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Power project developer Gansu Electric Power Investment Group (GEPIC) plans to invest more than RMB 12.9 billion in 2 large-scale renewable energy projects within the 6 GW Tengger Desert New Energy Base.
The projects include the 3 GW Liangzhou Jiuduntan PV project and the 1 GW Minqin Nanhu wind power project, both to be developed by its subsidiary Gansu Electric Power Runneng (Wuwei) New Energy.
Construction is scheduled over a 24-month period. The PV project is expected to generate 4.841 billion kWh annually, while the wind project is forecast to produce 1.943 billion kWh per year.
In April, GEPIC announced its plans to build a wind-solar hybrid project in Qingyang, Gansu Province, comprising 750 MW of wind and 250 MW of PV capacity (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
Major energy developer China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) has begun construction of its 350 MW concentrated solar power (CSP) demonstration project in Golmud, Qinghai Province. The project includes an 11,747 MWh molten salt thermal storage system with a 15-hour storage duration, making it the largest single-unit thermal storage system currently under development globally.
Located in the Wutumeiren PV and CSP Industrial Park, the project adopts a hybrid tower-and-trough CSP design with a total solar field aperture area of 3.7 million m² across 3 tower fields and 1 trough field.
The trough section uses CGN’s self-developed 8.6 m large-aperture trough collectors, which achieved a concentration ratio of 107.5 and stable operation at 550°C. Once commissioned, the project is expected to generate 1 billion kWh of electricity annually, reduce coal consumption by 320,000 tons, and cut CO₂ emissions by 860,000 tons per year.
Cosin Solar is supplying heliostats for this project, which announced in May that it had begun production of the equipment (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
China’s State Council has released its 15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Beautiful China, setting a target for non-fossil energy to account for 25% of total energy consumption by 2030 while supporting the country’s goal of peaking carbon emissions before the end of the decade.
The plan calls for continued expansion of wind, solar, hydropower, and nuclear energy, alongside greater renewable electricity consumption and accelerated energy-efficiency improvements. It also states that new electricity demand should be met primarily through new clean energy generation.
It also includes additional measures such as phased renewable energy consumption requirements for energy-intensive industries, promotion of renewable energy use in western China, support for relocating suitable industries to renewable-rich regions, and increased recycling of retired renewable energy equipment.
Energy and environmental governance investment company Wuhan Tianyuan Group has grid-connected the first phase of its 1 GW Gobi Desert integrated solar-and-storage project in Ussu, Xinjiang.
The newly commissioned phase includes 575 MW of PV generation, a 150 MW/300 MWh energy storage system (ESS), and a 220 kV booster station, with total investment reaching approximately RMB 1.6 billion.
The demonstration project is expected to generate ~700 million kWh of electricity annually, saving about 86,000 tons of standard coal and reducing CO₂ emissions by approximately 214,000 tons each year.
Jiangxi Province has released a revised draft of its implementation rules for competitive bidding of mechanism electricity prices for incremental renewable energy projects.
Under the proposal, commercial and industrial (C&I) distributed PV projects operating under a self-consumption-plus-surplus-export model would no longer be eligible for mechanism electricity pricing from January 1, 2027.
The draft also proposes that centralized wind and solar projects, as well as decentralized wind and distributed PV projects connected from June 1, 2025 onward, determine mechanism electricity volumes and prices through competitive bidding. Wind and solar projects will be evaluated separately, while aggregators of distributed renewable energy projects will be encouraged to participate.
