10 NEWS IN BRIEF


CHINA INCREASES ITS SOLAR CAPACITY China has added a record capacity


of new solar in 2017, with much of it being accounted for by rooftop solar power. The country added 24 GW of


capacity in the first half amid a push by policymakers to locate electricity production near the point where it’s used. Distributed solar power proj- ects – the kind of solar found on industrial buildings, malls and schools – accounted for almost a third of the new installations in the period, or 7 GW, Xing Yiteng, deputy section chief in the new energy divi- sion at the National Energy Administration, said on Wednesday at a conference in Beijing. At its present rate China is in line


to break the 30 GW of new solar capacity it added in 2016.


TOYOTA TRIALS HYBRID FUEL CELL


TURBINES Toyota has begun trials in Japan of


a hybrid power system combining a solid oxide fuel cell and a gas-fired microturbine. The 250 kW system is installed at the firm’s Motomachi plant in Toyota City, Aichi prefecture, and provides power and heat for the plant. A combined heat and power unit is included. According to Toyota, the system’s generating efficiency is 55% and its overall efficiency is boosted to 65% with the CHP unit. The trial aims to test the system's energy efficiency, performance, and durability. Toyota jointly developed the system


with its subsidiary Toyota Turbine and Systems as well as Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems. The project is part of an initiative of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).


TWO COGENERATION PLANTS IN CHINA WILL USE THE MGT-SERIES GAS TURBINES


MAN Diesel & Turbo has won orders for


two cogeneration plants in China. The plants will be built in collaboration with MAN’s Chinese EPC partner Liyu and delivered to subsidiaries of Chinese energy firm the ENN Group.


for local production processes in the form of process steam, MAN said. Both plants will be based on MGT-series gas turbines. MAN reports that it has delivered “a number of projects” to China to replace coal-fired power plants in support of government emissions and efficiency targets.


“MAN is reflecting the trend towards


efficient and flexible energy production with cogeneration worldwide,” Holger Kube, vice-president, sales power generation with the turbomachinery business init, told IPA.


The MGT series of gas turbines showed One plant, which will be optimized for


natural gas-fired operation, will provide 6 MWe and 13 MWth for an industrial zone in Guangdong Province. A second plant will provide the same amount of power and heat for a paper mill in Jiangsu province. Surplus heat from the gas turbine alternator packs will be used


particularly impressive results when used at the Rehden compressor station operated by GASCADE Gastransport GmbH, one of Germany's largest gas transportation companies. Here, an MGT 6200 two-shaft turbine drives a new centrifugal compressor (MAN RV 050) thereby increasing the station's natural gas transportation capacity by a considerable margin..


NEW FUEL CELLS


SYSTEMS FOR JAPAN Japan’s Kyocera - a company which has earned a repuration for supplying fuel cell stacks for residential cogeneration systems - has released its own home- produced commercial feul cells. Kyocera has introduced its first 3 kW fuel cell cogeneration units to the Japan- ese market, with further expansion to the global market on the cards. The company claims its systems - which possess a generation efficiency of 52%, can produce power and heat 20% more efficiently than current commercial systems. According to the company, its first models are aimed at commercial customers such as restaurants, hospitals


Independent Power Asia August-September 2017


and care homes, with residential units to be rolled out eventually. The company is distributing its cogeneration systems through Osaka Gas, which has already been using Kyocera’s fuel cell stacks in its residential systems. The two companies have been recently collaborating on fuel cell development.


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