On 10 month 23 day, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Energy Administration, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development jointly issued the special document "Implementation Rules for Natural Gas Distributed Energy Demonstration Projects" (hereinafter referred to as the "Rules"). The Rules specify the application conditions, selection principles, project implementation, acceptance, post-evaluation, and incentive policies for natural gas distributed energy demonstration projects. The promulgation of this document aims to improve management procedures such as review and application for natural gas distributed energy demonstration projects, promoting the rapid, healthy, and orderly development of natural gas distributed energy.

In recent years, discussions on distributed energy have been ubiquitous in the energy sector. On one hand, it is believed that the advent of the distributed era is inevitable; on the other hand, there are concerns about the slow development of distributed energy. It is undeniable that the integration of clean energy utilization, renewable energy utilization, and industrial waste heat and pressure recovery constitutes the distributed energy system. Under the multiple pressures of environmental issues, energy shortages, and grid security, high hopes are naturally placed on distributed energy.