to improve the energy-saving management of this building (east of the second district) and reduce energy resource consumption." ”
It is understood that the total installed capacity of the rooftop photovoltaic project is about 1.2 megawatts, and the average annual power generation is expected to be about 1.27 million kilowatt hours, and the intelligent energy storage project will add three sets of 250kW/680kWh energy storage batteries, which can be used for load reduction and photovoltaic power generation surplus in addition to serving as backup power supply. The charging pile project plans to design 251 charging spaces, and 44 fast charging guns have been built in the first phase.
"We operate with the strategy of 'peak shaving and valley filling', charging at valley time and discharging at peak time, and 'two charging and two discharging' every day. During the 8-year operation period, the income of 'peak shaving and valley filling' was about 3.9254 million yuan, covering the investment cost and benefiting 500,000 yuan. The relevant person in charge of the State Grid Yiwu Power Supply Company calculated an account for the reporter of China Energy News, "According to our calculations, this building (east of the second district) can save 1.16 million yuan in electricity bills every year, and the rooftop photovoltaic can generate a total of 31.934 million kWh of green electricity in 25 years according to the calculation of the 25-year operation period, which is equivalent to reducing 8686 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent." According to the annual electricity consumption of this building, photovoltaic power generation accounts for about 12.5%. ”
From "chicken feathers for sugar" to "world supermarket", Yiwu takes advantage of the logistics and trade advantages accumulated by small commodity trade, attracting foreign businessmen from all over the world to place orders here. "The development of new energy in the mainland is steady, and I firmly believe that this new energy product market will eventually become a 'world-class one-stop procurement market for new energy products'." The relevant person in charge of Yiwu Mall Group said.
Text丨Reporter Wang Lin
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Editor丨Yan Zhiqiang