Reported from CSPPLAZA: September 19, POWERCHNIA Gonghe 50MW CSP Project was successfully connected to the grid. Which is the forth large scale CSP projects in China, With this, the installed capacity of large commercial CSP projects in China will reach 250MW. totally installed capacity will reach 294.3MW.     

POWERCHNIA Gonghe 50MW CSP Project is one of the first 20 national CSP demonstration projects. It covers an area of 2.12 square kilometers. It uses nearly 30,000 surface 20 square meters heliostat with a central Tower of 210 meters. 

Located in Hainan State Ecological Solar Power Park of Qinghai Province, the project has an installed capacity of 50MW and a 6 hours molten salt heat storage system. The project completed the pre-feasibility study in August 2015. In September 2015, it registered Gonghe Northwest Hydropower And Solar Thermal Power Generation Co., Ltd. as the project’s company. It was filed on October 28, 2015 and submitted to the National Demonstration Project in November 2015. It was officially selected as the demonstration project on September 13, 2016.

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