{"id":12892,"date":"2017-07-04T08:23:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T21:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=12892"},"modified":"2024-08-06T13:21:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T03:51:04","slug":"panda-power-plant-solar-mb0109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panda-power-plant-solar-mb0109\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage One Of Panda Solar Power Plant Up And Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12893\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12893\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/panda-power-plant-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Panda Power Plant - Solar Farm\" width=\"700\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/panda-power-plant-solar.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/panda-power-plant-solar-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Datong Panda Power Plant &#8211; Artist&#8217;s Impression<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The initial phase of the world\u2019s first Panda Power Plant in Datong, Shanxi province, China has been officially connected to the grid.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Panda Green Energy Group Limited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leadingedgeenergy.com.au\/blog\/panda-solar-farms\/#:~:text=This%20led%20to%20the%20construction,grid%20in%20June%20of%202017.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> last week 50MW of the 100MW project is now exporting solar electricity. When complete, the company says the facility will generate 3.2 billion kWh of electricity over 25 years, equivalent to avoiding the burning of 1.056 million tons of coal and 2.74 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The darker parts of the solar farm&#8217;s layout are made up of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/photovoltaic\/monocrystalline\/\"> monocrystalline solar panels<\/a> and the lighter areas are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/photovoltaic\/thin-film\/\"> thin film solar modules<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Similar plants will be constructed by Panda Green Energy over the next 5 years in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/About_Parliament\/Parliamentary_Departments\/Parliamentary_Library\/pubs\/BriefingBook45p\/ChinasRoad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Belt and Road<\/a>&#8221; countries under its Panda 100 Program. The company has also reached strategic cooperation agreements with the Republic of Fiji, the Republic of the Philippines and other developing countries to jointly promote the concept. Fiji\u2019s Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama has said he hopes to have a Panda Power Plant in his country soon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12894\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12894\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/panda-solar-fiji.jpg\" alt=\"Panda shaped solar power plant for Fiji\" width=\"660\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/panda-solar-fiji.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/panda-solar-fiji-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiji Panda Power Plant Concept<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Panda Power Plant project was incorporated into the action plan promoting \u201cBelt and Road\u201d construction signed by the Chinese government and the United Nations in May this year.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and China Merchants New Energy (Panda Green Energy&#8217;s major shareholder) launched a global promotion program of panda-shaped solar power plants in September last year. Part of that program will see the two\u00a0working together to promote new energy via youth summer camps and open innovation design contests.<\/p>\n<p>In China, the panda is regarded as a symbol of friendship and peace.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Panda Green Energy (then known as United PV), connected 100MW of (non-panda shaped) solar projects in Datong. These are part of China&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/chinas-top-runner-program\/\">Top Runner<\/a> Program, which mandates a certain amount of solar farm capacity\u00a0is constructed each year using panels meeting Top Runner efficiency standards.<\/p>\n<p>United PV won the 2016 Chinese Top Runner Outstanding Enterprises Award and the Datong project was also nominated for the &#8220;Best Solar Power Plants in 2016&#8221; award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initial phase of the world\u2019s first Panda Power Plant in Datong, Shanxi province, China has been officially connected to the grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":12893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stage One Of Panda Solar Power Plant Up And Running - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The initial phase of the world\u2019s first Panda Power Plant in Datong, Shanxi province, China has been officially connected to the grid.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panda-power-plant-solar-mb0109\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stage One Of Panda Solar Power Plant Up And Running\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The initial phase of the world\u2019s first Panda Power Plant in Datong, Shanxi province, China has been officially connected to the grid.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panda-power-plant-solar-mb0109\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-07-03T21:53:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-06T03:51:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/panda-power-plant-solar.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"448\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panda-power-plant-solar-mb0109\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panda-power-plant-solar-mb0109\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Stage One Of Panda Solar Power Plant Up And Running\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-07-03T21:53:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-06T03:51:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panda-power-plant-solar-mb0109\/\"},\"wordCount\":374,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panda-power-plant-solar-mb0109\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/panda-power-plant-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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