The city of Wenzhou – located in East China's Zhejiang province – is a place that doesn't particularly enjoy very many sunshine hours, but it's been seeing a great outburst of new energy technologies in recent years that have helped supply it with solar power.
The CHINT Cloud IoT Sensor Industrial Park in Yueqing. [Photo/WeChat account: wenzhoufabu]
The CHINT Cloud IoT Sensor (CIoTS) Industrial Park located in Yueqing – a county-level city administered by Wenzhou – has spearheaded the green efforts.
Solar panels installed on the roofs of the buildings in the park reportedly have an average annual power generation of nearly 400,000 kilowatt hours. What's more, they are expected to save more than 270,000 yuan ($41,931) a year in electricity bills.
The photovoltaic power generation system is connected to an intelligent energy management cloud platform which can monitor energy equipment and energy consumption in real time. It can also teach the system to be smarter by using big data and artificial intelligence technologies.
CHINT Group, a smart energy solutions provider based in Wenzhou, has also set up a solar power generation plant on tidal flats in Yueqing. It can generate 180 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 134,000 tons annually.
Under the photovoltaic panels they've successfully planted "sea rice" in saline-alkali soil, as a bold attempt to promote solar agriculture.
Some other enterprises are exploring building solar power farms for the fisheries industry.
