December 2009.

Northern California Solar Waiting for the results they wanted.

The Department of Energy agreed to build a power plant in Qiongzhou, but the entire cost would be borne by the Northern California company alone, not as a government cooperation project.

In order to show the sincerity of Party Z, the relevant departments also gave them great help in land acquisition in Qiongzhou.

Lingshui County, located in the southern part of Qiongzhou Province, has prepared 10 square kilometers of tidal flats and slopes for the Northern California Solar Energy Company to be used for the construction of solar power plants.

Qiongzhou is the southernmost province in China.

The total area of the island is 33,900 square kilometers, and the outline of the island resembles an oval-shaped large Sydney.

Although geographically speaking, Qiongzhou also belongs to the south, and Guangdong is only separated by a strait.

But in fact, Qiongzhou's economic status in China has not received much attention since ancient times.

In ancient times, it was said that it was the farthest and poorest place in the south.

It has always been used as a place of exile for prisoners.

In modern times, Qiongzhou was under the jurisdiction of Guangdong.

It was not until 1988 that Qiongzhou was officially established as a province.

It is also a southern province, where there are many ethnic minorities due to its backward infrastructure.

Therefore, economic development has not been able to get on the right track for a long time.

In the 90s, the main economic pillar of the city was still agriculture.

As the southernmost point of China and the only tropical island region, Qiongzhou Island is one of the few unpolluted areas in the world.

The local tourism resources are very rich.

Many people have heard of the ends of the earth of "Siya" and have come here to play in the water and sunbathe on the beach.

As a result, tourism has gradually become one of the pillar industries in Qiongzhou.

In the late nineties, Qiongzhou invested heavily in infrastructure construction, the Ring Island Expressway was completed and opened to traffic, and the urban and rural roads were also built into a network.

With the commissioning of the cross-sea railway bridge, the Guangdong-Haihai Bridge connects Qiongzhou Island with the mainland, and the economy has finally shown signs of rapid development.

At the same time, in order to vigorously support the economic construction of Qiongzhou, the state has introduced some high-tech industries to Qiongzhou Island.

The original industrial model based on resource development, hydropower construction, and fishery and aquatic product processing has been upgraded to a higher level.

Many biomedical, aerospace, electronics, automobile and foreign-funded enterprises have come to Qiongzhou to inspect and set up factories.

However, the infrastructure construction in Qiongzhou started late after all.

In particular, the power supply cannot keep up with the speed of economic development, which has become a weakness restricting the development of industry and commerce in the province.

The topography of Qiongzhou is high in the middle and low and flat all around.

Hydropower resources are abundant.

Therefore, when the construction was originally planned, it was based on the development of local hydropower resources, and many large and small hydropower stations were built.

However, although the water resources in the Qiongzhou area are abundant, the mountains are not very high, the drop is limited, and the use of hydropower is also greatly restricted.

Moreover, due to its tropical location, water evaporates quickly, and in many cases, there is not enough water flow to generate electricity.

Therefore, Qiongzhou's electricity supply mainly relies on thermal power plants for power supply.

Although Qiongzhou is rich in various mineral resources, it has important strategic resources such as oil and natural gas.

However, the coal mines used for thermal power generation in Qiongzhou still have to be transported from other places.

Not to mention that thermal power generation will cause pollution to Qiongzhou, a natural tourist resort, it is not easy to build a large-scale thermal power station, and it is also necessary to travel long distances to transport raw materials.

The Qiongzhou power grid generates 16 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year, but it is still far from meeting the economic needs of the whole province, so it has to transfer power from the Southern Power Grid such as Guangdong.

It is precisely because of this that after research and discussion, it was decided to arrange the Northern California Solar Energy Company to settle down in Qiongzhou.

According to their annual calculation of 2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per square kilometer, the annual power generation of five square kilometers can reach 10 billion kilowatt-hours, and with the power supply of the power grid, it can basically meet the power supply of the whole province.

They don't stretch out their hands to ask for electricity, but they can also let the power demand in the Pearl River Delta and other places breathe a little sigh of relief and alleviate the tight power supply.

This is the idea of the Ministry of Energy, and they are also afraid that they are wishful thinking.

Therefore, when seeking the opinion of the Northern California Solar Energy Company, it is also cautious.

After all, it's a one-time investment.

If their solar power plant is not built, there is naturally nothing to say.

However, once it is completed and put into use, sufficient power supply will inevitably promote the rapid economic development of Qiongzhou.

After the economy has grown, it will not be so easy for Northern California Solar Energy to find cheap land and expand the scale of power plants.

This is tantamount to limiting the power supply of Northern California Solar Energy to Qiongzhou, and at most a small amount of electricity demand in Guangdong.

After it is completed and put into production, there is no problem if you want to survive on a foothold.

All the electricity can be absorbed by Qiongzhou, but if you want to expand your business and expand the power supply to the entire southern region, this area is obviously not enough.

Moreover, there is no possibility of further expansion.

The representatives of Party Z and the board of directors of the Northern California Solar Energy Company toasted at the wine table, and when everyone was in high spirits, they tentatively explained their arrangements.

"Qiongzhou?"

"Nice place! Now we are relieved, hahahaha! ”

Hearing the place that Party Z had chosen for them, all the board members stopped their glasses, ignored the ongoing banquet, and immediately asked people to bring a map to compare.

These days, they also studied a lot of construction sites.

Qiongzhou is their first choice.

Since they want to develop on a large scale in China, they will of course seriously study China's solar energy resources.

In China, the first region of solar energy resources is the west, which is also the second largest region in the world with abundant solar resources, reaching a daily radiation of 7 kilowatt hours per square meter.

Qiongzhou only belongs to the third-class solar energy area.

However, its proximity to China's most economically developed areas allows it to be sold for higher prices without the need to transport electricity over long distances.

Relatively speaking, under the same cost, they are still more inclined to choose Qiongzhou.

A feast, everyone rejoices.

The Northern California Solar Energy Company got the land they expected to build, and they did not want to delay for a quarter of an hour, and immediately set off for Lingshui, Qiongzhou, accompanied by relevant personnel.

We are preparing to start construction of a solar power plant immediately.

On their first day in Lingshui, they left their belongings at the hotel and went non-stop to check out where the future solar power plant would be built.

Stand on a high place.

As far as the eye can see, there are tidal flats and slopes everywhere.

The closer the land is to the sea, the more salinization will become.

Cannot be used as farming.

In this area, there are not many families, only a few small fishing villages.

From the beach to the land, there are hills tens of meters high everywhere, stretching for up to four or five kilometers.

Standing on top of the hills, as far as the eye can see.

The sun is scorching overhead, and the beach in the distance looks like a long white belt, dozens of kilometers away, only to be blocked by the mountains.

Form a small bay.

"Mr. Thomas, what do you think of this land?"

"In the 90s, there used to be real estate developers who built villas here, but then because they couldn't be sold and fell into disrepair, they became the dilapidated appearance they are now."

The local escort from Lingshui County said to Thomas with a smile.

Thomas looked at the rolling hills, his face a little ugly.

He snorted coldly, pointed to the hills dozens of meters high, and said very dissatisfiedly: "Mr. Wang, is this the land you chose for us?" ”

"Look at it, it's all rolling hills! How does this make our solar panels? ”

"Also, although these hills are not high, as the angle of the sun changes, they will also block part of the sunlight, so how can our solar panels receive solar energy?"

"The ten square kilometers of land you have allocated to us, except for three or four square kilometers near the sea, which are flat saline-alkali land, are basically all such hills."

"Actually, we only get seven or eight square kilometers of land at most, how can this work!"

Representatives of the Ministry of Energy also leaned into the ears of the Lingshui County escort and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter with you?" Didn't I tell you that there should be enough land for them? ”

"What do you let people use these hills?"

"Even if you don't understand solar energy, you should know that if you can't shine on the sun, everything is in vain, right?"

The escort from Lingshui County also said with a wry smile: "Director Wang, don't you know that although the economic development of our Qiongzhou is relatively slow, it also has a population of 10 million. ”

"There's a lot of open space, but it's actually very scattered."

"Moreover, we have a large number of ethnic minorities here, and they all occupy an area in the east and a west, so we can't interfere."

"If you want vacant land, let alone ten square kilometers, we also have one hundred square kilometers, but if you want to connect together, there is only this piece of tidal flat saline-alkali land."

Director Wang frowned, looked around, and said in a deep voice: "Why don't we give them all these saline-alkali lands by the sea?" I think there are also more than ten or twenty square kilometers. ”

"No! Director Wang, although this saline-alkali land is almost ten kilometers long and two or three kilometers wide, Baoting County next door has already planned it out and granted it to a rubber factory."

The escort of Lingshui County complained in embarrassment.

"What then? We promised them that we would choose a suitable piece of land for them! Aren't you tearing down my platform? Director Wang was also depressed and said angrily:

"I have informed you a long time ago, this is a national key energy project, and the land must be prepared for us! Now, what are you doing here? ”

The escort from Lingshui County wiped the sweat from his forehead, hurriedly stepped aside, took out his phone, and reported to the county.