A 150 MW/300 MWh grid-forming shared energy storage power station in Yongde County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province, was recently put into operation. The project is said to be the first of its kind in the province. Sineng Electric supplied 5 MW grid-forming converter-boost integrated systems based on its 1,250 kW grid-forming PCS, along with its second-generation enhanced hybrid grid-forming technology. The company said that under the ‘generation-grid-load-storage’ model, the project can flexibly smooth renewable energy generation and perform peak shaving and valley filling in response to local electricity pricing.
Energy developer China Datang has started operations at the country’s first demonstration base for integrated photovoltaic (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) development in the desert-Gobi-wasteland region. Located in Hami, Xinjiang, the base is part of China Datang’s 1 GW CSP+PV clean energy project in the area. It consists of advanced PV, conventional PV, and CSP demonstration zones, using various module types, mounting systems, inverters, and 46 heat collection loops, alongside 14 high-precision meteorological monitoring systems. The site enables over 100 different testing schemes.
State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) has announced the EPC tender results for a 500 MW offshore solar PV project, with Shanghai Investigation, Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Three Gorges Corporation, emerging as the winner. The project will be located in the sea area of Fengxian District on the northern coast of Hangzhou Bay, Shanghai, with a planned PV capacity of 500 MW. The site is 10 to 12 m deep and about 12 km from shore. It will be co-located with the existing Fengxian offshore wind farm, making it China’s first market-driven offshore ‘wind-solar hybrid’ project.
Last month, Tongwei and China Datang jointly inaugurated a high-altitude PV demonstration power plant in Derong County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
Solar cell and module manufacturer BAJ Solar has announced the termination of its planned 10 GW module manufacturing and R&D center project. The company had signed an agreement with Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, in 2023, planning to invest around RMB 1 billion ($139.4 million) to build a new 10 GW solar module factory and R&D center, with Phase I targeting 4 GW capacity. BAJ Solar stated in its latest filing that due to market changes in the solar industry and related business risks, the company reached an agreement with the local government to halt the project.
This is BAJ Solar’s second cancellation of a manufacturing project in the past 2 months. In July, the company terminated another project in Jiangshan, Zhejiang Province, which was planned for 16 GW of wafer slicing and solar cell production (see China Solar PV News Snippets).