Renewable Energy World | By: Jeff Yan | July 10, 2017:
As the country seeks to install energy generation capacity at lightning pace, China is looking at how smart technologies in large solar PV plants can help save time and money while increasing energy production.
As the private sector increasingly takes on the task of installing solar PV in China, growth is happening quickly. Last year China installed more solar capacity than any other country in the world at 34 GW, beating the US’s 14 GW and Europe’s 6.9 GW.
Neck and neck with the growth of PV is the growing use of digitization within the power industry. Manufacturers are installing cloud-connected sensors on equipment so that it can be remotely analyzed and controlled. And as this “internet of things,” or IOT, becomes ubiquitous in the power industry, so too will smart power plants.
At the intersection of IOT and solar PV is the “smart PV power plant,” a concept that the government of China would like to see implemented across the country, according to its recently published Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of “Internet Plus” Smart Energy, which sets a goal of increasing the proportion of renewable energy, promoting the clean and efficient use of fossil fuels, and advancing the energy market through industrial upgrades.
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Image Credit – Solar Farm by Michael Mees – Flickr – Creative Commons.
