Chasing the wind and seizing opportunities day by day, improving the quality and upgrading of new energy, and outlining the new "scenery" of Xinjiang

Chasing the wind and chasing the sun, Xinjiang is striving to accelerate the construction of a green and low-carbon modern industrial system, and is fully racing on the green industry track such as new energy and new materials. Xinjiang, which has anchored the "dual carbon" goal, is still promoting the coupling and linkage development of industrial clusters such as new energy and energy storage, coal chemical industry, electric vehicles, and new materials. Industry chain companies will also inject vitality into the green development of Xinjiang's new energy industry through their technological research and innovation capabilities, making the beautiful scenery of Xinjiang even more beautiful

Starting from Urumqi, driving southeast for about 40 kilometers, the desert and Gobi gradually come into view, and the white "windmills" appearing on both sides of the road are particularly prominent. As the car continued to move, hundreds or even thousands of "windmills" lined up neatly in the vast desert, with huge blades creating elegant curves in the strong wind, creating a spectacular scene.

This is the city of Dabancheng, known as the "Chinese Wind Valley". The monsoon from Turpan Basin and the Junggar Basin forms a "narrow pipe effect" similar to the cross wind under the "compression" of the towering Tianshan Mountains on both sides of the canyon, creating an annual wind energy reserve of 25 billion kilowatt hours in Dabancheng. The existence of Dabancheng Wind Power Plant not only brings diversification and sustainability to the energy supply in Xinjiang, but also depicts a beautiful prospect for the high-quality development of Xinjiang's new energy industry.

At the beginning of this year, Xinjiang proposed to accelerate the construction of "eight major industrial clusters". Among them, vigorously developing strategic emerging industry clusters such as new energy and materials has been included in the work report of the autonomous region government, and will accelerate the promotion of new energy power generation and vigorously develop the silicon-based new materials industry. Building advantages in the new energy industry has become an important task for the transformation of Xinjiang's energy structure.

Accelerating and upgrading the installed capacity of new energy generation continues to increase

The weather in Tarim Basin in November is cool, but the sunshine is very good. In the 500000 kilowatt photovoltaic power generation project in Yecheng, covering an area of 15000 acres, one side of the blue photovoltaic panels shines brightly under the sunlight, continuously converting solar energy into green electricity.

On November 3rd, the Xinjiang Yecheng 500000 kilowatt photovoltaic power generation project, which is currently the largest external clean energy station built and installed in the Tarim Oilfield of PetroChina, was successfully connected to the grid in one go. It is understood that the annual power generation of this photovoltaic power generation project can reach 930 million kilowatt hours, and all the generated electricity will be transmitted to the State Grid for market-oriented consumption. The annual green electricity generated by the project is equivalent to replacing 300000 tons of standard coal, which can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 726000 tons.

If the 500000 kilowatt photovoltaic power generation project in Yecheng is a microcosm of Xinjiang's development of new energy through "light", then the Dabancheng wind power plant is a good demonstration of Xinjiang's new energy industry taking advantage of the "wind".

Dabancheng is one of the regions with the richest wind energy resources in China, known as the "Chinese Wind Valley". Its annual wind energy reserves reach 25 billion kilowatt hours, and the theoretical total installed capacity of wind power can reach 15 million kilowatts. In recent years, the development of the Dabancheng wind power industry has shifted gears and accelerated. Since the first wind farm was built in October 1989, the number of wind farms in Dabancheng has increased to nearly 60, and the total power generation of each wind farm reached 8.14 billion kilowatt hours in 2022.

Xinjiang, with its boundless scenery, has an important energy position and obvious geographical advantages. Ma Xingrui, Secretary of the Party Committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has repeatedly studied and deployed the development of energy resources in Xinjiang during frontline research, and pointed out that promoting the optimization, strengthening, and expansion of Xinjiang's energy resources, especially the clean energy industry, effectively serves the national energy strategy, and effectively supports high-quality development.

In recent years, Xinjiang's new energy industry, aimed at transforming resource advantages into industrial advantages, has accelerated its pace of upgrading, and the installed capacity of new energy has continuously achieved new breakthroughs. Shanghai Securities News learned from State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Company that as of November 4th, the installed capacity of new energy in Xinjiang has reached 60.383 million kilowatts, successfully breaking the 60 million kilowatt mark. Among them, wind power installed capacity is 31.335 million kilowatts and photovoltaic installed capacity is 29.048 million kilowatts. From January to September this year, Xinjiang added 13.69 million kilowatts of new energy installed capacity, ranking first in the country in terms of new grid connection scale.

Cluster development and industrial chain companies help "keep up with the times"

The northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains are picturesque. Entering the Chemical New Materials Industrial Park in Shihezi Economic and Technological Development Zone, neatly arranged factories and transportation vehicles shuttle back and forth on the main roads of the park. Thanks to the park's efforts in promoting industrial chain extension, resource recycling, and enterprise cluster combination, Daquan Energy, as a leader in the upstream of the photovoltaic industry chain, has risen from here.

As the only listed company on the Science and Technology Innovation Board in Xinjiang, Daquan Energy mainly engages in the research and development, production, and sales of polycrystalline silicon materials. "The park management committee has a blackboard newspaper that displays the circular economy industry chain in the park, with densely packed small squares painted on it. Centered around the photovoltaic industry, the small squares continue to expand outward. Industries or projects that are not in the park will be marked in red, and the management committee will make great efforts to attract investment until the red color is erased," Zhu Wengang, Vice President of Daquan Energy, told reporters, At present, the polycrystalline silicon production capacity of Daquan Energy Xinjiang Base is 135000 tons/year. As one of the participants in Xinjiang's new energy industry, he deeply feels Xinjiang's determination and confidence in building a full new energy industry chain through chain extension and strong expansion.

Taking Shihezi City, which focuses on developing silicon-based industries, as an example, the silicon-based industry in Shihezi Economic Development Zone has gathered well-known enterprises such as Daquan Energy, Hesheng Silicon Industry, Tianke Heda, and Xinjiang Huaxing Glass Co., Ltd., forming an industrial chain of "electricity industrial silicon polycrystalline silicon".

While photovoltaic new materials are flourishing, Xinjiang's new energy equipment industry is also continuously upgrading. Hami Jinfeng Wind Power Equipment Co., Ltd., a well-known domestic wind turbine manufacturer under Jinfeng Technology, mainly produces a new generation of medium speed permanent magnet series units. Currently, a wind power equipment industry cluster has been formed, including complete machine manufacturing and component supply.

"We have expanded the second phase project with an annual production capacity of 5 million kilowatts, which will further promote the quality and upgrading of Hami's wind power equipment manufacturing industry." The local person in charge of Goldwind Technology said that the local manufacturing rate of key components in Hami's wind power equipment industry has now reached over 70%, making it an important wind power equipment manufacturing base in China.

Chasing the wind and chasing the sun, Xinjiang is striving to accelerate the construction of a green and low-carbon modern industrial system, and is fully racing on the green industry track such as new energy and new materials. Xinjiang, which has anchored the "dual carbon" goal, is still promoting the coupling and linkage development of industrial clusters such as new energy and energy storage, coal chemical industry, electric vehicles, and new materials. Industry chain companies will also continuously inject vitality into the green development of Xinjiang's new energy industry through their technological research and innovation capabilities, making the beautiful scenery of Xinjiang even more beautiful.

A corner of Xinjiang Dabancheng Wind Farm