“Photovoltaic +” opens up a new track for China’s clean energy development
Among the dark blue photovoltaic panels, Mr.He slowed down and carefully checked the appearance of the panels and lines beside him. Not far away, under several rows of photovoltaic panels, sheep are grazing with their heads down.
“I raise these sheep.” 30-year-old Nashun Menghe said, “In addition to being a herdsman, I also have a job as an operation and maintenance worker here.”
This photovoltaic power station is located on the desert grassland of Sunite Right Banner, Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. It has a total installed capacity of 200,000 kilowatts and is equipped with an 85 MWh energy storage system. It will be connected to the grid for power generation in December 2022.
The photovoltaic power station covers an area of nearly 7,000 mu and rents the pastures of 2 herdsmen at an annual rent of 40 yuan per mu. More than 2,700 mu of Nashun Menghe’s pastures have been leased.
This is the photo-voltaic power station of the 200,000-kilowatt animal husbandry solar-storage comprehensive demonstration project in Sonite Right Banner, Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, taken on July 6. Published by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Guo Yujun)
“The photovoltaic panels are in the air, and the grassland under the panels still has a lot of room for use.” Guan Chao, the station manager of the photovoltaic power station, said, “We set the distance between the lowest point of the photovoltaic support and the ground at 1.5 meters, which is higher than that of ordinary photovoltaic supports. , leaving enough space for the flock of sheep to realize power generation on board and herding sheep under the board.”
Not long ago, the photovoltaic power station officially “enabled” the grazing function. It was found that the first batch of “stationed” sheep always liked to move around under the photovoltaic panels. “Because it can hide in the shade and the grass grows well there,” said Mr.He
According to industry insiders, the continuous photovoltaic panels are like a barrier covering the desert grassland, which can reduce the sunlight and strong wind in the area under the panels, reduce the evaporation of soil water, and help vegetation grow better.
“I graze sheep at the power station and feed them water once at noon. I don’t need to worry about it at other times, and it doesn’t affect my work.” Nashun Menghe said that his monthly salary is nearly 4,000 yuan, and he can still get nearly 110,000 yuan in pasture rent every year. The income is obvious. improve.
On July 6, the staff conducted inspections on the site of the 200,000-kilowatt animal husbandry solar-storage comprehensive demonstration project in Sunite Right Banner, Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Published by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Guo Yujun)
Like Nashunmenghe, there are 13 Sunit Right Banner residents engaged in operation and maintenance work here, 5 of whom are herdsmen.
Guan Chao said that photovoltaic power stations have produced more than 160 million kilowatt-hours of green electricity, which is transmitted to many places in Inner Mongolia through Mengxi Power Grid, one of China’s three major power grids.
The “photovoltaic + grazing + energy storage” project in Sunit Right Banner is a microcosm of the cross-border integration of photovoltaic power generation and other industries in China. The “14th Five-Year Plan for Renewable Energy Development” proposes to actively promote the “photovoltaic +” comprehensive utilization action, and encourage composite development models such as agriculture (animal husbandry) solar complementarity and fishery solar complementarity. China’s Shanxi, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Hubei, Zhejiang and other places have actively developed “photovoltaic +” projects according to local conditions, and strived to promote the value-added utilization of three-dimensional space of photovoltaic power plants.
Analysts believe that the “photovoltaic +” model not only promotes the development of clean energy, but also explores the integrated development of clean energy, rural revitalization, and ecological protection, further empowers “green people’s livelihood”, and opens up a new track for the high-quality development of clean energy.
At present, Inner Mongolia is continuing to increase the development of clean energy, and the “photovoltaic +” comprehensive utilization project is also accelerating the development. At present, the installed capacity of new energy in Inner Mongolia is close to 70 million kilowatts, and the scale of construction and proposed construction during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period reaches 150 million kilowatts.
Photovoltaic power generation base photographed on March 3 in Dalat Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Beh
As one of the provinces with the most concentrated desertification and sandy land in China, Inner Mongolia is actively promoting the construction of “photovoltaic + ecological governance” and “photovoltaic + ecological restoration” projects and bases while developing agricultural (animal husbandry) solar complementary projects.
Walking into the photovoltaic leader base in Dalat Banner, Ordos City, the lush vegetation comes into view. In the herb planting area under the 5,000 mu of photovoltaic panels, rows of astragalus have become “living sand barriers” for wind and sand fixation.
This desert centralized photovoltaic power generation base is located in Chaideng Gacha, Zhaojun Town, Dalat Banner, covering an area of 50,000 mu, with a total installed capacity of 1 million kilowatts, and an annual green power generation of about 2 billion kWh, which is equivalent to saving 680,000 tons of standard coal. , reducing 1.65 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Zhang Bing, director of the Power and New Energy Office of the Energy Bureau of Dalat Banner, said that the base has developed 36,000 mu of red dates, astragalus, and amorpha, and has developed more than 1,000 beef cattle through on-board power generation, off-board planting, and inter-field breeding. It realizes the deep integration of photovoltaic industry and planting and breeding industry.