Legal analysis: The National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration recently issued the Measures for the Administration of Power Sales Companies. The method is clear. Power selling companies (including wholly-owned, holding or shareholding companies) owned by power grid enterprises (including affiliated enterprises) shall have independent legal person status and operate independently, so as to ensure that the power selling business is isolated from other businesses in terms of personnel, finance, office location and information, and shall not obtain the contract business information of power selling competition and superior to other power selling companies through power trading institutions, power dispatching institutions and power grid enterprises. The National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration recently issued the Measures for the Administration of Power Sales Companies. Specifically, first, the registration conditions and procedures are more targeted. In addition to the general registration requirements, the Measures also put forward targeted registration requirements for power sales companies affiliated to power generation enterprises, power construction enterprises and power grid enterprises, paying more attention to promoting fair competition in the power sales market. In terms of registration procedures, the Measures put forward the responsibility system of initial injection to strengthen the responsibility of power trading institutions that handle the registration procedures of power sales companies for the first time; At the same time, the business license, asset certificate, business premises and technical support system required for the registration of power sales companies are described in detail. Before the promulgation of the "Measures", relevant people have reported that most of the electricity sales companies in various places were granted one-time access, but in fact they never really participated in the transaction. After the access, they became so-called "zombie" enterprises, or registered information such as company legal persons, total assets and professionals changed significantly, but they could not be verified or even contacted effectively.
Legal basis: Measures for the Administration of Power Sales Companies Article 1 In order to actively and steadily promote the reform of power sales side, establish and improve an orderly competitive market order, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of various market entities, these Measures are formulated in accordance with the Opinions of the Central Committee of the State Council on Further Deepening the Reform of Power System (Zhong Fa [2015] No.9) and the supporting documents for the reform of power system.