China’s Old Silk Road Shines Again, With Solar Managed By GoodWe Playing A Role

China’s dominance of the solar PV market is no surprise to those who are aware of the massive effort the government there has put behind developing it’s capabilities. Solar players in China benefit not just from significant government backing, but also a massive domestic market that has emerged to provide them the greatest opportunity seen in solar energy to test and learn. The country’s North and Northwest regions, with their cold, yet, dry air and flat lands provide ample scope for solar plants to provide much needed energy, and the result is some of the world’s most ambitious solar push in those regions today.

With China actively pushing its decarbonisation agenda to become a carbon-neutral economy by 2060, it is expected to add over 600 GW of solar capacity by 2030, besides other renewable energy sources. In 2021, the country added a record 53 GW, a number expected to be grow significantly in 2022. Those numbers demand constant innovation and resilient products, providing local champions a great opportunity to demonstrate their own product range. GoodWe, one of the leading PV inverter suppliers, has done just that in the recent 80MW PV project in northwest China’s Gansu province.

80MW PV Project in Gansu, China

Once as an important hub along the original Silk Road, Gansu province has seen commercial and cultural exchanges between the East and West since ancient times. Because of China’s new Belt and Road initiative, the past “pearl” of the trade route has once again caught the world’s attention and is glowing again. A recent PV project in Gansu’s Dunhuang and Zhangye cities has provided not just solar power, but used local economic and industrial structure, significantly contributing to its environmental protection and economic development in the region.

Situated at the edge of the vast Gobi Desert, Dunhuang city boasts long hours of strong sunshine throughout the year, but also characterised by dry air, high temperatures and widespread dust. Thus, even as agriculture is a challenge, the land does offer an opportunity for significant scale solar plants. Although the harsh environmental conditions like these make for high demands of advanced & powerful solar technologies. Inverters installed outside are required to be subjected to high temperature fluctuations and sandstorms.

Desert in Dunhuang city, Gansu province, China

Danxia Landform in Zhangye City, Gansu Province, China

Situated at the edge of the vast Gobi Desert, Dunhuang city boasts long hours of strong sunshine throughout the year, but also characterised by dry air, high temperatures and widespread dust. Thus, even as agriculture is a challenge, the land does offer an opportunity for significant scale solar plants. Although the harsh environmental conditions like these make for high demands of advanced & powerful solar technologies. Inverters installed outside are required to be subjected to high temperature fluctuations and sandstorms.

Because of the proven cutting-edge technology and trustworthy performance in projects across the world, 356 sets of GoodWe GW225K-HT inverters are used in this project, ensuring an annual average power generation of 186.84 million kWh. There is also a significant reduction on carbon dioxide emission by 142,800 tons.

GoodWe’s 225kW string inverter features an IP66 water and dust protection with IP68 external cooling fans while providing excellent corrosion resistance. It can be operated under a wide temperature range of -40 ℃ to 60 ℃ and is adapted to various complicated cases. Meanwhile, in such arid and outskirt areas, the inverters offer Remote Monitoring System which not only saves time & cost, but also makes O&M much simpler and hassle-free.

For GoodWe, it is performance in these conditions that serves as the most convincing argument for customers looking for inverters that can handle the challenges nature throws in difficult geographies. It is also, in many ways the secret behind the success of firms from China, beyond the reality of massive scale that it’s large domestic market can support to give them global wings too.

GoodWe storage inverters were ranked No. 1 globally by Wood Mackenzie in 2020, with over 20% market share, and the company was ranked one of the world’s Top 10 inverter suppliers by IHS Markit. Having achieved over six consecutive TÜV Rheinland “All Quality Matters” awards and consistently being ranked at the top in terms of overall product quality, GoodWe’s comprehensive portfolio of products and solutions for residential, commercial, and utility-scale PV systems is guaranteed to deliver high performance and reliable quality across the board.

About GoodWe HT series

The new HT-Series seamlessly incorporates different sets of technical strengths intended to achieve higher savings in the installation, enhancing productivity and diversifying the monitoring options available, taking safety to the maximum possible level in accordance with the most demanding national standards. This utility scale solar inverter also introduces innovations and technological flexibilities that make it highly compelling as a viable utility option. The result of this extensive list of advantages is a well-conceived, harmonious, technologically advanced and asset owner-centered inverter that is also aesthetic.