It is reported that on January 17, Meyer Burger, a Swiss-based photovoltaic module manufacturer, announced that it would close its solar module production base in Germany and said it would make a final decision by the end of February. It is understood that the module factory that Meyer Burger closed this time is the largest solar panels factory in Europe. The closure of the plant is a major blow to the photovoltaic manufacturing industry in Germany and Europe. Meyer Burger said in a statement, "Due to the deteriorating European market environment, it is currently unsustainable to continue full-scale European solar manufacturing. Unfortunately, part of the plan will begin to close in Frei, Germany, as early as April 2024." Berg has one of the largest operating solar module production sites in Europe, affecting around 500 people.” Meyer Burger said its cell production site at its Thalheim plant in Germany will continue to produce solar cells to support its U.S. module production operations. Gunter Erfurt, CEO of Meyer Burger, said: "The expansion of our U.S. operations is currently proceeding as planned, with start-up at our solar module production site in Goodyear, Arizona expected in the second quarter of 2024." Previously, Meyer Burger had planned to add approximately 3GW of production capacity in Germany by the end of 2024, including Freiberg's 1.4GW soalr panels production capacity. In addition, on July 18, 2023, Meyer Burger also announced that it will build a 3.5GW factory in Spain

Czechia recorded a significant increase in installed solar capacity last year, with about 970MWp of capacity added to the grid. However, the growth was mainly driven by household rooftop solar, according to the Czech Solar Association. Last year, a total of 82,799 solar power plants were connected to the grid in Czechia, with a total installed capacity of 970.1MWp, representing a 236% increase from 2022’s 289.1MWp. The number of solar power plants increased by 145%, from 49,000 in 2022 to 82,799 in 2023. Of the new solar power plants, 80,069 (96.7%) were from household rooftops, with a total output of 823.3MWp. The average size of domestic PV plants was 10.3kWp last year, up from 6.7kWp in 2022. 92% of families chose a solution combined with battery storage with an average capacity of 12kWh, up from 11.7kWh in 2022.  The Czech Solar Association said the driver of residential sector growth was the New Green Savings programme. According to the Czech government, the programme aims to achieve energy savings in final consumption, with measurement including the development of solar PV systems. In contrast, there were only 2,730 company and land-based solar PV plants added last year, with a total output of about 140MWp. Among these solar PV plants, 25 boasted a capacity of over 1MWp. “The growth was driven by rooftop power plants for family homes or companies. However, if we want to use the potential of solar energy in the Czech Republic and, above all, to prepare for the shutdown of coal-fired power plants earlier than expected, we must increase the construction of solar parks,” said Jan Krčmář, director of the Czech Solar Association. Moreover, the total output of all solar power PV plants in Czechia last year reached almost 3.5GW. In total, more than 170,000 solar power plants were connected to the grid, of which more than 150,000 were on the roofs of family houses. Moving forward, the Czech Solar Association said it expects more investors to build larger solar PV plants, subsidised by the European Commission’s Modernisation Fund. The fund focuses on several areas, including the generation and use of energy from renewable sources.

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In early November 2023, the world's largest Ocean photovoltaic project-Shandong Dongying Kenli 1 million kilowatt offshore photovoltaic project has officially started construction. The project is located in the waters of Laizhou Bay, Dongying City. After completion, the annual power generation is expected to be 1.78 billion kilowatt hours. On December 26, my country's first large-scale ocean pile-based fixed offshore photovoltaic project, China General Nuclear Power Group Co., Ltd. Yantai Zhaoyuan 400 MW offshore photovoltaic project, also officially started construction. The project is also located in the waters of Laizhou Bay, with a total planned area of approximately 6.44 square kilometers, and consists of 121 photovoltaic sub-arrays. It is the deepest, most difficult to construct, and the most complex development condition among the first ten offshore photovoltaic project sites in Shandong Province. of site. After completion, the average annual power generation is expected to be 690 million kilowatt hours.   However, moving from "land photovoltaic" to "ocean photovoltaic" is far more than just "moving" photovoltaic power plants from land to sea. Experts said that currently there are challenges in all stages of offshore photovoltaic projects such as preliminary procedures, project construction, and later operation and maintenance management. Especially in terms of equipment and construction, there are many challenges. At present, there are two types of floating photovoltaics, one is the fixed type on pile foundation and the other is the floating type on the sea. Large-scale ocean photovoltaic projects are currently mainly based on fixed pile foundations on coastal beaches or intertidal zones. Use a pile driver to drive reinforced concrete pipe piles with a diameter of 30-50 cm into the water, similar to foundations, and then install corrosion-resistant metal photovoltaic brackets on the piles. Since pile driving can only be carried out within a water depth of 5 meters, where there are no geological hazards and small water level changes, pile-based fixed power stations can usually only be installed on tidal flats and intertidal zones. In the long run, stationary applications have limited scope. The country's largest coastal tidal fishery and light complementary photovoltaic project, which will be put into operation in 2021, the Xiangshan Changtu tidal flat project is located in the tidal flat area of Xiangshan County. It has 630,000 photovoltaic panels and generates an annual power generation of up to 350 million KW. The construction of pile-based photovoltaics is quite difficult. Because the tidal flat area is covered with ocean at high tide and filled with mud at low tide, transport ships often run aground halfway. The seemingly simple transportation of pipe piles is actually very difficult. In addition, because tidal flat photovoltaics are located at sea, the environment is humid and salty, and the metal supports are easily corrod...

Since the beginning of this year, new wind power and solar energy projects have been launched across the country, and the energy storage market has exploded. As an emerging energy storage station operation model, shared energy storage has received more and more attention. A large number of shared energy storage stations have been built in Guizhou, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places. In Yangkou Town, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, next to the wind power and photovoltaic project are rows of shared energy storage power stations composed of white energy storage cabins. The person in charge said that this project was connected to the grid on November 29, with an investment of more than 790 million yuan. The excess electricity generated by multiple surrounding wind power and photovoltaic power stations can be stored to provide power to residential areas or industrial enterprises. Shang Sen, the person in charge of the operation and management of a shared energy storage power station in Nantong, Jiangsu: In terms of scale, it is currently the largest large-scale shared energy storage power station in East China. Our configuration is 200,000 kilowatts and 400,000 kilowatt hours. This means that it can charge 200,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity in one hour, and it can discharge the corresponding amount of electricity when it is fully charged. Shared energy storage stations not only connect to wind power and photovoltaic power stations to store excess power generation during peak power generation periods, but also connect to power-consuming enterprises to provide electric energy to enterprises during peak power consumption periods. Pan Zaibin, director of electrical appliances in the engineering department of a company in Changxing, Zhejiang: Shared energy storage stations have greatly reduced our electricity costs. At present, we only use about 20% to 25%. Wind power and photovoltaic power generation are random and intermittent, and many provinces require power stations to be equipped with energy storage systems for 1 to 2 hours. Industry insiders said that the cost of building energy storage by yourself is high, charging and discharging only once a day, and the use efficiency is low. Shared energy storage power stations are large in scale and connect upstream power stations and downstream power consuming enterprises. They can be charged and discharged multiple times a day, improving usage efficiency. You can also participate in power grid dispatching and earn price differences through peak shaving and valley filling, with low overall costs. By leasing shared energy storage, construction costs of new energy power stations have generally been reduced by more than 10%. Shared energy storage has become very popular and ushered in a construction peak.

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It is reported that on December 7, with the smooth connection of my country's first batch of Shagehuang large-scale wind power and photovoltaic base projects to the grid, the new energy installed capacity of the Northwest Power Grid exceeded 200 million kilowatts, accounting for nearly 50% of the total installed capacity of the Northwest Power Grid. It has doubled again in three years. Now, Northwest New Energy is accelerating its move towards the main power source, further promoting the construction of Northwest's new power system. In recent years, the development of new energy in the northwest region has accelerated, and the proportion and growth rate of new energy installed capacity have remained leading. In terms of improving the ability to understand system characteristics, we vigorously promote the actual measurement and modeling of new energy stations, carry out full electromagnetic transient digital simulation analysis of large power grids suitable for the high proportion of new energy in northwest China, and greatly improve the delivery end of high proportion of new energy. Large power grid system characteristics cognition and simulation analysis level. In terms of improving the active support capabilities of new energy, the country's first initiative to optimize the transient performance of new energy has been carried out. The scale of UHV DC near-field transformation in Shaanxi, Wuhan and Qingyu has exceeded 15 million kilowatts, and the cumulative output of new energy has increased by 5.2 million kilowatts. In terms of improving the level of lean control, the company pioneered data-driven new energy centralized transmission cascade section typical method extraction and quota customization technology, which has been deeply applied in areas such as the Xinjiang-Northwest Network Channel, and has increased the transmission capacity of the network channel by 1.6 million kilowatts. The channel utilization rate is about 8 percentage points. In terms of improving scientific and technological innovation capabilities, it took the lead for the first time in the State Grid Corporation of China's new solar energy system science and technology research action plan, innovative research on improving the transient support capacity of high-proportion new energy at the transmission end, and overall planning to solve the temporary problems of high-proportion new energy and ultra-high voltage DC coupling systems. Stability issues. At present, Northwest Power Grid has achieved "three improvements" in new energy power generation, utilization rate and power generation proportion for seven consecutive years, and key indicators such as installed capacity penetration rate, power penetration rate and power generation proportion have overall reached "three leading" levels.