Tower CSP at Tangshan Haitai’s massive solar park runs a record 96 hours straight

<div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_30820"><a href="https://www.solarpaces.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Shouhang-HiTech-CSP-Tower-at-Tangshan-Haitai.png"><img alt="Shouhang HiTech CSP Tower at Tangshan Haitai" class="size-full wp-image-30820" height="477" src="https://www.solarpaces.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Shouhang-HiTech-CSP-Tower-at-Tangshan-Haitai.png" width="750" /></a><h3 class="wp-caption-text">Shouhang HiTech 100 MW CSP Tower at Tangshan Haitai</h3></div>
<p>During a trial run in April, 2026, one of the most recent new CSP projects in China, the 100MW tower CSP project at Tangshan Haitai&#8217;s 1 GW Qiquanhu PV Industrial Park, set an operation record.</p>
<p>It ran continuously and safely around the clock for 96 hours straight, with daily generation exceeding 1 million kWh, according to an <a href="https://en.sh-ihw.com/news_Detail/61.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">update </a> from solar field supplier Shouhang Hi-Tech.</p>
<p><em><strong>&#8220;The 72-hour trial operation of the unit started at 0: 04 on April 7th and ended at 0: 23 on April 11th, and it has been running safely and stably for 96h continuously, successfully fulfilling the set goal of continuous operation at full load for over 4h,&#8221;</strong></em> Shouhang noted in its report.</p>
<p>The 100 MW CSP project, located at the Qiquanhu PV Industrial Park in Turpan City, Xinjiang had had its initial commissioning checks in September 2025, per <a href="http://en.cnste.org/news/detail/1420.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">CSTA</a>.</p>
<p>The 100 MW tower CSP forms the dispatchable core of a 1GW hybrid solar complex, firming up the co-located PV at the renewable energy park, like virtually all new CSP in China.</p>
<p><em><strong>&#8220;The synergy markedly raises overall generation efficiency, system stability and power-supply quality, curbs renewable-energy curtailment, and offers a new route to overcoming bottlenecks in the development of large-scale renewable-energy bases, advancing a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient modern energy system,&#8221; </strong></em>added Shouhang.</p>
<p>Tangshan Haitai, a hi-tech firm on the Beijing stock exchange, supplies all the associated 900 MW of PV. Haitai Solar is recognized as a BloombergNEF Tier 1 module manufacturer.</p>
<p>China Petroleum Engineering &amp; Construction (CPECC Northwest), a CSTA vice-chairman unit is the General Contractor.</p>
<p>The thermal energy storage (12 hours) was designed and built by Bluestar (Beijing) Chemical Machinery, a subsidiary of Sinochem Holdings. Bluestar has supplied <a href="https://www.solarpaces.org/key-chinese-molten-salt-storage-tank-manufacturers/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">15 thermal storage systems</a> to CSP projects over the last decade.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.solarpaces.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Bluestar-Chemical-Machinery-Beijing.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-30790" height="652" src="https://www.solarpaces.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Bluestar-Chemical-Machinery-Beijing.png" width="720" /></a></p>
<p>Shouhang HiTech, whose <a href="https://www.solarpaces.org/solar-energy-record-mongolian-csp-generated-round-the-clock/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Urat Trough CSP project</a> in Inner Mongolia also broke generation records, has supplied the solar collection side; the heliostats, receivers and automated collection. Recently, Shouhang supplied the solar collection for the China Three Gorges Renewables 100 MW tower CSP at Golmud in Qinghai Province.</p>
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