Photovoltaic Carports at Jinan East Highway Service Area on Qingdao-Yinchuan Expressway. [Photo/en.sdhsg.com]
Actively supporting China's "dual-carbon" strategy, Shandong Hi-Speed Group is creating a diversified new-energy portfolio. The group is enhancing photovoltaic technologies and transforming expressway corridors — including slopes, toll stations, ramps and service areas — into a large, integrated roadside solar belt.
It released China's first technical standard for expressway-slope photovoltaic systems and has developed the nation's first pilot PV project on expressway slopes, the first zero-carbon service area and the first zero-carbon smart expressway. With an installed roadside photovoltaic capacity of 689 megawatts, the group ranks first among its national peers.
The group has also made breakthroughs in the expansion of its new energy business. Construction has begun on the 381.25-MW Heze wind power project, and contracts for new centralized photovoltaic projects have been secured.
New-energy installed capacity has exceeded 5.46 GW, while operation and maintenance capacity has surpassed 4 gigawatts, making the group the largest provincial State-owned enterprise in Shandong in both new-energy generation and operation and maintenance.
The group is also accelerating carbon-asset development. The 6.252 million kWh of green electricity generated by the Shouguang West Power Station was successfully converted into international renewable energy certificates (I-RECs), marking the group's first breakthrough in global green-certificate trading.
