4600 meters above sea level! ＂Water-light Complementary＂ Kela Phase I Photovoltaic Power Station was officially put into operation for power generation.

CCTV News:Today (June 25th), the world’s largest and highest water and light complementary project — — The first-phase photovoltaic power station in Kela was officially put into operation to generate electricity, which is the first time to raise the global scale of "water-light complementarity" to million kilowatts, and explore a new way for the integrated development of water and scenery all over the world. In the future, through linkage with Lianghekou Hydropower Station, the power station will continuously send stable electric energy to Sichuan and Chongqing.

The first-phase photovoltaic power station of Kela is located in Yajiang County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, with an installed capacity of 1 million kilowatts. It is the first-phase project of "Water and Light Complementation" of Lianghekou Hydropower Station in Yalong River. The highest altitude of the site is 4600 meters, which is also the highest water and light complementary project in the world.

Water-light complementarity is to connect photovoltaic to hydropower station and use hydropower to adjust the fluctuation of photovoltaic power generation. Take Kela Photovoltaic as an example. When the light is good and the photovoltaic power station has strong power generation capacity, Lianghekou Hydropower Station will reduce power generation and store water. When the photovoltaic power generation capacity is weakened due to cloudy and rainfall factors, Lianghekou Hydropower Station draws water to generate electricity and increase hydropower output. Through the linkage of the two, the power station can output safer and more stable electric energy, and solve the problem of photovoltaic power generation "depending on the weather".

Yang Zhiwei, Project Manager of Guotou Yalong River Hydropower Kela Hydro-Photovoltaic Complementary Power Station:The average annual output of Kela Power Station is 2 billion kWh, which can supply electricity to more than 700,000 households for one year. These clean electric energy can save over 600,000 tons of coal and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by over 1.6 million tons every year.

The first phase photovoltaic power station in Kela is an important part of the clean energy base in Yalong River Basin. At present, the production scale of the base has exceeded 20 million kilowatts. It is estimated that by 2030, the total scale of clean energy base in Yalong River Basin will reach about 50 million kilowatts.