On March 6, China's concentrated solar power (CSP) sector achieved a milestone. The 10MW and 100MW CSP stations owned by Dunhuang SOFAR (hereinafter referred to as the Dunhuang SOFAR CSP Project) have completed the registration for voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction. The system shows that the emission reductions of these two CSP stations from 2021 to 2024 exceeded 500,000 tons of CCER (Chinese Certified Emission Reductions), with specific amounts of 30,925 tons and 471,865 tons, respectively. This is the first CSP station to complete the national voluntary carbon emission reduction registration, filling the gap in CCER projects in the CSP sector.
The two projects of Dunhuang SOFAR utilize molten salt tower CSP technology to achieve stable power supply around the clock through a solar heat collection system and a long-duration molten salt thermal storage system.
In addition to these two CSP projects, as of March 6, six offshore wind power projects across the country have also passed the CCER registration, with an estimated total emission reduction of nearly a million tons.
According to the "Administrative Measures for Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Transactions (Trial)," the emission reductions of registered projects are called "Certified Voluntary Emission Reductions," which are the trading products of the national voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction trading market. The next step is that the registered project emission reductions can be entered into the trading system for transactions.
