The Xunzhou solar plant is located in the Xuzhou City Jiangsu province. The 20MW installation, energized on December 30, 2009, is expected to have an annual power generation of approximately 26,000,000kWh and operate for approximately 1,300 hours annually.
The 3MW Yancheng Guoneng rooftop installation, energized on December 31, 2009, will produce 3,370,000kWh of grid connected solar power annually. It resides on 46 million square meters of factory rooftop. The entire project was completed, from design to activation, in seventy-five days.
Gu Huamin, general manager of GCL Solar, said: “Both the Xunzhou photovoltaic power station and the Yangcheng City rooftop installation are technological breakthroughs in project construction and technology innovation. The two installations clearly demonstrate China’s increasing demand for utility scale renewable power production and its commitment to large scale solar innovation.”
Steve Rhoades, president and CEO of Satcon Technology, said: “China is quickly becoming the world’s leading adopter of utility scale solar power production. Satcon has developed and deployed the world’s most widely utilized large scale solar PV inverter solutions. Our technical innovation and expertise provide our customers with the industry’s most advanced and proven utility scale solutions, optimized in design and performance to deliver the energy safety, security, reliability, sustainability and efficiency required to power the world’s renewable energy needs.”
The 20MW Xunzhou power station is projected to save 7,550 tons of standard coal, and decrease greenhouse CO2 emissions by 20,155 tons. The 3MW Yancheng rooftop project is projected to relieve greenhouse CO2 emission 2,743 tons.
