On November 13, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the National Energy Administration (NEA) jointly issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for New Energy Storage Implementation. The plan calls for supporting the coordinated development of new energy storage and emerging power system models, and exploring non-electric uses of new energy such as thermal storage and hydrogen storage. It also supports deploying new energy storage in innovative models—including source-grid-load-storage integration, direct green power supply, smart microgrids, renewable energy access to incremental distribution networks, and virtual power plants—to enhance self-peaking and self-balancing capabilities. In addition, the plan urges combining the buildout of charging infrastructure with integrated photovoltaic-storage-charging-discharging applications, encouraging the reasonable deployment of energy storage, and exploring vehicle-to-grid (V2G) interaction use cases.