Tibet will become China's largest solar power generation province

The largest solar photovoltaic power station in Tibet, 100 megawatts of large-scale photovoltaic grid-connected power stations has officially started construction. In the 60 years since its peaceful liberation, the cumulative installed capacity of Tibet's high-grid photovoltaic power generation has reached 9 megawatts, accounting for approximately 13% of the installed capacity of China's solar photovoltaic power generation, and will become China's largest solar power generation province.

Tibet is the province with the most abundant solar energy resources in China. It spends more than 2,000 hours in most areas of the year. The annual radiation can reach 6000-8000 megajoules per square meter.

In the past 60 years, Tibet has been developing clean energy such as solar energy, hydropower, wind energy, and geothermal energy. It has used green energy to protect the last pure land of the snow-covered plateau. Energy use has gradually expanded from geothermal, coal, and oil development to geothermal and solar energy. Research on the use of wind energy and other resources.

According to the Tibet Autonomous Region Department of Science and Technology, Tibet's solar energy research, development, and utilization started in the early 1980s, mainly in light and heat, and entered a period of rapid development in the 1990s.

In the 1990s, the Chinese government successively implemented solar photovoltaic projects in Tibet, such as the Science and Technology Light Project, the Bright Project, the Tibet Ali Photoelectric Project, and the transmission of electricity to the countryside. At present, Tibet has established seven county-level independent photovoltaic power stations, town-level photovoltaic power stations, and wind-solar hybrid power stations of more than 300, with household solar photovoltaic power sources and about 100,000 sets of wind-solar hybrid power supplies.

During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, Tibet vigorously implemented the "Golden Sun Technology Project." In the research and development of a new type of folding solar cooker, demonstration and promotion of solar energy heating, solar gas, wind and solar power generation and photovoltaic grid and other aspects of new energy technology research and demonstration and promotion.

At present, Tibet has accumulatively promoted 395,000 solar cookers, promoted the average annual increase of solar cookers by more than 10%, centralized solar heating area reached 10,000 square meters, and installed a total installed wind power of 220 kilowatts. There are 200,000 farmers and herdsmen in the region. The family relied on photovoltaic power generation to round up the electric light dream, and nearly 700,000 farmers and herdsmen benefited from using various solar energy products.

Today, green new energy is entering the homes of ordinary Tibetans and is becoming the darling of the people of all ethnic groups on the plateau.

In Tibetan village of Daba in Zanda, Ali district, Tibet, Tibetan herdsmen Quji use solar cookers to cook water every day. Her home's electric lights and televisions are powered by solar energy. "We don't have to spend a penny on lighting and watching TV. It's convenient," Qu Ji said.

Tibet is speeding up the transformation of its economic development mode and vigorously developing green and clean energy. This year alone, the cumulative investment in the construction of 10 large-scale solar photovoltaic power stations in Tibet will exceed 2 billion yuan.

In Lhasa, whenever the night falls, the solar street lights of the Potala Palace Square and Zongkang Lukang Park will light up the nightlife of Lhasa people. Behind the application of solar energy technology is the low-carbon life of Tibetans. According to estimates, last year Tibet passed a total of 162,800 tons of standard coal, equivalent to RMB 100 million, through the use of solar PV and the use of solar thermal energy.

During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, Tibet will focus on the development of hydropower. The scale of electric power installation and construction to meet the demand in the region will reach 2.87 million kilowatts, and the Tibetan Wood, Tiger’s Beak, Guoduo and Duobu Hydropower Stations will be built. At the same time, Tibet will actively develop solar energy, establish a national-level solar energy research and demonstration base, explore small-scale solar power generation and large-scale solar power plant construction models, and strive to install solar photovoltaic and solar thermal power generation capacity of 160,000 kilowatts, and accelerate geothermal, wind, and biomass. Can develop and use resources.