Chapter 1638: Solar Power Generation

"President Feng, good news, guess what it is?"

It must not be ordinary good news for Zong Qingxian to call in such an excited tone early in the morning.

Feng Yu thought about the situation of each company, and guessed: "Could it be that there is good news from Taihua Crystal Silicon?"

"Boss Feng, did you guess that too?"

Zong Qingxian wanted to make a fool of himself, but Feng Yu guessed it right away.

Feng Yuxin said that in the previous life, the photovoltaic industry exploded at this time, and even the crystalline silicon industry was also very popular.

Although in this life, China's crystalline silicon industry became popular earlier, but it can't make much money just by selling crystalline silicon. So they also produce some semiconductor components on electronic appliances, which can make more profits.

Although the price of crystalline silicon has risen once, the billions of dollars invested at the beginning have not yet been earned back.

Moreover, the production line planned at the beginning was obviously overcapacity. Zong Qingxian and the others had doubts. If Feng Yu hadn't said that he would definitely make money, they would have stopped expanding.

This policy was also triggered by Huaxia's environmental problems since last year. That is to vigorously develop renewable energy sources and reduce non-renewable energy sources with serious pollution such as coal and oil.

At this time, the coal price has risen to more than 400 yuan/ton, which was only 200 yuan three years ago. It is because the country wants to vigorously generate electricity and steel-making, etc., which has led to the rise in coal prices.

The same is true for oil. The current oil price has also increased a lot compared to last year, but it has not yet reached the fastest rising time, but it has also increased by more than 50% compared to the previous two years.

The rise in the price of these energy sources has prompted Huaxia to vigorously develop renewable energy sources, including solar energy, water, wind, etc., and the most basic one is to generate electricity.

So during this period of time, the country has planned several world-class large-scale hydropower stations, super-power stations similar to those of Sanxia.

In some coastal areas, tidal power is also being studied. In plateau areas, wind power and solar power are mainly studied. There are also some special areas to study geothermal power generation.

Among them, solar power generation is the most respected, because it can be applied not only in civilian applications, but also in the aerospace field.

For example, those satellites and space stations in space all use solar panels. Anyway, in space, you can still be exposed to the sun without being affected by the weather.

So here, solar power generation is the most important item. Not only has the least impact on the environment, but also the cleanest and inexhaustible energy source.

Both wind power and hydropower will cause certain damage to the local natural environment. For example, wind power needs to be located in a high place and some trees need to be cut down. Hydropower is even more serious. It is a huge project, and many villages and towns have to be relocated. The debate on the destruction of water, soil and vegetation has not yet come to fruition.

Solar energy is different. This has been used by people many years ago. Even when there was no vigorous development, many people have used solar water heaters and so on.

Therefore, many countries in the world, especially countries with relatively large energy consumption, have launched vigorous research on this.

Among them, the United States, Germany, Japan, Spain, Italy, France, the United Arab Emirates, India, and China have invested the most energy and achieved the most results.

As for why a big country like Russia is not ranked, it is because of their climate problem, which is really not suitable. They are more suitable for nuclear power and thermal power.

Since last year, solar power generation has been divided into two directions, one direction is thin film solar power generation, and the other direction is polysilicon solar photovoltaic power generation.

This polysilicon photovoltaic power generation is the new development direction of the crystalline silicon industry.

Taihua Crystal Silicon is the world's largest supplier of silicon mines. Not only has it signed a supply agreement with many silicon mines in Huaxia, the Polar Bear Mining Group has also acquired some silicon mines.

Although it is said that Taihua Crystal Silicon cannot price silicon ore or crystal silicon by itself,

However, if any other company wants to raise or lower prices, it must be approved by Taihua Crystal Silicon.

And when Taihua Crystal Silicon really wants to change the price, it only needs to contact a few companies a little bit, and it can do it. However, it is easy to be accused of monopoly in this way. The last price increase was also thanks to the help of the state.

Anyway, if Taihua Crystal Silicon made money, that means Huaxia made money. Not just taxation or something, but also because this can be used as a weapon of national diplomacy. Under normal circumstances, which country does not protect its own industry? Regardless of whether it is a state-owned company or a private company, if it belongs to Huaxia, it cannot be taken advantage of by outsiders!

China is also one of the earlier countries that focused on solar energy research. Although the technology has not reached the top of the world, it can still be called advanced.

Feng Yu assigned tasks to Taihua Crystal Silicon and Taihua Battery to study solar power generation and solar cells, and most importantly, require a high conversion rate.

At this time, the conversion rate of crystalline silicon solar power generation is between 15% and 30%, most of which are 15% to 20%, and the conversion efficiency is very low.

As for the conversion rate of thin-film solar energy, the best one has just reached 15% at this time, and the efficiency is even lower.

The current world record for the conversion rate of solar power is set by Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Research, which is just over 33%.

This is still theoretical, but in actual operation, the efficiency is even lower.

In order to study this in the past few years, Taihua Crystal Silicon, Taihua Battery and the national laboratory have jointly developed a new technology, and the conversion rate can exceed 30%.

Although there is still a gap from being number one in the world, it has already met Feng Yu's expectations. With this conversion rate, it can already be promoted on a large scale. What makes Feng Yu most satisfied is that the construction cost of their solar power plant is lower than that of Germany's technology, which is suitable for domestic promotion.

"Old Zong, I'm going to the laboratory tomorrow." Feng Yu said excitedly.

"Mr. Feng, the Chinese New Year will be the day after tomorrow. Let's go see it after the new year." Zong Qingxian was a little disapproving. Why are you in such a hurry?

"I can't wait, by the way, let the laboratory publish this data immediately, let the world know that we are already one of the top solar power generation countries in the world!"

There are times when breakthroughs need to be kept under wraps, but there are times when they must be advertised. Only in this way can they license their technology and sell their power stations and solar cells to make money.

After investing so much research and development costs, we must recover some, right?

The next step is to continue to make breakthroughs in technology, to lead the world and become the number one in the world!

... (To be continued.)