Chinese news platform Nanfang Daily reported on November 27 that construction has commenced for a series of PV projects located in Gaozhou, a county-level city administered as a part of prefecture-level city Maoming in Guangdong Province. The project developer is Guangdong Electric Power, a subsidiary of State Power Investment Corporation. These projects will be integrated with local farming and aquafarming facilities. The total investment for the projects comes to more than RMB 1.5 billion. The entire generation capacity of the projects is set at 300MW. According to Nanfang Daily, the integrated PV projects will create a modern, smart energy system that safely and efficiently produces clean electricity for powering local communities. They will also contribute to a lowering of CO2 emissions.
The development of the projects will proceed in three phases. The first-phase project will be located in Shigu Township and have a generation capacity of 100MW. Spanning an area of 2,011 mu, the first-phase project will be integrated with a local fish farm that raises tilapias. The person responsible for the project told Nanfang Daily that PV modules (or solar panels) will cover the fish ponds. The facility will continue to operate according to the existing model, but the economic value of the facility area will increase significantly due to having the additional function of generating power. All in all, the project will demonstrate the advantages of the adoption of a centralized PV generation system at a farming or aquafarming site.
Based on the given schedule, the entire series of integrated PV projects will be connected to the grid by the end of next June and receive the final acceptance by the end of next August. Once up and running, the projects together will output an average of 112GWh per year. In terms of annual emission reduction, the projects collectively will cut CO2 by around 94,509MT, SO2 by around 307MT, and NOx by around 267MT.
