Hi readers! Are you familiar with Solar power? Certainly yes. Here is the advancement that perhaps you are not familiar with.
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On January 25th, 2024, China reportedly said that she achieved a new milestone in solar power tower project. Placed below are some of the details.
The Aksai Huidong: the New Energy solar farm (The Aksai Huidong) is China’s largest solar power tower project that has completed its panel field comprising 11,960 heliostats.
A heliostat is a device that includes a plane mirror, which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating for the Sun’s apparent motions in the sky. The target may be a physical object, distant from the heliostat, or a direction in space. The use of these advanced heliostats contributes to the efficiency and effectiveness of the solar power generation process.
The project along with this cutting-edge technology separately employed Chinese introduced pentangular heliostats, each weighing up to 1.2 tones with a capacity to cover 48 square meters, to receive focused sunlight through the tower. The solar farm is expected to generate 1700 GWh annually thereby saving 507,000 tons of standard coal that can cut 1.47 million tons of carbon dioxide emission every year which is equivalent to afforesting nearly 800 million.
(GWh is abbreviation of Gigawatt hours and is a unit of energy representing one billion (1 000 000 000) watt hours and is equivalent to one million kilowatt hours which means a power plant with a capacity of 1 GW could power approximately 876,000 households for one year if they collectively consume 10,000 kWh each, assuming the plant operates continuously throughout the year.
Pakistan has 37.5 million households as of 2020.
This means that IGW can provide electricity round the year to approximately 4 families of seven people living in an area of 78.91 m2 and consuming 2469 kWh per year(352kWh per person).
Considering that in 2021, almost 95% of the population of Pakistan which is equal to 229.42 million of the total 241,49 million population) had access to electricity.
Considering the thumb rule that each household on the averages require 1 kw continuous consumption, one can imagine how much electricity is required for our 229.42 % of population already using electricity and how much extra is require for the remaining 12.04 million?
Can we get help from China to install such heliostats in our Thal and Thar area to meet our current electricity demand keeping in mind the future growth?
If India can construct a solar power plant in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan (The Bhadla Solar Park) which covers an area of 56 square kilometers and has a total installed capacity of 2,245 megawatts (MW), making it the largest solar park in the world as of 2023, why can’t we?
Off course we can, and China will also help provided we are sincere to us (which by and large we are not) and negotiate with China with even more sincerity.
We have people with sound expertise in such hard negotiations. Think about that.
See you next week, Bye.
