Innovations continue to emerge in China on the road to using new energy sources.

On June 18, a 50-megawatt solar thermal power project in Hami, Xinjiang, harnessed solar thermal energy storage during the day to generate electricity in the absence of light at night, marking the project's achievement of 24-hour uninterrupted power generation.

The project is a demonstration solar thermal project in China, invested and built by China Energy Construction Investment Corporation.

The project has both power generation and energy storage functions, and is a green power source that can replace fossil energy power plants as base load and peak load, and plays an important role in ensuring safe, stable, and efficient operation of the power system.

After the project is fully put into operation, it can provide about 198.3 million kWh of electricity to the grid every year and save 61,900 tons of standard coal.

The project builder overcame several unfavorable factors and broke through technical bottlenecks to finally realize power generation at night without light, according to thepaper.cn.