Solar panels are installed on the rooftops of several plants at COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry (Zhoushan) Co in Zhoushan, East China's Zhejiang province, as part of the province's largest building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) project. [Photo/zj.zjol.com]
With solar panels installed on the rooftops of several plants and workers starting to fix the photovoltaic (PV) supporting brackets, the 19.9-megawatt rooftop distributed PV power generation project of the COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry (Zhoushan) Co has been undergoing steady progress recently.
The project, worth 120 million yuan ($17.89 million), is currently the largest building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) project in Zhejiang province.
Conducted under the cooperation between COSCO Zhoushan and Zhejiang Water Conservancy & Hydropower Investment Co, it will install solar panels on 200,000-square-meter rooftops of seven plants at the former company.
It applies the latest BIPV technology and is designed to realize 19.9 MW of the total installed capacity.
The project started construction in November 2018, and is expected to be completed by the middle of this year.
"We are doing this project as a response to the nation's call of promoting clean energies. The project will generate an annual energy output of 18 million kilowatt hours when completed," said Wang Jingwei, manager of the asset management department of COSCO Zhoushan.
According to a person in charge of the project, most of the power generated from the project will be used in ship building and repairing in the company, with the rest of the power to be connected to the State grid, so that the company will save around 3 million yuan on electricity costs.
COSCO Zhoushan in Liuheng town, Putuo district, Zhoushan was recently selected by local authorities as an environmentally-friendly ship repairing company. The project marks an important step for the company in pursuing a green-energy-driven growth, and propels the development of Liuheng town into an environmentally-friendly international foreign vessel repairing island.
