State grid grid investment will speed up in the second half of the year

Since the beginning of this year, the annual investment plan of the State Grid Company Limited has been increased from the original 418.6 billion yuan to 460 billion yuan, an increase of 9.9% over the original plan. It is estimated that the 460 billion yuan investment will drive social investment of more than 900 billion yuan, and the overall scale will reach 1.4 trillion yuan.

It is understood that "new infrastructure" is the largest investment of the State Grid this year, of which, UHV 181.1 billion yuan, "digital new infrastructure" 24.7 billion yuan, charging pile 2.7 billion yuan. "New infrastructure" not only plays an important supporting role in economic and social operation, but also will become a new driving force to promote a new round of economic growth in the future. In the short term, "new infrastructure" will help expand demand, stabilize growth, and stabilize employment. In the long run, it will inject digital impetus into industrial development and continuously release economic growth potential.

On June 15, the State Grid held a press conference and cloud signing ceremony for the key construction tasks of "digital new infrastructure" in Beijing, and released ten key construction tasks of "digital new infrastructure" such as grid digital platform, energy big data center, power big data application, power Internet of Things, and energy industry cloud network for all sectors of society. Strategic cooperation agreements were signed with partners such as Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, which marked the acceleration of the "digital new infrastructure".

In addition, 460 billion yuan of investment will also be used for poverty alleviation, rural network upgrading, rural electrification and other infrastructure projects, and the completion of the "three districts and three states" distribution network "100 days" project.