Chinese company builds new energy storage power station to better harness solar power

This aerial photo taken on June 18, 2023 shows straw checkerboards, a local method to prevent the sand from moving, in the Ulan Buh Desert in Dengkou County in Bayannuur, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. HOHHOT -- Inner Mongolia Energy Group has started constructing a large-scale new energy storage power station in the Ulan Buh Desert, the eighth-largest in China, to better harness new energy power for grid connection. Designed with a capacity of 605,000 kilowatts, the project is the largest single energy storage power station under construction in the country. According to the energy bureau in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in addition to the economic benefit of producing green electricity, the new energy storage power station built in the Ulan Buh Desert hinterland with photovoltaic power generating facilities has ecological and social benefits for combatting desertification. The energy storage power station built in Dengkou boasts photovoltaic power generating facilities with an annual capacity of generating 3.16 billion kWh of electricity, contributing to carbon dioxide emission reduction by 2.75 million tonnes annually while making ecological treatment of about 44,600 mu sand area.