The Chinese energy company China Huadian Corporation has begun construction on a 19.24 GW high-altitude, multi-energy project in Golmud, in China’s western province of Qinghai. The CNY80bn (US$11bn) Qaidam Golmud project will feature mostly renewables, with 85% of the planned capacity being made up by solar and wind, but also coal-fired power, with the deployment of four 660 MW ultra-supercritical coal units, already approved by the Qinghai Development and Reform Commission. In addition, the project will feature a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS).
China Huadian plans to complete the project by 2027. Once completed, the complex will be able to transmit 36.5 TWh/year of electricity to the Guangxi province (southern China) via an 800 kV ultra-high-voltage (UHV) direct current transmission line, the “Qinghai-Guangxi UHV DC Project”, currently being developed by State Grid Corporation of China.
Earlier in March 2025, the Chinese National Energy Administration (NEA) unveiled its 2025 energy work guidelines, in which China plans to add over 200 GW of renewable energy capacity during the course of 2025. In 2024, China already installed record capacity for solar and wind, with renewable capacity additions accounting for 86% of the newly installed capacity.
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