Full commercialization will take time

In addition to the constraints of the feed-in tariff for solar grid tie inverter thermal power generation cost and technology still faces two obstacles, the industry generally believe that the above CSP plants will take some time away from the real commercial operation.

Cost of power generation for the project, said control solar stakeholders to the "Daily Economic News" reporter, admitted that the cost of solar thermal power generation is certainly better than photovoltaic, after all, have not really achieve large-scale applications. Scale applications, the first construction costs are high, the cost of the operating process, how operators should seek experience.

However, the source said, from the industry in the long run, the very edge of light and heat. Light and heat is just out of our cost of power generation is certainly better than the PV just came out, but also a lot lower. "In fact, the early stages of development of photovoltaic power plants, the NDRC concentrating photovoltaic PV project on Chongming Island, Shanghai and Inner Mongolia Erdos The project's approved tariff in more than 4 yuan / kwh.

This the control solar written reply also said that at this stage of solar thermal power generation equipment manufacturing did not reach economies of scale, resulting in the initial investment cost and the unit cost of power generation is higher than the thermal power, hydropower. With 2 hours of thermal storage unit cost of solar thermal power projects in general in more than 25,000 yuan / kWh, but the company chose a small area of ​​the heliostat as the condenser system's core components, greatly reducing the cost of manufacturing, project implementation cost and power plant maintenance costs.

In addition, the company from concentrating collector systems, thermal storage systems into the national power generation system and key equipment, process design, manufacturing capacity as well as a 10-megawatt project accumulated a wealth of experience in engineering and operation and maintenance are greatly reduced power plant construction costs as well as power plant operating costs. As the technology matures and the growth of large-scale applications, the future cost of solar tower thermal power stations will be reduced to with photovoltaic quite, or even lower levels.

However, new easy-generation that now is too early to calculate the cost of power generation projects, the general figures given in the control solar is 18,000 yuan / kWh, which does not include the subsequent operating costs, and in the project's pre-feasibility report , capital preservation is of 1 kWh 1.26 yuan, can only wait for the completion of the project and operations results.

Commercialization prospects for the CSP plants, easy-generation frankly, solar thermal power generation from the real commercialization is still a long way to go, this depends on national policy and enterprise, including the decline in corporate costs, technology innovation. As in the Delhi region, but also consider saving plateau.

"Enterprises must reduce the cost of each link, the technology is not mature enough, the subsidy policy is not clear, a lot of problems." Yi said on behalf of the new, but the light and heat just out into everything to look forward.

, Lin Boqiang to the "Daily Economic News" reporter said that technological progress is a process, basically tariff issues and the policy of subsidies, this is the most critical problem. "The country has been in intensive introduction to support solar policy, I believe that soon there will be good news out."

More expensive than photovoltaic solar thermal power converter generation attractive prospect still cited capital compete in

With the completion of the first commercial operation of solar thermal power generation project, the CSP industry has also become a hot spot of the capital market and the attention of the local government.

The media reported that the "12th Five-Year Plan for renewable energy development proposed CSP 2015 will reach one million kilowatts of installed annual target, the next five Nianguang thermal power generation market size of up to 150 billion, and as future 10 years, large-scale commercial solar thermal power generation starts, the market size of the total investment of up to 100 billion yuan.

"We have a fixed equipment suppliers, key equipment has been fully realize the localization and industrialization." The control solar sources told the "Daily Economic News" reporter.

In this regard, the local governments have the same consensus Delingha economic development "The government plans to provide auxiliary support services for CSP projects and enterprises landing place, the local enterprises Hercynian Huahui has in the control of solar tray production." Reform Commission Chairman Yanbing Wu said. '

The new darling of the capital market

In fact, as early as in the control of solar projects before the domestic advance layout enterprise CSP plants are not lacking in the shadow of the listed companies.

July 1, 2010, Asia's first tower solar thermal power inverter plant under construction in Beijing Yanqing, this project is jointly developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Huang Ming Solar Energy and Huadian Group, with a total investment of 1.2 billion yuan, the power generation capacity of 1 MW , is a demonstration project. "The projects have been completed, China's largest pilot demonstration project, the more successful operators are also light and heat power generation project." China Renewable Energy Society, vice president hi to Mandarin.

Involved in the Beijing Yanqing projects Himin solar still Texas Sun Valley voted to build a two-megawatt scale solar trough power projects, Huang Ming Solar is closely tracking as 1,000 megawatts of solar thermal power generation project in Golmud, Qinghai.