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Re: China anuncia la construcción de una central fotovoltaica de 100 megawatios

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por Redaccion el 01 Feb, 2007 - 06:36 PM
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"Reports of plans for a 100 MW Chinese solar system »a mistake«

January, 2007: Two separate sources say that reports from China's Gansu province of plans to build a 100 MW PV installation, hailed as the world's largest solar power station, are incorrect.

The only possible large-scale PV system, about one-tenth the size, is still in the feasibility stage.

A Nov. 21 story from the Xinhua News Agency spread throughout the Internet claimed that the northwestern Gansu city of Dunhuang had signed a letter of intent with a Beijing company, Zhonghao New Energy Investment Co. Ltd., for the 6.03 billion CNY ($771 million) system with a construction time of five years on an area of 31,200 m². Despite the detailed nature of the report, Ma Shenghong, vice director for renewable energy training at the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and one of China‘s top PV experts, says the information appears to be an exaggeration. Ma, who had just returned from an early-December trip to the province, says the renewable energy head of the Gansu Development and Reform Commission characterized the report as »a mistake probably made by reporters.« Instead, Ma says he was informed that the province has proposed a 10 MW pilot project in Dunhuang for the 11th five-year plan through 2010 that still has to be approved by the state council.

This may refer to an 8 MW desert-based very large-scale PV (VSL-PV) project in Dunhuang that the International Energy Agency‘s Photovoltaic Power Systems (IEA-PVPS) has been pushing since its Task 8 group published a book called Energy from the Desert in 2003 (see PI 9/2003, p. 36). The idea was backed by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) as the first pilot project in its Great Desert Solar PV Programme that foresaw the development of 30 GW of PV capacity by 2020 in China.

Indeed, Shi Lishan, director of renewable energy at the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), confirms that his agency has been discussing the 8 MW project, which would include a mixture of PV technologies, but that it is still in the feasibility stage with no definite target for a decision on whether to proceed. When asked about the report of a 100 MW PV system, he laughs. »Maybe some people or some expert wished to do this,« Shi says, »because in China there are a lot of deserts with good insolation.« But, as far as he is concerned, »there is nothing official.« The only project under construction is a 200 kW concentrating PV tracking system in Mongolia, the province just to the north of Gansu, which should be finished in mid-2007, says Shi.

Another possibility is that the announcement of a 100 MW PV system is part of a public relations ploy by the government to steer international scrutiny away from its development of coal-fired plants and make it appear as though China is promoting the pursuit of alternative forms of energy. While a renewable energy law went into effect at the start of 2006, so far no parliamentary action on what is now a 16-percent target of renewable energy electricity generation by 2020 has been taken to implement it. And even when finalized, as Shi told PHOTON International earlier, the law will most likely only include a feed-in tariff for wind and biomass projects, not PV (see PI 1/2006, p. 38)."

William P. Hirshman