The desert 'power bank' that never sleeps
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Check out this impressive molten-salt solar thermal power plant in Dunhuang, Gansu Province. It employs over 12,000 heliostats to concentrate sunlight onto a 260‑meter tower. Equipped with thermal storage, it ensures consistent 24/7 power generation, producing 390 million kilowatt‑hours annually and reducing CO₂ emissions by 350,000 tons. As China's first 100-megawatt-class molten salt tower thermal power station with full intellectual property rights, it offers a reliable, dispatchable clean energy source.