Qinghai at the forefront of solar power development
September 27, 2012 Category Alternative energy, Environment
At the end of last year, Qinghai province’s total on-grid solar power capacity was 1,003 MW, accounting for 37% of China total of around 2,700 MW. By the end of 2015, Qinghai plans to boost the installed generating capacity of solar electricity to more than 4,000 MW, almost 1.5 times the current national capacity. This explosive growth happened in just one year, as by the end of May last year, there was only 50 MW of installed capacity in Qinghai. In May 2011, the Qinghai government promised PV station developers CNY1.15 per kilowatt-hour for electricity supplied by photovoltaic projects that became operational before September 30, much higher than the CNY0.4-0.5 paid for coal-fired electricity. “Before the move, more than 20 developers had signed project agreements. But as there was no guidance price, none of them dared to start construction,” said a local industry observer. Huanghe Hydropower’s project is the most ambitious. Located in Golmud, the center of Qinghai’s PV industry, the CNY3.2 billion project is the world’s largest PV farm measured by installed capacity and floor space. By the end of last year, it had been integrated into the main grid and started supplying electricity. PV power, with all its prospects, still faces a large obstacle — the power grid’s ability to assimilate it. In 2011, only half of China’s 2,700 MW solar power capacity was integrated into the power grid.
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