The Shigatse Photovoltaic Power Plant ( zh, s=日喀则太阳能光伏电站, p=rìkāzé tàiyángnéng guāngfú diànzhàn) is a

solar power plant A photovoltaic power station, also known as a solar park, solar farm, or solar power plant, is a large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic power system (PV system) designed for the supply of merchant power. They are different from most building ...

located 3 km northwest of

Shigatse Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê () or Rikaze ( zh, s=日喀则, p=Rìkāzé), is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its area of jurisdiction, with an area of , corresponds to the histo ...

, the second largest city in

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. It was connected to the grid in July 2011.

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The plant sits in the industrial photovoltaic area of Shigatse about 3 km northwest of the city in the Xigaze

Prefecture A prefecture (from the Latin word, "''praefectura"'') is an administrative jurisdiction traditionally governed by an appointed prefect. This can be a regional or local government subdivision in various countries, or a subdivision in certain inter ...

, at an altitude of 3895 meters. According to

Suntech Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. () is a Chinese producer of solar panels, with of annual production capacity by the end of 2011. It is headquartered in Wuxi, Jiangsu. Shunfeng International Clean Energy Limited, a HKSE listed renewable energy ...

CEO, “with intense sunlight and cool temperatures, Tibet is extremely well-suited for the utilisation of advanced photovoltaic technology”. Tibet has abundant solar energy with more than 3,000 hours of sunshine annually. Construction was undertaken by the Linuo Power Group, a provider of solar photovoltaic panels with headquarters in the

Shandong Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...

province; the province has provided funding under the assistance program "Tibet2". The solar projects are intended to ease local power shortages. Panels are mounted on screw piles driven into the soil to a depth of 1.5 m, thus avoiding the use of concrete slabs.Synopsis of a CCTV program on the Shigatse photovoltaic power plant
''cctv.com'', July 6, 2011. The plant covers 30 hectares, and was connected to the grid in July 2011. It is expected to produce up to 20 million

kWh A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a non-SI unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules (MJ) in SI units, which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour. Kilowatt-hours are a common b ...

per year. In 2012, two other power projects were under construction in the industrial photovoltaic area of Shigatse, one by

LDK Solar LDK Solar Co. Ltd., previously located in Xinyu City, Jiangxi province in the People's Republic of China, manufactured multicrystalline solar wafers used in solar cells, and provided wafering services for both monocrystalline and multicrystalli ...

(60 MW), the other by Chaorisolar (10 MW).

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