China Guangdong Nuclear Power (CGN), the project owner and developer announced that CGN Delingha 50MW parabolic trough concentrated solar power (CSP) plant, China first large-scale commercial CSP project, will start commercial operation at the end of this month on September 30.

As CSP Focus reported earlier, the proejct was successfully connected to the grid in the evening of June 30. And three months later it will realize full operation, indicatiing that China will have the 1st large-scale commercial CSP plant in operation.

Relevant Free Report: CGN Delingha 50MW Parabolic Trough CSP Project Report (updated in July, 2018)

At an altitude of 3,000 meters, the project owns 190 loops with more than 9,000 SCEs, consisting of 250,000 pieces of reflectors with a total area of 620,000 square meters. 

Molten salt tanks in TES&HTF island own an diameter of 42 meters, the longest in Asia.

It is absolutely a great milestone for China CSP industry, which entitled China the 8^th country in the world owning large-scale commercial CSP project. And as CSP Focus keeps reporting, the CGN Delingha plant is also amongst China 1^st batch of 20 pilot projects(4 cancelled for now) and now the first with completion.

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The project was officially broken ground in the year of 2014, and the only CSP project in China getting loan from Asian Development Bank. With total investment of RMB 1.938 billion, the project is equipped with 9 hours molten salt thermal energy storage.

Chinese companies Beijing Shouhang  IHW Energy Saving & SEPCOII and Shandong Sunway  Petrochemical Engineering Co., Ltd joined the project as EPCs of solar field and HTF&TES respectively. Other local involvers include Dongfang Turbine, Harbin Turbine, Wuxi Chemical Equipment,Co., Ltd etc. And global leading CSP companies like TSK, IDOM, sbp, Rioglass, Solutia, Sulzer also provided components and services for CGN Delingha CSP project.

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CSP Focus database: CGN Delingha 50MW Thermal Oil Parabolic Trough project