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Preface
In Qinghai Province, the perennial winds and sand are rampant, the climate is dry, the precipitation is low, and the desert is predominant, making it difficult for plants to survive, making it difficult for local herders to make a living.
However, when the construction of photovoltaic power plants was implemented, a dramatic scene happened!
The barren Gobi Desert is covered with green vegetation, and the photovoltaic power station is more like a natural pasture at this time! It is "occupied" by sheep! What is the reason for this scene?
Located in Gonghe County, Qinghai Province, with a total area of 2,136 square kilometers and an altitude of nearly 3,000 meters above sea level, Tara Beach naturally has strong ultraviolet rays and longer sunshine hours than other regions, a full 8 hours.
The difficulty of plants to survive and the low annual rainfall have led to the fact that Tara Beach is known as the "third largest desert in the world".
However, this environment has suffered from the local herders, and the sparse amount of vegetation in Tara Beach is simply not enough to meet the needs of the sheep herd, and at the same time, there is also an overgrazing situation in the local area, which makes the desertification of Tara Beach even more serious.
Such a harsh environment has become a treasure in the eyes of some experts, and it is perfect for building photovoltaic power plants, not only with long sunshine hours, but also with more open space, and there is no need to spend extra money on demolishing buildings.
In 10 years, the National Energy Administration officially approved this decision!
However, when the decision was passed, many people questioned that the environment was too bad, after all, the construction of photovoltaic power stations is not a child's play, once officially implemented, not only to invest a lot of manpower and material resources, but also a lot of money.
If it fails, everything will be empty!
However, all the doubts were broken when the experts gave detailed countermeasures!
As we all know, you can't get things done with just a few words, let alone block the mouths of the people, but the experts really did a good job, and they were even loved by the locals!
The construction of photovoltaic power stations is not as simple as said, when it is not built, the first thing the workers have to deal with is the "wind blowing stones" in the Tara Beach, the endless loess, once the wind is inevitable, the wind and sand are raging.
At that time, the workers could not carry out their work at all, because they had long been blinded by the wind and sand, and even if the workers insisted on completing the work, it would be useless.
Because the photovoltaic power station is particularly fragile, the arrival of wind and sand will greatly reduce the life of photovoltaic panels, so the investment will be greatly increased.
In order to reduce the occurrence of this situation, experts have proposed planting plants, once successfully planted, the vegetation can effectively curb wind and sand, so as to extend the life of photovoltaic panels.
However, the planting of plants at this time is different from the traditional sense, it is not a direct purchase of plants that have already survived, but only seeds, because no one is completely sure that after sowing seeds, they will be able to plant successfully.
Seeing this scene, experts began to buy a large number of drought-tolerant plants, only to see the workers wave their hands to sow seeds at will, the main focus is a casual fate, don't look at the sowing so randomly, but the survival rate of plants has also been improved.
Workers not only sow seeds outside the photovoltaic park, but also sow a large number of seeds in the park, double protection, so that there is no chance for wind and sand!
When the planting was over, the workers continued to be busy building the photovoltaic power plant, but on the day of the harvest, there was an accident!
Tender grass grows on the barren land around the photovoltaic power plant! It is completely unexpected, you must know that Tara Beach is an arid area, with very little precipitation and very low plant survival rate.
Could this be a miracle? Or is there another reason?
However, there are no miracles in the world, and instead of thanking for unwarranted things, it is better to thank the policies of the state, and when the workers plant the seeds, they also have concerns in their hearts.
It is useless to know that it is useless to sow seeds by light, what is necessary for plants is water, sunlight, oxygen. Water is essential for plants, and in the Tara Beach desert, water is even scarcer.
So where does the water come from? It's not a well, it's not a local home, and if that's the case, that's how inspiring. The water needed for the seeds is obtained through the local construction of hydro-solar power generation clusters.
However, the workers did not intentionally water the seeds, but when they wiped the photovoltaic panels with water, the water flowed to the surface and nourished them.
As a result, the grass grows and the wind and sand conditions improve, but new troubles follow!
What people never expected was that when the grass absorbed water, it grew wildly towards the sun, as if there was a tendency to cover the photovoltaic panels!
Seeing this scene, the experts began to brainstorm the idea of using herbicides, manual weeding, and even trying to raise the photovoltaic panels, but to no avail.
At that time, Zhu Mingcheng, the general manager of the Yellow River Hydropower Company, had an idea and thought of the herdsmen's sheep!
As we all know, sheep will eat grass roots when they eat grass, which directly solves the root of the problem!
This move can be said to kill two birds with one stone, the problem of grass in the photovoltaic park has been solved, and the problem of food and clothing for sheep has also been solved, and the biggest "beneficiary" of this is the herdsmen!
The photovoltaic park is more like a natural pasture! Sufficient forage makes the sheep eat very much every day, and at the same time, there is no need to worry about the sheep eating the photovoltaic panels, because the sheep only have delicious grass in their eyes.
This has also led to an increase in the survival rate of the sheep, a qualitative leap in the income of herders, and even opportunities to earn extra money, such as cleaning photovoltaic modules and mowing grass in the park.
In 22 years, the vegetation coverage rate of Tara Beach has been restored to 80%, and the average annual power generation has reached 80 million kWh.
And this matter is not so much an unintentional planting of willows and willows, but rather the foresight of the experts, and at the same time, thanks to the national policy, Tara Beach has come back to life!
epilogue
The change in Tara Beach is evident not only because of the unique circumstances, but also because of the help of workers, herders, experts and the state, and it is important to understand one thing: when people are united in the face of difficulties, all problems will not be a problem.
Information sources:
"Planting the Sun on Tara Beach" - Qinghai Daily, published on September 8, 2023;
"Qinghai Tara Beach: From a barren beach to the world's largest photovoltaic power generation park" - China News Network, released on November 22, 2023;
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