Recently, the Hami Integrated Green Power Demonstration Project, which combines solar thermal, photovoltaic, and energy storage, achieved a significant milestone in Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County, Xinjiang. The final concrete pour for the support structure of the cold and hot salt pumps—a core component of the 150MW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant—has been completed. This marks the full conclusion of the construction of the key load-bearing support structure for the molten salt thermal storage and heat exchange system, and signals the project’s official transition from civil construction to the electromechanical installation stage.
As the world’s largest single-phase CSP project integrated with energy storage and a core initiative under China’s second batch of large-scale wind and photovoltaic base projects in desert and Gobi regions, the Hami Integrated Green Power Demonstration Project has a total installed capacity of 1,500MW. This includes 1,350MW of photovoltaic capacity and 150MW of solar thermal capacity. The project innovatively adopts an intelligent dispatch system and a “bidirectional energy storage” mechanism, enabling 24-hour continuous power generation and forming an efficient complementarity with nearby photovoltaic and wind power facilities.
