In the cold winter of Qinghai Plateau, the sunshine is particularly generous. In the conference room of Xining Economic and Technological Development Zone, a months long negotiation finally came to an end - with the signing of a cooperation agreement, an energy storage project with a total investment of over 10 billion yuan has officially taken root in this land. Outside the window, the continuous photovoltaic panels shine brightly in the sunlight, as if indicating that this place is about to become a new engine driving China's energy transformation.  

Billion dollar investment landing

On December 7th, Xining Economic and Technological Development Zone announced the successful signing of a large-scale energy storage industry project with a total investment of over 10 billion yuan. The project focuses on energy storage system integration, core component manufacturing, and large-scale application. After completion, it will form a production capacity of 50 gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy storage integration, with an expected annual output value of nearly 10 billion yuan after reaching capacity, directly solving employment for over a thousand people. This not only fills the gap in high-end manufacturing of regional energy storage, but also drives the agglomeration of upstream and downstream industries, forming a closed loop of the entire industry chain from materials, equipment to applications. Xining Development Zone relies on Qinghai's abundant photovoltaic and wind power resources, as well as the existing manufacturing foundation of lithium battery materials and new energy equipment, to position the energy storage industry as a key link between clean energy production and consumption, injecting solid impetus into regional economic growth.  

Collaborative emission reduction and efficiency enhancement of light storage

At the application level of energy storage, Xining Development Zone adheres to the strategy of pilot first and large-scale promotion, and has made breakthroughs in load side energy storage scenarios. For example, the Lihao 1.2 GW load side energy storage project, as a new energy storage demonstration project in Qinghai Province, is accelerating the feasibility study; Enterprises such as Huanghe Xinye have applied mobile energy storage vehicle systems, effectively improving power supply stability and energy efficiency. At the same time, the development zone actively promotes the synergy of photovoltaic and energy storage, encouraging enterprises to use factory roofs to build distributed photovoltaics and support energy storage. Since the beginning of this year, projects such as Gaojing Solar and Unicom Sanjiangyuan Big Data Base have been connected to the grid, generating considerable annual electricity and significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Keywords: energy storage news, energy storage new energy

In order to strengthen the supporting infrastructure of the energy storage industry chain, Ganhe Park in Xining Development Zone is promoting supporting coal-fired power projects and building a diversified energy security system consisting of clean energy, energy storage, and peak shaving power sources. This layout aims to solve the problem of wind and solar power abandonment in new energy generation, enhance the grid's ability to accept clean energy, and provide stable support for the large-scale development of energy storage.

During the 14th Five Year Plan period, Xining Development Zone has formed a "3+3+1" modern industrial system dominated by new energy, new materials, and bioeconomy, supported by high-end equipment manufacturing, electronic information, and modern service industries, and supplemented by green computing power. A total of 116 projects have been signed with a total investment of over 150 billion yuan. The landing of this billion dollar energy storage project marks a breakthrough in the scale of energy storage in Xining Development Zone, and is steadily moving towards an important energy storage industry cluster highland in China.Editor/Yang Meiling