The photovoltaic area. [Photo provided to investordos.goinnermongolia.com.cn]
The Hanggin wind, solar, thermal, energy storage, and heat ecological management project, the largest of its kind in China, recently reached two major milestones.
On Nov 19, the first unit in the project's photovoltaic area was connected to the grid for power generation. Two days later, the No FJ03 wind turbine in the second section of the project's wind power division was also connected to the grid.
The site, located in Xini town of Hanggin Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, is a multi-energy ecological management project owned by the Inner Mongolia Energy Group. It is set to control 3,382 mu (225.47 hectares) of sandy area.
The construction site. [Photo provided to investordos.goinnermongolia.com.cn]
The project's total installed capacity is 1,700 megawatts, 1,600MW of which comes from wind power. This section will consist of 134 9MW wind turbines, 59 6.7MW wind turbines, and their supporting units.
The photovoltaic area's construction scale is 100MW on the AC side. It adopts P-type 550Wp bifacial double-glass monocrystalline photovoltaic modules with an energy storage capacity of at least 15 percent of the total.
Three 220-kilovolt booster stations will be built, collecting the power generated by the wind and photovoltaic units through 35kV collector lines. The total length of these lines will be around 1715.4 kilometers.
The photovoltaic field. [Photo/WeChat account of Nuan news]
After the project's full capacity is connected to the grid, the annual on-grid electricity generation of the wind field will be 3.45 billion kilowatt-hours, and the annual power generation of the photovoltaic field will be 198 million kWh.
Annual revenue will amount to 1.3 billion yuan ($179.14 million), with tax revenue of 200 million yuan. This project can reduce standard coal consumption by 1.43 million metric tons and carbon dioxide emissions by 3.7 million tons each year, which has significant ecological, economic, and social benefits.
