State Grid Opens New Energy Generator Cluster in Qinghai

State Grid Corp of China, the largest power provider in the country, has opened the world's largest new energy distributed synchronous generator cluster in Northwest China's Qinghai Province, the company said on Nov 9.

The first batch of 11 new energy distributed synchronous generators were put into operation on Tuesday, which will increase local new energy consumption capacity by 1.85 million kilowatts.

The grid network in Qinghai has the highest percentage of new energy installed capacity nationwide, which poses a challenge to the local grid network as new energy is usually unstable and volatile.

To tackle the problem of large-scale new energy utilization, the company has been working on solutions and will come up with 21 distributed phase modifiers in four regions in Qinghai province to further lift the transmission capacity of new energy.

All 21 distributed phase modifiers will be put into operation by the end of this year, which will further lift the new energy transmission capacity by 3.5 million kilowatts, equivalent to a reduction of coal consumption by 3.19 million tons and a carbon dioxide emission reduction of 5.74 million tons.