Chapter 702: Business Opportunity!

Yang Jie is still very confident in the super project led by Dubai, the UAE is full of uninhabited tropical desert areas, the cost of land is extremely low, the sunshine is extremely abundant, and the development of solar energy has a unique advantage.

Now the solar power market is very small, and the cost of building solar power stations is very high, but I did not expect that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Caliph is interested in the technical strength of Huaxing Group in solar cells, and has begun to have an ambitious plan in the solar power station, which will convert these solar energy in the desert area of the United Arab Emirates into electricity and send it to Europe, intending to grab a big cake from the European energy market.

Many natural gas power plants in Europe are now in a state of loss, and many natural gas power plants are currently facing an existential crisis and have been shut down.

Due to the sharp drop in electricity prices in Europe in recent years, natural gas power generation is almost unprofitable, and the price of natural gas remains high, but the price of coal is very low, which seriously squeezes the profit margins of European natural gas power plants.

Now, these countries in Europe have launched coal-to-hydrogen projects to support the hydrogen fuel consumption of many fuel cell power stations.

Compared with fuel cell power stations, hydrogen fuel is still obtained through the process of producing hydrogen from coal and natural gas, which requires cost, while the sun is endless and free, but the cost of building a solar power station is very high, but the maintenance cost and personnel expenses after completion account for only a small part, basically the cost will be recovered within ten years, and then it is basically lying down to make money.

Although there are abundant natural gas resources in the Middle East, a large number of natural gas power stations have been built, and the electricity cost here can be as low as seven cents a kilowatt-hour, which can be said to be very cheap.

But His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Caliph has seen the vision decades later, which can be said to be a long-term vision.

Yang Jie also wants to use this solar energy project in Dubai to make a model project for these Middle Eastern countries to see.

Through decades of oil resources to bring a steady stream of wealth, most of these countries in the Middle East are very rich, although these countries have not achieved industrialization in the country, but in order to solve their own domestic infrastructure needs, or continue to invest a lot of money to engage in construction, which is also a huge market for Huaxing Group Company.

The Middle East itself has a huge demand for electricity, and Yang Jie also used this project to show these Middle Eastern tycoons that renewable energy has proven to be a lucrative option, which will naturally attract more and more Middle Eastern countries to invest in solar energy for new installed capacity.

Yang Jie's most real idea in his heart is that through the development of solar energy in the Middle East, the production capacity of gallium nitride can be rapidly expanded, so that the cost can be quickly reduced.

Compared with this super project, Dubai's project of producing hydrogen from natural gas and building a fuel cell power station can be launched almost immediately, which is not much technical difficulty for Huaxing Group, and Huaxing Group is also participating in the bidding.

In addition, Huaxing Group also wants to participate in the desalination project that is being vigorously built in these countries in the Middle East.

Huaxing Group has been at the world-class level in the design, production and manufacturing technology of proton exchange membrane, and has its own unique set of large-scale preparation equipment and technology, in addition to the electrochemistry research institute in catalytic converters and filters in recent years, and now the electrochemistry laboratory has made a great breakthrough in the technology of inorganic ceramic semipermeable membrane membrane.

Now these inorganic ceramic membranes have begun to be widely used in fuel cells, automobiles and a large number of equipment under Huaxing Group.

This kind of inorganic ceramic membrane has very high mechanical properties, can withstand very high pressure, and is also resistant to high temperature, good chemical stability, can resist acid, alkali and organic solvents, and can be backwashed, strong anti-microbial ability, does not interact with microorganisms, and can be used in the field of bioengineering and medical science.

With this technology, Huaxing Group also moved the idea of entering the desalination project.

At present, there are more than 20 kinds of seawater desalination technologies in the world, including reverse osmosis, low-temperature multi-effect, multi-stage flash evaporation, electrodialysis, pressure steam distillation, dew point evaporation, hydropower co-generation, thermal film co-generation, and the use of nuclear energy, solar energy, wind energy, tidal energy desalination technology, etc., as well as microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration and other pretreatment and post-treatment processes.

However, at present, low-temperature multi-effect distillation, multi-stage flash evaporation and reverse osmosis membrane method are the mainstream technologies in the world.

The core components of these equipment are now mastered by Huaxing Group Company and the preparation process, and it is very easy to enter this field.

These countries in the Middle East attach great importance to seawater desalination technology, especially Saudi Arabia is also the world's largest seawater desalination country, accounting for 20% of the world's seawater desalination volume, its state-owned Saudi desalination company is the world's largest, its seawater desalination plant through a 5,000-kilometer pipeline to the city water, 70% of the country's drinking water from seawater desalination.

The main contradiction between the peoples of these countries in the Middle East has always been the contradiction between the people's growing water needs and the unbalanced and underdeveloped water supply.

These countries are generally extremely short of water and extremely water-consuming in the current situation, are to invest a lot of money to introduce seawater desalination technology, and then build a large number of seawater desalination treatment plants in the country to ensure people's daily water and industrial and agricultural water, but basically only to meet the needs of water.

Because most of the energy consumed by the desalination project here comes from oil, although the Middle East is rich in crude oil and the price of local oil is relatively low, it is still a loss-making business, after all, every barrel of oil consumed by desalination is equivalent to selling one less barrel of oil to other countries.

This also causes tap water in the Middle East to be very expensive, such as the price of tap water in Dubai, the price of a ton of water is as high as 18 yuan!

Water is more expensive than oil is a common phenomenon here, and in order to meet the growth of population and national development, the consumption of water resources in these countries will only increase, which is also destined to the Middle East countries in the number of desalination engineering plants more and more.

In a country like Saudi Arabia with the largest number of desalination plants, desalination plants in coastal areas not only provide desalinated water to Saudi Arabia's coastal cities all year round, but also supply water to some densely populated cities and areas in the interior with a shortage of drinking water.

These countries in the United Arab Emirates also have a large number of desalination projects to be launched, and these projects are huge business opportunities for Huaxing Group.