At 1 gigawatt, the solar power plant in northwest China would be the world's biggest, but the timeline is a bit iffy at the moment. Construction starts next year.
by: Jeff St. John December 31, 2008
Two Chinese companies have proposed a massive, 1-gigawatt solar photovoltaic power plant in China's northwest, one that would be the worlds biggest if it's completed.
The China Technology Development Group Corp. (NSDQ: CTDC) and Qinghai New Energy Co. announced this week that they had formed an agreement with local Chinese officials to start the project, according to a report from research firm JL McGregor & Company.
The project in Qinghai's Qaidam Basin will start out in 2009 with a more modest initial goal of 30 megawatts at a cost of 1 billion Yuan ($146 million), and will combine crystalline silicon and thin-film solar panels, the firm reported. The timeline and projected cost of the entire 1-gigawatt project were not disclosed.
But if built, it would be almost twice the size of the largest solar photovoltaic power project announced so far, a 550-megawatt thin-film power plant to be built in San Luis Obispo, Calif. by OptiSolar to supply power to California utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
Hong Kong-based China Technology Development Group entered the solar market in 2007 with a focus on manufacturing tin oxide glass plates for use as substrates for amorphous silicon thin-film solar cells. In September it announced the opening of a factory expected to build enough of the plates to supply 20 megawatts to 30 megawatts of thin-film cells by 2009.
Given China's meager installations of photovoltaic solar power plants so far, China Technology Development Group and other Chinese solar companies like Suntech Power Holdings, China Sunergy and Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. have so far focused on exporting products to the rest of the world.
A Worldwatch Institute report released in May said that solar photovoltaic power projects within China remain in their infancy compared to Japan, Germany and the United States, with most of the estimated 20 megawatts of generation capacity installed in 2007 being used for remote, off-grid applications.
Earlier this month, an experimental, 166-megawatt grid-connected solar photovoltaic power project started construction in the town of Chilin in southwestern China, People's Daily Online reported. That project is expected to cost 9.1 billion Yuan ($1.3 billion).
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Datang's Yunnan Subsidiary to Build 20MW Solar Power Station
The Yunnan Branch of China Datang Corporation plans to build an on-grid photovoltaic solar power plant with first-phase annual capacity of 20MW in Yunnan's Binchuan county. The subsidiary will be the third company to construct a large-scale on-grid photovoltaic solar station in Yunnan.
Vestas Receives Chinese Order for 116 Wind Turbines
Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has received an order from China Guangdong Nuclear Wind Power Company for the delivery of 116 of its 850kW V52 wind turbines, bringing the total capacity of V52 wind turbines sold to the company to 500MW.
The agreement includes supply of the turbines, a VestasOnline Business supervisory control and data acquisition solution and a two-year maintenance and service agreement.
Lars Andersen, Vestas China managing director, said: "This latest sale, the eighth order from China Guangdong Nuclear Wind Power in the last 12 months, means that Vestas is now one of the largest single suppliers of wind turbines to the company."
The agreement includes supply of the turbines, a VestasOnline Business supervisory control and data acquisition solution and a two-year maintenance and service agreement.
Lars Andersen, Vestas China managing director, said: "This latest sale, the eighth order from China Guangdong Nuclear Wind Power in the last 12 months, means that Vestas is now one of the largest single suppliers of wind turbines to the company."
Power Company China Datang Exceeds 2GW of Wind Capacity
Beijing-based power company China Datang Corporation (601991.SH, 991.HK) began producing electricity in a 49.5MW wind project in Xilinhaote, Inner Mongolia on December 23, to bring the company's total wind capacity to 2.03GW. China Datang has realized 247.5MW of the 346.5MW total capacity of its Inner Mongolia wind projects.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Ningxia Yangguang Silicon Will Begin Polysilicon Mass Production in March 2009
2008 December 25th, Ningxia Yangguang Silicon held the ceremony to celebrate the successful release of their polysilicon product.
Their first furnace polysilicon was released on December 23rd with polysilicon purity over 99.99999% and qualified for the solar cell production. The first phase polyslicon project has production capacity of 1,500 metric tons, and the total production capacity will reach 4,500 metric tons.
The first phase polysilicon project was launched on 2007 August 28th, began the production adjustment in 2008 November, and will begin the mass production in 2009 March.
Their first furnace polysilicon was released on December 23rd with polysilicon purity over 99.99999% and qualified for the solar cell production. The first phase polyslicon project has production capacity of 1,500 metric tons, and the total production capacity will reach 4,500 metric tons.
The first phase polysilicon project was launched on 2007 August 28th, began the production adjustment in 2008 November, and will begin the mass production in 2009 March.
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