This page provides information on Power China Qinghai Gonghe - 50MW Tower CSP project, a concentrating solar power (CSP) project, with data organized by background, participants, and power plant configuration.
This page provides information on SUPCON Delingha 50 MW Tower CSP project, a concentrating solar power (CSP) project, with data organized by background, participants, and power plant configuration.
Three of these were Tower, and all at 50 MW: LuNeng Haixi and Power China Qinghai Gonghe in Qinghai, and in Xinjiang, CEEC/ Hami which pioneered another SolarPACES Innovation Award-winner, the Stellio heliostat. The fourth was Lanzhou’s 50 MW Fresnel at Daching.
The first 100 MW CSP projects under the 1 GW Solar Park rule were under construction in 2023. These three were in three CSP technologies; Fresnel, Tower, and a new technology researched globally and tested at the Masdar Institute Solar Platform in the UAE: Beam-down.
Most CSP in China is Tower. In a new approach to advancing a high percent of renewable energy on the grid without falling back on gas backup, China set a rule that required 100 MW CSP project in each 1 GW renewable energy park. As of 2023, 30 CSP projects are in development as a result.
Only three could meet the very tight deadline, TeraSolar (marketing Fresnel as industrial solar heat) in Hebei Province, at 15 MW, Cosin Solar’s 50 MW Tower and Shouhang’s 50 MW Tough CSP for CGN at Delingha. Another four were connected in 2019.