On April 7, 2026, a photovoltaic power station with an installed capacity of 1 million kilowatts was officially put into operation in Oudomxay Province, Laos, becoming the largest single photovoltaic project in Southeast Asia. From groundbreaking to full capacity production, it only took over 400 days. And the starting point of this energy expedition actually originated from an accidental layover. During a transit through Laos, a senior executive from China General Nuclear Power Corporation conducted an active market research, which led a Chinese clean energy company to discover the huge opportunities behind the structural shortage of electricity in Laos.

Cross border channels are interconnected in both directions

Electricity transmission has been a bottleneck that has plagued energy cooperation between China and Laos for over a decade. China General Nuclear Power Corporation and Southern Power Grid are deeply cooperating, and the construction of power stations and cross-border transmission lines are advancing synchronously. In early June 2026, the China Laos 500 kV Cross border Interconnection Project completed the country's first two-way import and export clearance of 500 kV ultra-high voltage power, with a cumulative cross-border transmission of 250 million kilowatt hours of clean electricity, completely solving the problem of power consumption.

Three dimensional communication wins trust

The difficulty of project approval has sharply increased from 5 megawatts to 1000 megawatts. The CGN team has established a three-dimensional communication mechanism from the central government to provinces, counties, and villages, conducting on-site inspections and risk assessments layer by layer. By inviting Laotian officials to conduct on-site inspections in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan provinces of China, promoting the park model of promoting production through electricity, we ultimately won the comprehensive trust of the Laotian government from the policy level to the villages. Keywords: New Energy News Network, Cross border Electricity

Cross border electricity price closed-loop innovation

The project breaks away from the traditional electricity sales model and sends most of the electricity to the southern regional electricity market in China for consumption, relying on the mature electricity market in China to form an expected revenue loop. At the same time, it has driven more than 40 domestic supporting manufacturers to unite and go global, upgrading the industrial chain from selling electricity to exporting energy solutions.Editor/Gao Xue