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China Economy @CE_ChinaEconomyNEWS RELEASE 17-JAN-2020
Thousand-ton scale demonstration of solar fuel synthesis starts operation in Lanzhou, China
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Equipment for CO2 hydrogenation to produce methanol. CREDIT: DICP
The world's first demonstration project for direct solar fuel synthesis started operation in Lanzhou, China on Jan. 17, 2020. The project represents that China now takes the first step in the world for industrial production of liquid fuels from solar energy.
Overall, the project converts carbon dioxide, water and solar energy into transportable liquid fuels such as methanol by taking advantages of three technological units: solar photovoltaics to generate electricity; electrolyzer to split water producing hydrogen; and CO2 hydrogenation to produce methanol in the end.
The project is based on the advanced technologies of electrocatalytic water splitting and CO2 hydrogenation developed by Prof. LI Can's team in the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Prof. LI's team developed new type of electrocatyalysts for electrocatalytic water splitting, which reduces the energy consumption to 4.0-4.2 Kwh/Nm3-H2 for large scale hydrogen production at a rate of 1000 Nm3-H2/h, which is the highest energy conversion efficiency reported so far for the large-scale alkaline water electrolysis.
Prof. LI's team also developed an efficient ZnO-ZrO2 solid solution bimetallic oxide catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. This catalyst can achieve excellent performance in CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. The methanol selectivity is over 90% for a single pass in the fixed-bed reaction process, and the performance loss was less than 3% after 3,000 hours of operation under industrial conditions.
The methanol produced by such type of PV-E-C (photovoltaic-electrolyzer-catalysis) process is a true kind of "green methanol." Unlike the methanol production from coal or natural gas which emits CO2, the green methanol as a liquid fuel result in zero carbon emission taking account of carbon footprint.
The methanol produced in the PV-E-C process has more than 10% solar energy conversion efficiency, which is far superior to ca. 1% of solar energy conversion efficiency by natural photosynthesis of the majority plants. Because the green methanol is produced using CO2 and H2O as the initial feed stocks and solar energy as the power source, this PV-E-C process hence can be considered as a truly approach for "artificial photosynthesis of solar fuels" in large scale.
The green solar methanol production demonstrated in Lanzhou is a revolutionary step toward that combining carbon capture, storage and utilization (CCSU) to produce transportable liquid fuels. It may serve as a model and practical process in energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, since such technology is applicable to any renewable energy.
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World's first industrial test facility to produce methanol from carbon dioxide and hydrogenation, with an annual output of 5,000 tons, was in stable trial operation and had passed technical assessment. It is a solution to large-scale generation of carbon dioxide in China.
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With #EnergyChina as the EPC contractor, Fuyuan 1×30 MW Biomass Cogeneration Project is located in Heilongjiang, China's northernmost province. It involves a 130t/h high-temperature and high-pressure steam boiler, and a 30MW high-temperature and high-pressure turbine generator.
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With #EnergyChina as the EPC contractor, Fuyuan 1×30 MW Biomass Cogeneration Project is located in Heilongjiang, China's northernmost province. It involves a 130t/h high-temperature and high-pressure steam boiler, and a 30MW high-temperature and high-pressure turbine generator.
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China Gezhouba Group, a subsidiary of #EnergyChina, signed an EPC contract with Trading Construction Works Organization for the Ca Mau Wind Power Plant Project on Nov. 11th. With a capacity of 350MW, it will be the largest intertidal wind project and wind power project in Vietnam
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China Gezhouba Group, a subsidiary of #EnergyChina, signed an EPC contract with Trading Construction Works Organization for the Ca Mau Wind Power Plant Project on Nov. 11th. With a capacity of 350MW, it will be the largest intertidal wind project and wind power project in Vietnam
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#BetterEnergyBetterFuture Jointly constructed by China Gezhouba Group, a subsidiary of #EnergyChina, the lower reservoir of Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station officially began storing water. With an installed capacity of 3,600 MW, the project has been under construction from May 2013, and will be the largest pumped-storage power station in the world after completion. Moreover, every year, it will store 8.8 billion kWh of excess electricity, generate 6.612 billion kWh of power, save 480,800 tons of coal and reduce 1.2 million tons of carbon emissions (equivalent to more than 160 square kilometers of afforestation). Click on the video below to know more information of the project!
#BetterEnergyBetterFuture Jointly constructed by China Gezhouba Group, a subsidiary of #EnergyChina, the lower reservoir of Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station officially began storing water. With an installed capacity of 3,600 MW, the project has been under construction from May 2013, and will be the largest pumped-storage power station in the world after completion. Moreover, every year, it will store 8.8 billion kWh of excess electricity, generate 6.612 billion kWh of power, save 480,800 tons of coal and reduce 1.2 million tons of carbon emissions (equivalent to more than 160 square kilometers of afforestation). Click on the video below to know more information of the project!
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The Three Gorges Power Station Sets a World Record
19 Nov 2020 by World-Energy
At 8:20 on November 15, the Three Gorges Power Station, the world's largest hydropower station, reported victory! Under the premise of giving full play to the huge comprehensive benefits of flood control, shipping, and water resources utilization, the Three Gorges Project has produced 10.31 billion kWh of clean electricity in 2020, breaking the previous Itaipu Hydropower Station in South America created and maintained 103.098 billion in 2016. The world record for the annual power generation capacity of a single hydropower station in kWh.
19 Nov 2020 by World-Energy
At 8:20 on November 15, the Three Gorges Power Station, the world's largest hydropower station, reported victory! Under the premise of giving full play to the huge comprehensive benefits of flood control, shipping, and water resources utilization, the Three Gorges Project has produced 10.31 billion kWh of clean electricity in 2020, breaking the previous Itaipu Hydropower Station in South America created and maintained 103.098 billion in 2016. The world record for the annual power generation capacity of a single hydropower station in kWh.
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China's 1st 100% domestically developed and manufactured million-kilowatt distributed control system was put into operation at Yuhuan Power Plant, E China’s Zhejiang. Serving as the “brain” for thermal power plants, this system is equipped with home-made chips and control system.
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China's 1st 100% domestically developed and manufactured million-kilowatt distributed control system was put into operation at Yuhuan Power Plant, E China’s Zhejiang. Serving as the “brain” for thermal power plants, this system is equipped with home-made chips and control system.
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The concrete pouring in the construction of the first batch of Baihetan Hydropower Station's dams has been completed. The hydropower station is situated at the juncture of southwest China's Sichuan Province and Yunnan Province. The dams are the core structure of the project for flood control and discharge. The highest of the arch dams towers 289 meters.
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China to build historic Yarlung Zangbo River hydropower project in Tibet
By Shan Jie and Lin Xiaoyi Source: Global Times Published: 2020/11/29 20:19:33
Aerial photo taken on June 27, 2020 shows a shelter forest along the Yarlung Zangbo River in Shannan, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)
China will build a hydropower project on the Yarlung Zangbo River, one of the major waters in Asia that also passes through India and Bangladesh, and the head of the involved company said that the project could serve to maintain water resources and domestic security.
China will "implement hydropower exploitation in the downstream of the Yarlung Zangbo River," and this was clearly put forward in the proposals for formulating the country's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) and its long-term goals through 2035 made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Yan Zhiyong, chairman of the Power Construction Corp of China, or POWERCHINA, said at a conference on Thursday, according to an article on the WeChat account of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China on Sunday.
"There is no parallel in history… it will be a historic opportunity for the Chinese hydropower industry," Yan told a conference to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the China Society for Hydropower Engineering.
According to the report, the mainstream of the Yarlung Zangbo River has the richest water resources in Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, about 80 million kilowatt hours (kWh), while the 50-kilometer section of the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon has 70 million kWh that could be developed with a 2,000-meter drop, which equals more than three Three Gorges power stations.
Tibet has about 200 million kWh of water resources, accounting for 30 percent of the total in China.
Yan said that the hydropower exploitation of the Yarlung Zangbo River downstream is more than a hydropower project. It is also meaningful for the environment, national security, living standards, energy and international cooperation.
According to Yan, the 60 million kWh hydropower exploitation at the downstream of the Yarlung Zangbo River could provide 300 billion kWh of clean, renewable and zero-carbon electricity annually. The project will play a significant role in realizing China's goal of reaching a carbon emissions peak before 2030 and carbon neutrality in 2060.
"It is a project for national security, including water resources and domestic security," the POWERCHINA chairman said, noting that the project will also smooth cooperation with South Asia.
The hydropower station could generate income of 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) annually for the Tibet Autonomous Region, he said.
POWERCHINA on October 16 signed a strategic cooperation agreement covering the 14th Five-Year Plan with the Tibet Autonomous Region and held meetings with the region's Party secretary Wu Yingjie and regional government chairman Qizhala, according to POWERCHINA's official website.
Lin Boqiang, director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University, told the Global Times that with the construction experience of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station, the Baihetan Hydropower Station and other huge hydropower projects in which many world-class technological and planning problems were solved, China has developed mature and advanced operational capacities for complex issues in building hydropower stations such as technology standards and civilian resettlement and relocation.
The Three Gorges Hydropower Station project eventually relocated 1.4 million people, according to the Xinhua News Agency. In Southwest China's Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, a total of 89,021 people will be resettled to build the Baihetan Hydropower Station.
Lin stressed that hydropower projects on cross-border rivers cannot be developed without communication and cooperation between upstream and downstream countries. The hydropower development of the Yarlung Zangbo River will provide more opportunities for cooperation between China and South Asian countries, which can learn from the mode of the Lancang-Mekong cooperation mechanism, through dialogue and establishment of cooperation mechanisms to promote the comprehensive utilization and development of water resources.
Speculations about China planning to build a "super hydropower station" in Medog county, where the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon is located, have circulated for years. Medog, with a population of about 14,000, was China's last county to be connected to the outside world with a highway.
By Shan Jie and Lin Xiaoyi Source: Global Times Published: 2020/11/29 20:19:33
China will build a hydropower project on the Yarlung Zangbo River, one of the major waters in Asia that also passes through India and Bangladesh, and the head of the involved company said that the project could serve to maintain water resources and domestic security.
China will "implement hydropower exploitation in the downstream of the Yarlung Zangbo River," and this was clearly put forward in the proposals for formulating the country's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) and its long-term goals through 2035 made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Yan Zhiyong, chairman of the Power Construction Corp of China, or POWERCHINA, said at a conference on Thursday, according to an article on the WeChat account of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China on Sunday.
"There is no parallel in history… it will be a historic opportunity for the Chinese hydropower industry," Yan told a conference to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the China Society for Hydropower Engineering.
According to the report, the mainstream of the Yarlung Zangbo River has the richest water resources in Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, about 80 million kilowatt hours (kWh), while the 50-kilometer section of the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon has 70 million kWh that could be developed with a 2,000-meter drop, which equals more than three Three Gorges power stations.
Tibet has about 200 million kWh of water resources, accounting for 30 percent of the total in China.
Yan said that the hydropower exploitation of the Yarlung Zangbo River downstream is more than a hydropower project. It is also meaningful for the environment, national security, living standards, energy and international cooperation.
According to Yan, the 60 million kWh hydropower exploitation at the downstream of the Yarlung Zangbo River could provide 300 billion kWh of clean, renewable and zero-carbon electricity annually. The project will play a significant role in realizing China's goal of reaching a carbon emissions peak before 2030 and carbon neutrality in 2060.
"It is a project for national security, including water resources and domestic security," the POWERCHINA chairman said, noting that the project will also smooth cooperation with South Asia.
The hydropower station could generate income of 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) annually for the Tibet Autonomous Region, he said.
POWERCHINA on October 16 signed a strategic cooperation agreement covering the 14th Five-Year Plan with the Tibet Autonomous Region and held meetings with the region's Party secretary Wu Yingjie and regional government chairman Qizhala, according to POWERCHINA's official website.
Lin Boqiang, director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University, told the Global Times that with the construction experience of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station, the Baihetan Hydropower Station and other huge hydropower projects in which many world-class technological and planning problems were solved, China has developed mature and advanced operational capacities for complex issues in building hydropower stations such as technology standards and civilian resettlement and relocation.
The Three Gorges Hydropower Station project eventually relocated 1.4 million people, according to the Xinhua News Agency. In Southwest China's Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, a total of 89,021 people will be resettled to build the Baihetan Hydropower Station.
Lin stressed that hydropower projects on cross-border rivers cannot be developed without communication and cooperation between upstream and downstream countries. The hydropower development of the Yarlung Zangbo River will provide more opportunities for cooperation between China and South Asian countries, which can learn from the mode of the Lancang-Mekong cooperation mechanism, through dialogue and establishment of cooperation mechanisms to promote the comprehensive utilization and development of water resources.
Speculations about China planning to build a "super hydropower station" in Medog county, where the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon is located, have circulated for years. Medog, with a population of about 14,000, was China's last county to be connected to the outside world with a highway.
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With #EnergyChina as the EPC contractor, the splicing work of Thailand’s Hydro-Floating Solar Hybrid Project has been started. With a planned installed capacity of 58.5 MW, it is the world's largest hydro-floating solar hybrid project and EGAT's first project of this kind.
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With #EnergyChina as the EPC contractor, the splicing work of Thailand’s Hydro-Floating Solar Hybrid Project has been started. With a planned installed capacity of 58.5 MW, it is the world's largest hydro-floating solar hybrid project and EGAT's first project of this kind.
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China Gezhouba Group, a subsidiary of #EnergyChina, signed two EPC contracts with Brazil‘s Maturati for a 638MW photovoltaic project and a 231MW wind farm project in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. #BetterEnergyBetterFuture
4:48 PM · Jan 12, 2021
China Gezhouba Group, a subsidiary of #EnergyChina, signed two EPC contracts with Brazil‘s Maturati for a 638MW photovoltaic project and a 231MW wind farm project in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. #BetterEnergyBetterFuture
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Longi Green Energy to Spend USD1.23 Billion on 15 GW Solar Cell Project in China
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(Yicai Global) Jan. 19 -- Longi Green Energy Technology plans to invest about CNY8 billion (USD1.23 billion) on a 15-gigawatt solar cell project in China to increase its capacity to make high-efficiency monocrystalline cells.
A project firm belonging to the Chinese solar wafer giant will build the new plant, which is expected to start operating next year, in Xixian New Area in Shaanxi province, Longi said in a statement late yesterday after signing a deal with the local government the same day.
The project firm will lease workshops, warehouses and ancillary facilities in the economic development zone; buy, install and debug manufacturing equipment; and manage production and operations once the project is up and running.
Within a year of its launch, the partners will also embark on a 15 GW monocrystalline solar cell module project, Xi’an-based Longi added.
Longi’s monocrystalline silicon wafer production capacity is about half of the global total. The company is also expanding its business to downstream solar cells, solar modules, and even solar power plants.
Longi aims to ensure that its annual output capacity of silicon wafers exceeds 75 GW and that of solar modules tops 30 GW by the end of this year, founder Li Zhenguo said last July.
Hillhouse Capital announced last month that it will pay CNY15.84 billion (USD2.44 billion) for 226 million Longi shares from persons acting in concert with major shareholders of the company, giving it a 6 percent stake.
Shares of Longi [SHA: 601012] closed 0.7 percent lower today at CNY102.50 (USD15.82), after fluctuation earlier in the day. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index was off 0.8 percent.
A project firm belonging to the Chinese solar wafer giant will build the new plant, which is expected to start operating next year, in Xixian New Area in Shaanxi province, Longi said in a statement late yesterday after signing a deal with the local government the same day.
The project firm will lease workshops, warehouses and ancillary facilities in the economic development zone; buy, install and debug manufacturing equipment; and manage production and operations once the project is up and running.
Within a year of its launch, the partners will also embark on a 15 GW monocrystalline solar cell module project, Xi’an-based Longi added.
Longi’s monocrystalline silicon wafer production capacity is about half of the global total. The company is also expanding its business to downstream solar cells, solar modules, and even solar power plants.
Longi aims to ensure that its annual output capacity of silicon wafers exceeds 75 GW and that of solar modules tops 30 GW by the end of this year, founder Li Zhenguo said last July.
Hillhouse Capital announced last month that it will pay CNY15.84 billion (USD2.44 billion) for 226 million Longi shares from persons acting in concert with major shareholders of the company, giving it a 6 percent stake.
Shares of Longi [SHA: 601012] closed 0.7 percent lower today at CNY102.50 (USD15.82), after fluctuation earlier in the day. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index was off 0.8 percent.
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The first&third phases of Chinese-constructed Loma Blanca Wind Power Projects officially launched commercial operation on Friday in #Argentina. The completion of all five projects is expected to provide 1.6 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity for about 360,000 households.
3:00 PM · Jan 25, 2021
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The first&third phases of Chinese-constructed Loma Blanca Wind Power Projects officially launched commercial operation on Friday in #Argentina. The completion of all five projects is expected to provide 1.6 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity for about 360,000 households.
3:00 PM · Jan 25, 2021
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Powerful wind turbine rolls off production line in central China
Source: Xinhua| 2021-02-23 19:26:49|Editor: huaxia
CHANGSHA, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- A powerful wind turbine with an annual power generation capacity of 58 GWh was rolled off its production line on Tuesday in the city of Zhuzhou, central China's Hunan Province.
After it is installed, the 12-MW semi-direct drive wind turbine with a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) will be able to meet the annual electricity demand of 145,000 households and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 27,550 tonnes, equivalent to the annual emissions of 18,000 cars, according to its developer CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Co., Ltd.
The wind turbine has adopted a number of innovative technologies, including a structural design that ensures its normal operation in deep waters and under extreme weather conditions, and a new type of ventilation structure that allows its full power range to operate efficiently, said Che Sanhong, chief engineer of a CRRC Zhuzhou Electric branch.
The new wind turbine -- the most powerful wind turbine to be exported by China -- will be shipped to the European market in bulk before the end of this year.
CRRC Zhuzhou Electric manufactures various types of wind turbines with a total annual installed capacity of 20 GW. Its products are exported to 18 countries and regions, including those in Europe and North America.
Source: Xinhua| 2021-02-23 19:26:49|Editor: huaxia
CHANGSHA, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- A powerful wind turbine with an annual power generation capacity of 58 GWh was rolled off its production line on Tuesday in the city of Zhuzhou, central China's Hunan Province.
After it is installed, the 12-MW semi-direct drive wind turbine with a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) will be able to meet the annual electricity demand of 145,000 households and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 27,550 tonnes, equivalent to the annual emissions of 18,000 cars, according to its developer CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Co., Ltd.
The wind turbine has adopted a number of innovative technologies, including a structural design that ensures its normal operation in deep waters and under extreme weather conditions, and a new type of ventilation structure that allows its full power range to operate efficiently, said Che Sanhong, chief engineer of a CRRC Zhuzhou Electric branch.
The new wind turbine -- the most powerful wind turbine to be exported by China -- will be shipped to the European market in bulk before the end of this year.
CRRC Zhuzhou Electric manufactures various types of wind turbines with a total annual installed capacity of 20 GW. Its products are exported to 18 countries and regions, including those in Europe and North America.
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(Yicai Global) Feb. 24 -- Shares of Guangdong province-based Electric Power Development rose after the Chinese electric utility said that it will invest CNY10.5 billion (USD1.6 billion) in photovoltaic and wind power projects in western China over the next three years.
EPD's stock price [SHE:000539] was 3.3 percent up at CNY3.75 (58 US dollar cents) in the afternoon after jumping as much as 7.7 percent earlier.
The company penned a cooperation framework agreement with the city of Tumxuk in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, it said in a statement yesterday. The exact location of the plants will be chosen within three months and the firm will set up project companies to oversee construction.
EPD will invest almost CNY6.8 billion (USD1.1 billion) to build a solar power station with a total installed capacity of 1.5 million kilowatts. It also plans to invest nearly CNY3.8 billion in a wind power plant with a capacity of 500,000 kW, according to the agreement.
Tumxuk is rich in solar and wind power resources, according to EPD. The city is also an important stop along the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway that is still under construction, it added.
