The Golden Sun Project was cheated to make up 200 million companies saying it was good to lie

On June 20, the National Audit Office issued an announcement stating that in the subsidy policy of the Golden Sun Demonstration Project (hereinafter referred to as “Golden Sun Project”) implemented by the state, corporate fraud was serious.

From November 2012 to March 2013, the National Audit Office paid for the “three subjects” of energy conservation and environmental protection in 18 provinces such as Guangdong and Anhui in 2011 and 2012 (ie, energy conservation and utilization. The audited three sources of renewable energy and resources were audited, involving 5044 projects and 62.109 billion yuan.

The audit found that 348 project units crowded out and misappropriated the “three subjects” funds of 1.617 billion yuan, accounting for 2.6% of the extended audit funds. Among them, 8 Golden Sun projects have used 207 million yuan in illegal use, accounting for 12.8% of the total illegal funds.

The Golden Sun Project, which has been in operation for 4 years and has a state subsidy of more than 20 billion yuan, has long been questioned by “fraud subsidies, delays, and shoddy”, and speculation that the policy is coming to an end and the industry is deeply fluctuating.

This time, the "Golden Sun" was once again overcast.

Large amount of violations and high proportion

The 8 Golden Sun projects with illegal use of funds include Guangdong Hanergy Photovoltaic Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Guangdong Hanergy”) 10 MW photovoltaic power generation project (violation of the central financial subsidy fund of 26.3725 million yuan), Anhui Province glass industry design The research institute of Ningguo Port Ecological Industrial Park Photovoltaic Power Generation Demonstration Project (violation of the central government subsidy fund of 3,359.89 million yuan), including the first batch of Golden Sun Project in 2009, also the Golden Sun Project in 2012.

There are three main types of illegal use of funds: first, fabricating false declaration materials, arranging and defrauding funds; second, squeezing and misappropriating funds for production and operation, business expenses, etc.; 3. “reporting large construction and small” and repeating declarations Wait for the law to get funding.

Judging from the amount of illegal funds, the Golden Sun Project has the largest scale of illegal use of funds in 348 illegal projects. For example, the user-side grid-connected amorphous silicon photovoltaic power generation project of Longzhonghu Industrial Park of Anhui Zhongdian Energy Investment Management Co., Ltd., through the false declaration materials, obtained the central financial subsidy fund of 59.26 million yuan, the largest amount; 8 golden sun In the project violation project, there are 6 illegal use funds exceeding 20 million yuan. Among the 340 non-compliance projects except the Golden Sun project, only 4 of the illegally used funds exceeded 20 million yuan, and most of the projects used illegally under 10 million yuan.

According to the audit report, the reporters invested a total of 8.149 billion yuan in the Golden Sun project, involving 239.37 MW installed capacity. The total size of the eight Golden Sun projects that violated the regulations was 64.298 MW, accounting for 29% of the total installed capacity.

"The violation is normal"!

Meng Xianyu, vice chairman of the China Renewable Energy Society, said, "This result is not surprising. The audit report shows that violations of the regulations exist in various industries, including the government departments themselves, and the state subsidies. There are tens of billions of funds, and there are now 200 million illegal funds. This amount is not particularly large, but it reflects China's problems in the management of photovoltaic projects."

“The Golden Sun Engineering Demonstration Project plays a certain role in the development of the domestic PV market, but its policy itself is flawed. It is a one-time subsidy. After the government allocated funds to the enterprise subsidy, the follow-up supervision of the project was not implemented, although the relevant departments issued a document. It said that it is necessary to recover the subsidy funds from projects that have not been completed or connected to the grid, but the operability is very weak," said Meng Xianyu.

"Any policy has loopholes, and the lack of supervision and punishment is not the main reason for this phenomenon." Lin Boqiang, director of the China Energy Economic Research Center of Xiamen University, said.

On June 22nd, Guangdong Hanergy issued a statement on “over-reporting the construction scale and installed capacity, and obtaining the central financial fund solar subsidy fund of 26.37225 million yuan in violation of regulations”.

Guangdong Hanergy's 10 MW photovoltaic power generation project was included in the first batch of catalogues of Golden Sun Engineering in 2012 and was approved. The company said that in November 2012, the project's first subsidy of 38.5 million yuan was allocated to the co-management account of Guangdong Heyuan City Finance Bureau and Guangdong Hanergy. During the implementation of the project, due to the restrictions on the installation and laying of the roof of the plant, the Guangdong Hanergy plant actually completed 5.18 MW and was connected to the grid for power generation.

The audit report shows that after the audit pointed out, Guangdong Hanergy has all of the above funds returned to the funding channel.

The Photovoltaic Power Generation Demonstration Project of the Ningguo Port Eco-Industrial Park of Anhui Province was listed in the second batch of the Golden Sun Project in 2012 and was approved. The audit report showed that the project agreement for the lease of the Golden Sun Project signed by the project unit and the Ningguo Port Eco-industrial Park Management Committee was untrue, and the central government subsidy fund was 35.389 million yuan.

According to media reports, in the second half of 2012, due to the impact of the economic environment, some enterprises signed and introduced by Ningguo Port Eco-industrial Park began to withdraw their funds and retired from the park. Some of the factories originally planned to be built in October also experienced construction delays or even suspensions. . Therefore, the photovoltaic project cannot be laid smoothly.

Wu Dacheng, Secretary General of the Photovoltaic Professional Committee of the China Renewable Energy Society, told China Economic Weekly: "In the Golden Sun Project, due to the tight reporting time, the company's project feasibility study report is often insufficient, which has led to many projects. In the implementation process, it did not match the original report."

Most of the 8 solar-powered project units that used funds illegally chose silence. Shandong Dongying Photovoltaic Solar Co., Ltd. rejected the interview of China Economic Weekly with “inconvenient convenience”.

Deceive zero risk! ?

According to the requirements of the audit department, the funds obtained in violation of the regulations must be returned.

However, subsidies for some companies have been used and cannot be returned. Therefore, these companies are trying to complete the project in accordance with the “original plan”. According to media reports, Anhui Glass-lined Industrial Design and Research Institute is replenishing the roof of some enterprises in Ningguo Economic and Technological Development Zone as the roof of “unfinished construction”, stepping up the completion, and waiting for the next grid-connected power generation, which is the national level of Ningguo. Urban construction "re-establish new achievements"!

The companies that have returned the subsidy funds have not given up. Guangdong Hanergy said that in December 2012, the company had signed a contract with Nongfu Springs Source Base to change the uncompleted 4.82 MW capacity construction site to Nongfu Springs Plant and submitted it to the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission for approval. At present, this project has been completed, is being applied for completion and grid connection, and will apply for the remaining subsidy funds.

If you get subsidy funds for violations, you will not only be punished, but you will be able to return the wrong ones. Can the illegal funds that have been returned can be “re-applied again”?

At present, China's regulatory and penalties for violations of the photovoltaic industry are lacking. "There is no policy, nor is there any law that requires these funds to be returned or punish the offenders," said Meng Xianyu.

"The audit department is mainly responsible for supervising the implementation and effectiveness of the appropriations, and using the power of public opinion and the original allocation of funds to form a certain pressure on the users of funds." Lei Guangyong, an auditing expert and professor of the Department of Accounting at the University of International Business and Economics, told China Economic Weekly, "The audit department generally does not involve specific work such as the recovery, recovery or punishment of illegal funds. These tasks are carried out by the competent department of funds."

"This involves the management system." Meng Xianyu said that the current PV industry involves four or five regulatory authorities. "Therefore, the responsibilities of the management system are unclear, and many problems are gone."

According to the provisions of the Renewable Energy Law, China's energy authorities will implement management of renewable energy development and utilization, and relevant departments will manage them within their respective functions and responsibilities. In fact, the National Energy Administration can only do some planning and project management. The decision-making power of the price is in the hands of the National Development and Reform Commission. The Internet access problem is determined by the power regulatory department and the power grid company. The photovoltaic manufacturing industry is managed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Meng Xianyu said that for the Golden Sun project subsidy policy issued by the Ministry of Finance, the management of the National Energy Administration could not be implemented, and the Ministry of Finance could not manage the photovoltaic power station.

An industry insider said that the reality is that it is a good result to be able to recover the funds.

“The easiest way is to refrain from granting subsidies to these companies when they apply again next time.” For funds that cannot be recovered, legal funds can also be used to recover funds. Lei Guangyong said, "But the key to the problem is who will do the lawsuit." Due to the complexity of the proceedings and the high time cost, there are very few penalties for violating the project in this way.

However, according to an industry source, the Golden Sun project has actually stopped. "Although the financial department did not expressly stop, there will be no new Golden Sun project this year. With the upcoming introduction of the power subsidy policy, the Golden Sun project marked by the one-end subsidy at the front end has actually ended."

"The relevant PV policy issued by the country this year has shown that the subsidy policy for distributed power plants in the next step will be subsidies for electricity, and will eventually be the on-grid tariff policy for solar photovoltaic power generation. There is no point in doing the Golden Sun project." According to industry insiders, "in the future, it may be just to do some Golden Sun projects in marginal areas and non-electric areas, but the scale will not be large."