Ordos city warms the future with new energy

Against the backdrop of the "dual carbon" goals, new energy has emerged as another pillar industry in Ordos city, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

In recent years, Ordos has worked hard to establish the nation's first zero-carbon industrial park, the region's first carbon-neutral research institute, and a new energy experimental center.

Meanwhile, the largest-scale Envision power battery project in the northern region has begun production in Ordos, alongside the groundbreaking of the world's largest wind and solar power base project in the city's sandy lands and deserts.

Furthermore, the first 10,000-metric-ton new energy hydrogen production project has been completed and put into operation in Ordos.

Determined to dominate the new energy sector as a new economic growth driver, Ordos has unveiled a series of policies such as the "Supporting Industrial Cluster Development Policy" and the "Guiding Opinions on State-Owned Capital Supporting the Wind-Solar-Hydrogen-Storage Industry."

According to the plan, during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period, Ordos plans to construct a "photovoltaic Great Wall" that stretches approximately 400 kilometers along the northern edge of the Kubuqi Desert and south of the Yellow River.

With an average width of about 5 km and a site area of around 2,000 square kilometers, this project can accommodate an installed capacity of 100GW.

By the end of 2025, the city's new energy installed capacity is set to exceed 50 million kW, with its wind, solar, hydrogen, storage and vehicle industries set to have a total output value that surpasses 500 billion yuan ($68.49 billion).