When the list of the second batch of national wind and solar power base projects is officially implemented in 2026, vast deserts, Gobi, and desert areas are becoming the main battlefield for new energy construction that attracts global attention. This land, which accounts for 13% of China's land area, is undergoing a green energy revolution in extreme natural environments with a scale of "tens of millions of kilowatts", focusing on technology, collaboration, and intelligence. Whether it can withstand the triple test of a temperature difference of over 50 ℃ between day and night, violent sandstorms, and fragile power grids will become the "ultimate test" for all participants.

Born for the desert

The requirements for equipment in the desert environment are far beyond ordinary. The low sand and dust sensitive blades and anti sand heat dissipation cabin developed by Huaneng Group, combined with the steel-concrete tower foundation, have successfully reduced the cost of electricity to 0.15 to 0.2 yuan per kilowatt hour and increased power generation by nearly 10%. The more revolutionary tandem dual wind turbine technology reduces blade length by over 30% and significantly improves land use efficiency. In the field of photovoltaics, the project at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang uses high and low temperature resistant components and windproof and sand resistant electrical systems. Its high wind resistant flexible support not only adapts to soft foundations, but also leaves space for ecological restoration under the board. The energy storage system adopts long-life lithium iron phosphate batteries and millisecond level response inverters, forming a centralized and distributed collaborative layout, stabilizing the overall availability of the system at over 95%, far exceeding the level of general equipment.

From passive to active

Faced with the reality of being far away from load centers and weak power grids, intelligent scheduling has become the key to breaking the deadlock. The demonstration project of National Energy Group in Ejina Banner, with grid based energy storage as the core, has achieved long-term stable operation of a wide area pure new energy cluster off the grid for the first time. This energy storage technology can actively construct grid voltage and frequency, providing millisecond level support. At the same time, scheduling systems based on digital twins and AI algorithms, such as those used in the Tianshan Northern Foothills project, can simulate decades of resource changes, optimize equipment layout, reduce mutual interference, control wind and solar power output fluctuations within ± 5%, reduce power abandonment rates to below 2%, and help energy storage increase profits through peak valley arbitrage and other means.

Beyond power generation itself

The development of Shage Desert has gone beyond the scope of simple power generation and is moving towards a deep integration of source grid load storage and ecological governance. To solve the problem of "easy power generation but difficult transmission", the Zhejiang Energy Wuwei Peak shaving Thermal Power Project collaborates with the wind and solar power base to ensure the stability of the ultra-high voltage channel, increasing the utilization rate from 60% to over 85%, reflecting the value of source grid collaboration. At the ecological level, "power generation+desertification control" has become a common model, planting drought resistant crops under photovoltaic panels and developing aquaculture, forming a symbiotic system of "green electricity+oasis". The project has achieved the unified growth of economic, ecological, and social benefits by adopting environmental dust suppressants, topsoil stripping and recycling measures to minimize the ecological footprint. Keywords: Macro Latest News, Macro Latest Reports

In the future, the essence of competition in Shagehuang will be a contest of system integration capabilities. Enterprises that have established advantages in customized equipment, intelligent scheduling, and multi-dimensional symbiosis will lay the foundation for victory in this new frontier of green energy.Editor/Gao Xue