Chapter 693 Demonstrate solar power generation technology to the world
If the price per watt is too high, it will not be able to be promoted on a large scale around the world. No matter how much people want green energy, they must return to reality. Not many people are willing to pay for the high electricity price.
If it is too cheap, I will feel that I am at a disadvantage. Now that I have mastered advanced technology, I naturally need to strive for the greatest benefit for myself.
According to this quotation, plus supporting facilities and construction costs, the cost of generating electricity per kilowatt-hour is less than 1 yuan. If the energy company makes some profits, the price for residents to purchase electricity should be less than 1.2 yuan.
Although this kind of electricity price does not look cheap, it is acceptable after all. Like Europe with few energy resources, their electricity price is not much cheaper than this, and even more expensive.
Of course, the biggest factor in solar power generation is instability, and the large difference in seasonal power generation, which is the biggest obstacle restricting the development of the solar power generation industry.
The chemical energy storage technology in the hands of Kirin Energy Industry Group cannot be licensed externally, so if you want to sell solar power generation equipment to outsiders, you have to solve the energy storage problem.
The technology he prepared is aluminum-air battery, which needs aluminum metal which is very abundant on the earth, with high specific energy, light weight, non-toxic and non-polluting, which is an ideal energy storage battery product.
Of course, aluminum-air batteries also have their own disadvantages, such as low specific power, slow charging and discharging speeds, voltage lag, and high self-discharge rate. A thermal management system is required to prevent overheating of aluminum-air batteries during operation.
These disadvantages are precisely the advantages of lithium-ion batteries, so traditional aluminum-air batteries are not suitable as an energy source for electric vehicles, and the specific power performance gap between the two is as high as dozens of times.
Of course, this is just an ordinary aluminum-air battery. He has the technology to improve these shortcomings of the aluminum-air battery, and it may be used as a high-end battery product in the future.
However, these good things have no plans to take them out for the time being. Unless the solar panels are exported on a large scale and the country where they are located is used as the main source of energy, otherwise, they can only be used as a supplement to conventional energy sources, and such good batteries are not needed at all.
Huanyu Group's nickel-metal hydride batteries can be used as energy storage batteries for solar power generation, and it is also sufficient to meet the needs of foreign solar power generation, unless they also build on a large scale like Kirin Energy Industry Group.
This is basically impossible, because the investment is too large to be replaced overnight, which means that the previous energy investment has been wasted, so the replacement is a gradual process.
The reason why our country wants to do this is mainly because our country's investment in the power field was not very large before, after all, the previous economic situation was there.
Now that the demand for energy is soaring, it is not wasteful to build large-scale solar power generation facilities. Solar power generation is very suitable for economically backward countries, but the burden on developed countries will be even heavier.
After each country knew the price from Kirin Energy Industry Group, they went back and made a total amount. For some countries, such a cost is completely acceptable.
Because the price of electricity in some countries exceeds 1 yuan per kilowatt-hour, or even as high as 2 yuan, it is cheaper to replace it with solar power generation facilities.
The only disadvantage is that the cost of electricity storage is too high. If the cost of electricity storage is included, the price will be very expensive, but there are still many countries that think it is very cost-effective, such as some countries in Europe.
So in just one week, some countries began to announce to the outside world that they would gradually transition their energy production mode to solar power generation mode in the future.
In this regard, Kirin Energy Industrial Group has a stable attitude, because the countries that announced the replacement of solar power generation models are all small countries with developed economies.
Even if they use solar power for all their domestic power generation, it is not a big deal for Kirin Energy Industrial Group. Countries with real demand have not taken action for a long time.
However, this is also a good start. The topic of clean energy has gradually gained international attention, and it is no longer stuck in the previous stage of only shouting slogans but doing little action.
Now Kirin Energy Industrial Group's production capacity must meet its own needs, and the small amount of external orders does not have much influence on them.
However, even for these small countries, the combined quantity is quite considerable. In just one month, Kirin Energy Industry Group received an order of 1GW, that is, an order of 1 billion watts.
Calculated according to this order, Kirin Energy Industry Group's offshore sales amounted to 20 billion yuan, which is not bad, but compared with their production capacity, it is not worth mentioning.
They mainly focus on domestic solar energy construction, accept foreign orders as soon as they are available, and let them forget if they are not. They have no energy to explore the international market, so they can only passively wait for orders to come to them.
As early as a few months ago, the peaceful Qinghai was already bustling with activity. The early construction workers came and started construction of living facilities ahead of time, because there was a barren beach here.
If these living facilities are not built in advance, a large number of workers will have no place to live when the time comes, and these tasks must be done in advance.
In addition, since a few months ago, the construction of power supporting facilities has begun here. To send such a huge amount of power generation to the grid, a lot of supporting facilities are needed.
Now it's getting more lively here. As the solar panels are being transported by trucks from Kylin Energy Industry Group Co., Ltd. to Qinghai, the installation work there is also in full swing.
The production cost of solar panels of Kirin Energy Industry Group is 1 yuan per watt, but if the auxiliary power generation facilities are included, the cost reaches 2 yuan per watt.
This is due to the extremely high efficiency of their power generation panels. If it is the efficiency of the power generation panels they sell, the cost of ancillary facilities per watt will be higher.
Interestingly, when Kirin Energy Industrial Group built solar power generation facilities, it did not choose to do it silently, but to do it with great fanfare.
They arranged for special personnel to film the entire construction process of the solar power plant, and then updated the video on their social platforms every day, and announced their construction progress to the outside world.
The purpose of doing this is actually very simple, it is to arouse the interest of the global public in solar power generation, hoping to guide more people to realize the importance of solar power generation.
No matter when the underground energy reserves are used up, it is undeniable that this will only happen sooner or later, and the chain problems caused by over-exploitation of underground resources cannot be ignored.
In the past, there was no way but to use fossil energy. Now that there are better choices, it is time to invest part of the investment in the field of renewable energy such as solar energy.
The work of building a solar power plant is actually not difficult. As long as there is enough supply of solar equipment, if you want to speed up the installation, you only need to recruit more workers to work.
The solar panels produced by Kirin Energy Industry Group for solar power plants are two-square-meter rectangles, and single solar panels can be closed together with clips around them to form a larger solar panel.
If you go to the site, you will see a rectangular solar panel with a width of 2 meters and a length of 100 meters. The purpose of doing so is not only to save land area, but also to realize motor sharing.
In order to collect as much solar energy as possible, the electric panels will automatically adjust the angle according to the sunlight, so that when the sky turns white before the sun rises, it can start generating electricity until the sun completely sets and the sky turns completely dark.
In addition to the facilities for automatically adjusting the angle, there are also self-heating facilities for panels and self-cleaning facilities for panel dust, all of which are designed to reduce the workload of maintenance personnel.
If there is too much dust on the panel, it will seriously affect the power generation efficiency. The automatic cleaning robot will clean the dust at night according to the amount of dust on the panel.
The panel self-heating facility is mainly to melt the snow on the panel. In areas like Qinghai, the snowfall in winter is very large. If it is not melted in time, it will be difficult to melt in a short time.
The application of these devices and functions can save a lot of time for maintenance personnel, improve maintenance efficiency, and reduce maintenance costs of power plants at the same time.
At the beginning, their videos were quite boring, just installing various facilities, which was not very interesting, but as the scale of installation gradually increased, everyone was more and more shocked by the solar power plant.
More and more people follow their social accounts, especially in the overlooking scene, the 200-gigawatt power plant covers an area of more than 600 square kilometers.
Looking down from a high altitude, it is a sea of solar panels. This kind of scene fully reflects the power of industry, and many people like to watch such videos.
This is not the most interesting thing, there are many interesting machines and equipment inside, such as the automatic cleaning robot mentioned above, one machine can complete the cleaning work of one square kilometer of solar panels in one night.
This robot was developed by Qinglong Technology Company. It uses artificial intelligence technology. The staff only need to sit at home and issue instructions, and the robot will enter the power plant along the aerial cable from the warehouse.
Automatically start to work according to the tasks assigned to them. There are cable connections between the panels, and the robot can move back and forth between the various power generation panels through the cables, which is very flexible.
For a solar power plant with such a large area, it only needs to prepare more than 600 robots to complete the cleaning work of the entire area, which is quite easy for the staff.
In addition, they also demonstrated the advanced monitoring and deployment system. In the monitoring and deployment system center, the staff can know everything that happens in the power plant.
At the same time, the power transmission and distribution work is all intelligently operated. The role of the staff is to deal with emergencies, but this situation is rarely encountered once a year.
Kirin Energy Industrial Group has demonstrated to the world what an advanced solar power plant should look like in an all-round way through social platforms, revealing the taste of technology everywhere.
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