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The 500 MW Phase 1 of Shenzhen Energy's 2 GW solar PV + storage facility connected to the grid in China last week. This site is in the desert outside of Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang. The project also includes 125 MW/500MWh of battery storage. Hard to appreciate the scale of a 500 MW solar PV facility until you see it like this. When fully built, the project will occupy 78,000 mu (or about 52 sq km) of prime Kashgar desert.
You are switching from MW (power) to MWh (energy) and back to MW. Can you correct this. Otherwise it’s extremely frustrating for people who want to do additional calculations and analysis.
Truly impressive but how much more is produced from coal in the last few years so we see the net effect on carbon emissions
California recently commissioned an 875MW DC / 3287 MWh storage facility in the high desert at Edwards costing $2 billion. Fixing sold PV electricity at $40/MWh and assuming different interest rates and average DOD, one can work out the cost per MWh of electricity, both for battery delivery and for overall costs. When excess PV electricity is available, we can expect the $40/MWh will go down and battery delivered costs go up. DC-AC conversion, decay over time, round trip charging efficiency, .... all need to be taken into account. It doesn't look cheap to me, but that this the price of being green.
Sadly, when you see China's infrastructure, cities, or professionals, you immediately know to whom the future belongs. 🥺 Nothing new, China's culture was one of the most influential and dominant in the world for over a thousand years, particularly from the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) through the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). The combination of a rate cut with an inverted yield curve has historically signaled that the economy is at risk of a recession in the near future. According to the indicators, in the next six months, we will take another step down.
the second 2 GWh largest solar plant in the world, but backed with container batteries - many more needed for datacenters instead of nuclear 😉
That's a great shot. Massive desert solar really is astonishing to see David. Two weeks ago, in southern Ningxia near 中卫 I saw the 1.5GW Tengger Desert Solar PV park. It stretched right up to the horizon, and I assume beyond. I couldn't capture it from the car / atop a sand dune as clearly as this! And to think there is another 3GW one on the way... What's more, you get a great snapshot of how solar cell efficiency has come on in ~10 year comparing Tengger (2012-17) and this one being built in Kashgar... Kashgar has less favourable sunlight conditions, but still gets more bang-for-its-buck / sq km
David Fishman Holly Molly, the size of this thing
We should all welcome the decarbonisation of China's energy sector. PS 500 MW is a cumulative of new PVs in Croatia in 2024 🤷🏼♂️.
Few years ago China was arguing "Carbon Trading: Unethical, Unjust and Ineffective" ; now the largest solar and EV investment are in China and the government is happy to be pushing in the past.
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1moIt is very impressive. They do know what they do.