Taixing city, administered by Taizhou in East China's Jiangsu province, has been promoting its photovoltaic industry by installing photovoltaic panels on roofs of some enterprises and rural houses.
In September 2021, Taixing was elected to be a pilot city for the development of the photovoltaic industry. One of the city's practices is to utilize the idle rural roofs of residents to generate the photovoltaic power.
The idle roofs and good lighting conditions in Taixing are ideal for the development of household photovoltaic systems. [Photo/WeChat account: txfabu]
In Shilidian village of Yaowang sub-district, Dai Mingsheng, a local villager, invested nearly 40,000 yuan ($5,613) to install photovoltaic equipment last year.
"Since the installation, I no longer need to pay for electricity and the remaining electricity can be used to connect to the grid," said Dai Mingsheng.
Additionally, Jiangsu Cosine Electrical Co Ltd's 5-million-yuan roof distributed photovoltaic power generation project recently began operations in the Taixing High-tech Zone.
It is expected to save 1.5 million yuan in production costs annually and the project's investment will be recovered within three and a half years.
Photovoltaic panels are installed on the roofs of factories. [Photo/WeChat account: txfabu]
At present, the average daily photovoltaic power generation in Taixing is 510,000 kilowatt hours, with nearly 67,000 metric tons of standard coal saved and a reduction of 169,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
The city's power supply department will now focus on developing a digital management platform for photovoltaic power generation to simplify the filing and grid connection processes for photovoltaic projects, said Guo Huimin, account manager from the State Grid Corporation of China in Taixing.