SkyFuel has signed an agreement for the construction of a 50 MWe concentrating solar power (CSP) plant at a site near Huludao in China. The plant will use SkyFuel’s advanced, low-cost parabolic trough concentrating solar collector (the SkyTrough®) to supply heat to a standard steam driven power plant. The agreement was signed with Project Developer Huludao Ruixinda Industry Co., the State-owned Assets Supervision & Administration Commission (SASAC), and the US-China Economic and Cultural Development Alliance (US-China ECDA). The plant will provide clean, carbon-free electricity to the growing city of Huludao, about 400 km east of Beijing.

“We are eager to see clean, renewable power being made for our city of Huludao,” said BoHua Wu, President & General Manager of the Huludao Ruixinda Industry Company. “This project will be a showcase for concentrating solar power in China.”

Together with SASAC and US-China ECDA, SkyFuel is pursuing other opportunities throughout China for bringing dispatchable solar power to meet the rapidly growing need for electricity. Other projects in development include fuel switching of existing fossil-fired power plants with clean solar energy.