China CSP Demonstration Projects

China CSP Demonstration Projects Data provided and use granted by Catherine Wu, CSPPLAZA Note: The information given is based on sources we believe reliable, but we do not guarantee its accuracy.

Klaus Pottler 1 28 Sept. 2016 www.cspservices.de





1 Delingha 50MW Molten Salt Tower

Location of project: Delingha, Qinghai

DNI: 1976 kWh/m²/yr

Project owner: Qinghai Supcon Solar Technology Delingha Co., Ltd.

Project filing: completed

Route of technology: molten salt tower, 6 hours of molten salt thermal storage

Source of technology: Zhejiang Supcon Solar technology Co., Ltd.

System conversion efficiency: 18% (the design point efficiency)

Floor space: about 2.4 km²

Height of tower: about 180 m

Lighting area: about 550,000 m²

Size of heliostat: 20 m²

Designed generating capacity: 136 million kWh

Current situation: The preliminary design of the whole plant has been finished, and relevant process packages

have been all set.

Comment: Supcon Delingha 10MW Tower plant joined the national grid officially in July 5th, 2013. In

August 20th, 2016, the molten salt reconstruction project based on this 10MW project

realized one-time whole-process functioning and joined the national grid successfully.

2 Dunhuang 100MW Molten Salt

Location of project: Dunhuang, Gansu

DNI: 2000kWh/m²/yr

Project owner: Shouhang IHW Resources Saving Technology Co., Ltd.

Route of technology: molten salt, 11 hours of molten salt thermal storage

Source of technology: Shouhang IHW Resources Saving Technology Co., Ltd.


Height of tower: 180 m


Total investment: ￥304 million, including ￥303.025 million of construction

investment and ￥9,750,000 of initial working capital

Financing channel: The owner has raised ￥4.6 billion by way of private

placement, including ￥3.04 billion used for the construction

of the project

Project purchasing: Steam turbine: GE/Siemens/MAN (planned)

Molten salt pump: Moret/Flowserve (planned)

Other major equipment, such as heliostat, thermal absorber

and air cooling system will all be chosen among home

products



Current situation: The opening ceremony of this project was held on November 9th, 2015. And the preliminary

work has been finished completely. The former 10MW demonstration project with a 15-hour

molten salt thermal storage system started construction in August 2014, and is expected to go

into operation in October of this year.

Comment: The Reply from Jiuquan Energy Bureau to the altered technical proposal on Dunhuang

2X50MW Molten Salt Tower CSP Project of Dunhuang Shouhang IHW Resources Saving

Technology Co., Ltd., released on October 30th, 2015, agreed this altered technical proposal,

changing to 100MW single-tower molten salt tower CSP project, which also changed the

capacity of this project to 100MW in the final list.

3 Qinghai Gonghe 50MW Molten Salt Tower

Location of project: Gonghe County, Hainan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai

DNI: about 1900 kWh/m²/yr

Project owner: Northwest Institute of Survey and Design of China

Hydropower Consulting Group

Feasibility study institute: Northwest Institute of Survey and Design


Source of technology: Zhejiang Supcon Solar Technology Co., Ltd. (planned)


Height of tower: 171 m

Lighting area: 516,000 m²


Amount of heliostats: 25795

Comment: In April 2014, the Proposal about Starting the Preliminary Work of Qinghai Gonghe CSP

Project was submitted to People’s Government of Qinghai Gonghe. In September 2014, the

Proposal was agreed. In October 28th, 2015, Qinghai Development and Reform Commission

approved the project put on record.

Development idea: Placing independent design and home equipment first, and foreign consulting agencies second

4 Hami 50MW

Location of project: Hami, Xinjiang


Project owner: Northwest Electric Power Design Institute of China

Power Engineering Consulting Group

Feasibility study institute: Northwest Electric Power Design Institute


Source of technology: Zhejiang Supcon Solar Technology Co., Ltd. (planned)

Project filing: underway



Comment: In July 20th, 2016, the opening meeting for preparation was held in Beijing. In August 12th,

the review on the feasibility study report was finished. In August 23th, the Construction Mode

Seminar was held in Xian. The reported capacity of this project when it applying for the

demonstration project is 2X50MW. In the end, one 50MW unit was selected into the final list

of the demonstration projects.

5 Delingha Qinghai 135MW DSG Tower



Project owner: Huanghe Hydropower Development Co., Ltd.

Feasibility study institute: Northwest Electric Power Design Institute

EPC: Shanghai Electric Brightsource Solar Energy Co., Ltd.

Route of technology: DSG Tower, 3.7 hours of molten salt thermal storage

Source of technology: Brightsource


Comment: This project has the biggest capacity among the first batch demonstration projects. The EPC

of the project is obtained by Shanghai Electric Brightsource Solar Energy Co., Ltd, which is a

joint venture composed of Brightsource and Shanghai Electric. It adopts the DSG technique,

which yields superheated steam directly and stores thermal energy through transferring heat

from steam to molten salt.

6 Golden Tower 100MW Molten Salt Tower

Location of project: Jinta, Jiuquan, Gansu


Project owner: China Three Gorges New Energy Co., Ltd

Feasibility study institute: Northwest Institute of Survey and Design


Source of technology: Shouhang IHW Resources Saving Technology Co., Ltd

Northwest Institute of Survey and Design of China

Hydropower Consulting Group (planned)


Introduction of China Three Gorges New Energy Co., Ltd: China Three Gorges New Energy Co., Ltd (TGNE) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China

Three Gorges Corporation (TGC), bearing the historical missions of developing new energy

and forging the second main business of TGC. In recent years, TGNE is vigorously

developing land wind power and PV, positively exploiting offshore wind power, steadily

enhancing small and medium hydropower business, carrying forward CSP and closely

following other renewable energy techniques such as tidal energy and biomass energy,

basically forming a business structure of mutual support and collaborative development in

four main domains, namely wind power, solar power, small hydropower and equipment

manufacturing.



7 Yumen 50MW Molten Salt Tower

Location of project: Yumen, Gansu


Project owner: Yumen Xinneng Thermal Power Co., Ltd

Route of technology: molten salt tower, beam down system with molten salt

Source of technology: Shanghai Parasol Renewable Energy Company

Jiangsu Xinchen CSP Co., Ltd

Status of project: Construction of this project is planned to start in October of

this year. The base of tower and plant will be built first.

Comment: The project adopts the unique beam down tower CSP technique. At present, there is only one

100KW demonstration system with this technique around the world. Xinchen Company

completed a 300KW beam down demonstration project in Yancheng, Jiangsu in 2015. Based

on the above demonstration project, the commercial 50MW project will start in Yumen. The

project will build some beam down towers, composing 50MW capacity together. Shanghai

Parasol and Jiangsu Xinchen have some connections. They both work on driving the

commercial application of the beam down system with molten salt.

8 Yumen 100MW Molten Salt Tower



Project owner: Beijing Guohua Electric Power Co., Ltd


Source of technology: Shouhang IHW Resources Saving Technology Co., Ltd

(planned)

Project filing: underway

Total investment: RMB3.53661 million

Comment: According to the CSP development plan for 2015-2030 drafted by Guohua Electric, it plans to

complete 1.5GW during 2015-2020, 3.5GW during 2020-2025 and 6GW during 2025-2030.

This project is the first commercial CSP plant developed by Guohua Electric.

9 Shangyi 50MW DSG Tower

Location of project: Shangyi, Zhangjiakou, Hebei


Project owner: DaHua Engineering Management(Group) Co., Ltd.

Institute of Electrical Engineering of CAS

Route of technology: DSG tower, 4 hours of molten salt thermal storage

Source of technology: Institute of Electrical Engineering of CAS

Status of project: project filing is underway



Comment: This project uses the DSG tower technique, storing thermal energy through exchanging heat

from steam to molten salt.

Introduction of project owner: DaHua Engineering Management(Group) Co., Ltd. is founded under the approval of State

Development Planning Commission(SDPC), State Science and Technology Commission and

the State Council, which is a joint stock company restructured from DaHua Energy

Technology company directly under SDPC. Possessing qualifications issued by a couple of

state commissions, DaHua has strong strength in many businesses including project

preliminary planning, designing, engineering consulting, project management(supervising),

engineering construction, EPC general contract, investment and development. DaHua will

work with Institute of Electrical Engineering of CAS to develop this project jointly.

10 Yumen 50MW Thermal Oil Trough



Project owner: Royal Tech CSP Limited

Route of technology: thermal oil parabolic trough

7 hours of molten salt thermal storage

Source of technology: Royal Tech CSP Limited

Status of project: project filing is underway

Introduction of project owner: Changzhou Royal Tech CSP Limited is devoted to CSP and development, innovation and

industry promotion in the area of distributed solar utilization. Main businesses cover high

temperature evacuated collector tube, system integration of thermal field and system of

distributed solar combined supply of cooling, heating and power. As one of the pioneers in

China CSP area, Changzhou Royal has made a major breakthrough in key component of CSP,

whose homemade high temperature evacuated collector tube is successfully applied in

overseas commercial plant for the first time. Its technique in system integration of thermal

field was ranked as international advanced level by CSP Services, an international

authoritative institution in CSP.

11 Gansu Akesai 50MW Molten Salt Trough

Location of project: Akesai, Jiuquan, Gansu

DNI: about 2056.5 kWh/m²/yr

Project owner: Shenzhen Jinfan Energy Technology Co., Ltd.

Route of technology: molten salt trough, 15 hours of molten salt thermal storage

Source of technology: Tianjin Binhai Concentrating Solar Power Investm. Co., Ltd.

Status of project: project filing has been completed.



Introduction of project owner: Tianjin Binhai Concentrating Solar Power Investment Co., Ltd. is co-funded by Shenzhen

Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd. and the government of Tianjin Binhai High-tech Zone.

Shenzhen Jinfan is the then project applying body, but the actual body has been changed to

Tianjin Binhai. Tianjin Binhai brought in the world’s leading CSP techniques, aiming to

realize localized production to reduce cost. Its ultimate goal is to build a 200MW base

equipped with a large-scale system including heat collection, thermal storage, heat exchange

and power generation and a world-class CSP R&D center. The Akesai project will rely on this

base to realize the localization of equipment.

12 Yumen East Town 50MW Thermal Oil Trough



Project owner: Rayspower Energy Group Co., Ltd.



Source of technology: Rayspower Energy Group Co., Ltd.

Introduction of project owner:

Rayspower Energy Group Co., Ltd. focuses on the business of the system integration of CSP

plant. It opened a leading reflecting mirror plant in Chengdu in June 2013. Based on this

plant, it cuts in the sun island EPC area. Through the construction of Yanqing 863 Trough

Testing project, it has accumulated integration experience in trough mirror field. Meanwhile,

it’s a new three board listed company, which, to some extent, is favorable to its financing.

13 Urat Middle Banner 100MW Thermal Oil Parabolic Trough

Location of project: Urat Middle Banner, Inner Mongolia


Project owner: Inner Mongolia Royal Tech New Energy Co., Ltd.



Source of technology: Changzhou Royal Tech Solar Thermal Equipment Co., Ltd.

Project Filing: completed

Comment: The feasibility study of this project is finished in May, 2016.

Introduction of project owner: Inner Mongolia Royal Tech New Energy Co., Ltd. is co-founded by Changzhou Royal Tech

Development Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of Royal Tech, and Nanjing Zhonghe Solar Energy

Technology Co., Ltd. in July 14th, 2015.



14 50MW Thermal Oil Parabolic Trough



Project owner: CGN Delingha Solar Energy Development Co., Ltd.



Source of technology: CGN Solar Energy Development Co., Ltd.

EPC of Sun Island: Shouhang IHW Resources Saving Technology Co., Ltd. And

Shandong Second Power Construction Company

EPC of Thermal Storage Island: Shandong Sunway Petrochemical Engineering Co., Ltd.

EPC of Conventional Island: Northwest Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd. of China


OE: Aries

Basic design: Ingeteam

Feasibility study institute: Northwest Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd. of China


Heat transfer oil: Suzhou Solutia Therminol Co., Ltd.

Molten salt: sodium nitrate (Sinkiang Nitrate Minerals Co., Ltd.) &

potassium nitrate (Shanxi Wentong Sylvite Group)

Steam turbine: Dongfang Electric Corporation

Molten salt pump: Moret pump

Oil-water heat exchanger: Harbin Turbine Company Limited

Status of project: The construction work was officially started in July 1st, 2014. Northwest Electric Power

Design Institute, EPC of Conventional Island, entered into construction phase successively in

August 2015. Shandong Sunway Petrochemical Engineering Co., Ltd., EPC of Thermal

Storage Island, signed the EPC contract with CGN side in March 1st this year and then it

started work immediately. EPC contract of Sun Island was signed officially in late August.

Now, the preparation for construction is underway.

Comment: This plant is the first commercial 50MW parabolic trough built in China.

15 Gulang 100MW Thermal Oil Parabolic Trough

Location of project: Gulang, Weiwu, Gansu


Project owner: OECEP Gansu Weiwu Solar Technology Co., Ltd



Source of technology: Changzhou Royal Tech Solar Thermal Equipment Co., Ltd.

(planned)

Status of technology: project filing is underway.



16 64MW Molten Salt Parabolic Trough

Location of project: Chabei, Zhangjiakou, Hebei


Project owner: Zhongyang Zhangjiakou Chabei

Route of technology: molten salt parabolic trough


Source of technology: Skyfuel

Status of project: Opening ceremony was held in July 2014.

Introduction of project owner: OECEP Gansu Weiwu Solar Technology Co., Ltd. is a project company established by

Beijing Guo Tou Jun An Investment Management Co., Ltd. in Zhangjiakou. Public

information shows, Guo Tou Jun An is a professional company specializing in promoting

CSP technology and projects founded under the help of State-owned Assets Supervision and

Administration Commission (SASAC) and National Development and Reform Commission

(NDRC).

Comment: Skyfuel, the technology partner and founded in 2007, innovated reflecting mirror and heat

collector in trough CSP. Its featured product is a new reflecting mirror based on the

reflectance coating technique, which uses ReflectTechPLUS as coating. Moreover, it

designed SkyTrough(R), which is a high-performance parabolic trough heat collector.

Equipped with SkyTrough(R), the performance of heat collector has been enhanced and the

cost reduced significantly.

17 Dacheng Dunhuang 50MW Molten Salt Fresnel

Location of project: Dunhuang, Gansu


Project owner: Lanzhou Dacheng Technology Co., Ltd

Status of project: Project filing has been completed.

The first 10MW is under-construction.

Comment: The applied capacity was 110MW. The final capacity approved is 50MW.

Introduction of project owner: Lanzhou Dacheng has carried on the development and research of key components and

system integration since 2008. In May 2012, it built China’s first 200KW Fresnel &Trough

CSP system. At present, it focuses on Fresnel technique, which is quite suitable to be applied

in Northwest of China. The Fresnel heat collector with full intellectual property, relying on

independent research and development, have many advantages, such as small land

occupation, strong wind resistance, short construction period, easy testing and simple

maintenance. This project is the world’s first commercial molten salt Fresnel CSP plant.



18 Zhangbei 50MW CSG Fresnel CSP project

Location of project: Zhangbei, Zhangjiakou, Hebei


Project owner: Zhangbei Huaqiang Zhaoyang Co., Ltd.

Feasibility study institute: Hebei Electric Power Design & Research Institute

Route of technology: DSG Fresnel

all solid state formulated concrete thermal storage

Source of technology: Beijing Terasolar Photothermal Technologies Co., Ltd.

Status of project: Feasibility study was finished in February 2015

Filing was finished in February 15th this year.

Comment: Zhangbei Huaqiang Zhaoyang Co., Ltd., funded and established by Xinli Energy

Development Co., Ltd., adopts the improved Fresnel technique provided by Beijing Terasolar

Photothermal Technologies Co., Ltd. Main technological innovation lies in its unique heat

collector designing and all solid state formulated concrete thermal storage technique. The

applied capacity is 2*50MW, one of which is finally chosen.

Introduction of project owner: Zhangbei Huaqiang Zhaoyang Co., Ltd. is funded and established by Xinli Energy

Development Co., Ltd. in December 26th, 2014 with registered capital of RMB42500.

19 Zhangjiakou 50MW

Location of project: Zhangbei, Zhangjiakou, Hebei


Project owner: Zhangbei Huaqiang Zhaoyang Energy Co., Ltd.

Route of technology: DSG Fresnel

14 hours of all solid state formulated concrete thermal

storage

Source of technology: Beijing TeraSolar Photothemal Technologies Co., Ltd.

Status of project: The preliminary work, including feasibility study,

construction design and project filing has been finished.

Comment: This project also adopts the improved Fresnel technique provided by Beijing Terasolar

Photothermal Technologies Co., Ltd. Main technological innovation lies in its unique heat

collector designing and all solid state formulated concrete thermal storage technique. The

applied price is RMB1.12/kWh, which is the lowest among the first batch of 20 demonstration

projects. Zhangjiakou No.1 15MW CSP plant, which is now under-construction by Huaqiang

Zhaoyang, is expected to join the national grid at the end of this year.

Introduction of project owner: Zhangbei Huaqiang Zhaoyang Energy Co., Ltd., with a registered capital of RMB100 million,

was founded in January 29th, 2015.



20 Urat 50MW Fresnel

Location of project: Urat, Inner Mongolia


Project owner: Huaneng North United Power Co., Ltd.

Route of technology: thermal oil Fresnel, 6 hours of molten salt thermal storage

Source of technology: China Huaneng Group Clean Energy Technology Research

Institute

Status of project: Feasibility study review was finished in September 2016

Project filing is underway

Comment: This project uses thermal oil as heat transfer medium, which has never happened in the

existing commercial Fresnel projects worldwide. These commercial projects usually adopt

DSG and don’t have thermal storage system.

Introduction of project owner: Huaneng North United Power Co., Ltd. is a joint-equity enterprise funded by China Huaneng

Group, CITIC Limited, Inner Mongolia Power Co., Ltd. and China Shenhua Energy Company

Limited with a registered capital of RMB10 billion. Once in a monopoly position, now it’s a

pretty competitive market entity.



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