Regulations of Shandong Province on Rural Renewable Energy (revised on 20 15)

Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 In order to promote the development and utilization of renewable energy in rural areas, improve rural production conditions, improve the quality of life of rural residents, protect the ecological environment, and realize the sustainable development of agriculture and rural economy, these Regulations are formulated in accordance with the Renewable Energy Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and other relevant laws and regulations, combined with the actual situation of this province. Article 2 The rural renewable energy mentioned in these Regulations refers to non-fossil energy such as biomass energy, solar energy, wind energy, hydro energy, geothermal energy and ocean energy, which are mainly used in rural production and life. Article 3 These Regulations shall apply to the development and utilization of rural renewable energy and related management activities within the administrative area of this province. Article 4 The development and utilization of rural renewable energy should follow the principles of adjusting measures to local conditions, complementing energy sources, giving equal attention to energy conservation and voluntary participation of the masses, adhere to the combination of resource conservation and ecological environment protection, and realize the unification of economic benefits, social benefits and ecological benefits.

Encourage economic entities of various ownership to participate in the development and utilization of rural renewable energy, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of rural renewable energy developers and users according to law. Fifth people's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate rural renewable energy into the national economic and social development plan, and formulate corresponding preferential policies and safeguard measures to support the research, development, popularization and application of rural renewable energy.

People's governments at or above the county level shall organize relevant departments to strengthen publicity and education on the development and utilization of renewable energy in rural areas, make full use of various media such as radio, television, newspapers and the Internet, and popularize scientific energy use and technology popularization and application knowledge. Article 6 The administrative departments of agriculture of the people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the management of the development and utilization of rural renewable energy within their respective administrative areas.

The township (town) people's government is responsible for the development and utilization of rural renewable energy within its administrative area.

The relevant departments of the people's governments at or above the county level, such as development and reform, economy and informatization, finance, science and technology, land and resources, housing and urban-rural construction, environmental protection and quality and technical supervision, shall, according to their respective functions and duties, do a good job in the development and utilization of rural renewable energy. Chapter II Scientific Research and Development Article 7 The provincial people's government shall incorporate the scientific and technological research and industrialization development of rural renewable energy development and utilization into the scientific and technological development plan and high-tech industry development plan, organize and support scientific research, teaching, popularization and production units to engage in basic, key and public welfare technical research of rural renewable energy, and promote the technological progress of rural renewable energy development and utilization.

Provincial development and reform, economy and informatization, science and technology, and finance departments should support rural renewable energy research and development and achievement transformation in terms of project arrangement, innovation incentives, policies and financial support. Article 8 People's governments at or above the county level shall encourage scientific research institutions, enterprises and individuals to research and develop agricultural solar energy, small-scale wind energy, small-scale hydropower technology, biogas storage and transportation, biogas low-temperature fermentation, straw fermentation biogas, straw gasification, straw solidification carbonization and other biomass resource transformation technologies, and give policy and financial support. Ninth to encourage scientific and technological personnel to accelerate the transformation of rural renewable energy achievements through technology transfer, technology contracting, technology shares and other means. Tenth provincial standardization administrative departments shall, jointly with the provincial agricultural administrative departments and other relevant departments, formulate local standards and engineering technical specifications for rural renewable energy products in this province, and organize their implementation. Eleventh rural renewable energy products production must meet the national standards, industry standards or local standards. Where there are no national standards, industrial standards or local standards, the production enterprise shall formulate enterprise standards and report them to the local standardization administrative department and the agricultural administrative department for the record as required. Chapter III Popularization and Application Article 12 People's governments at all levels shall incorporate rural renewable energy technology popularization into the agricultural technology popularization system, give full play to the role of rural renewable energy technology popularization institutions, carry out public welfare services such as scientific research, technical guidance, technical training, information consultation and safety management of rural renewable energy, encourage and support rural collective economic organizations, enterprises and individuals to establish professional service organizations and carry out socialized service activities of rural renewable energy.

Township (town) agricultural technology popularization institutions shall determine full-time or part-time personnel to be responsible for the promotion of rural renewable energy. Article 13 The financial department of the people's government at or above the county level shall guarantee the funds needed for the rural renewable energy technology popularization institutions established by the government to perform their functions, and arrange part of the agricultural technology popularization funds for rural renewable energy technology popularization projects. Fourteenth to promote the application of new technologies and new products of rural renewable energy, efforts should be made to reduce relative costs and improve relative efficiency, which is conducive to ecological environment protection and sustainable and coordinated development.

New technologies and new products of rural renewable energy should be proved to be advanced, applicable and safe through field tests in the promotion area, and can only be promoted after being included in the promotion catalogue by the provincial agricultural administrative department and announced to the public.

Encourage units and individuals to participate in the promotion activities of new technologies and new products of rural renewable energy. Fifteenth rural renewable energy products produced and sold and the transferred technology should be practical, safe, convenient and easily accepted by the masses.

Units and individuals that produce, sell or transfer rural renewable energy products and technologies shall be responsible for the quality of the products they produce and sell or the technologies they provide, and impart safe operation knowledge to users and provide after-sales service.

It is forbidden to produce and sell rural renewable energy products that have been explicitly eliminated by the state or whose quality is unqualified.