"General Manager Feng, I have good news. Guess what it is?"
For Zong Qingxian to call Feng Yu so early in the morning and sound so excited, it must be a piece of good news.
Feng Yu thought about all the companies and guessed. "Could it be that Tai Hua Crystalline Silicon has good news?"
"General Manager Feng, you also guessed it?"
Zong Qingxian wanted to keep Feng Yu in suspense, but Feng Yu guessed it immediately.
Feng Yu said that in Feng Yu's previous life, the Photovoltaic industry had become popular during this period, and the Crystalline Silicon industry also became popular.
Although in this life, Hua Xia's Crystalline Silicon industry had become popular earlier, the profits from selling Crystalline Silicon were not high. That's why Hua Xia's Crystalline Silicon industry had become popular earlier.
Although Crystalline Silicon prices had increased, they still had not recovered their initial investment of a few billion USD.
Also, the production lines they had planned were overcapacity. Zong Qingxian and the rest had doubts about this. If Feng Yu did not promise them that they will make money, they would not have allowed them to expand their production lines.
It was Hua Xia's environmental problems that triggered this policy last year. This policy was to develop renewable energy and reduce the use of coal, petroleum, and other non-renewable energy sources.
Now, coal prices had increased to more than 400 RMB per ton. Three years ago, it was only 200 RMB. This was because the country wanted to increase its power generation and steel production. This caused the price of coal to increase.
It was the same for petroleum. Petroleum prices had increased a lot compared to last year. Although it was not at the peak, it had increased by more than 50% compared to the previous two years.
The rising prices of these energy sources had prompted China to develop renewable energy sources, including solar, water, wind, etc., and the most basic is to generate electricity.
That's why, during this period, the country had planned to build a few of the world's largest hydropower stations, similar to the Three Heroes.
In some coastal areas, the country was also researching tidal power generation. In the highlands, it was mainly wind and solar power generation. Some special areas were researching geothermal power generation.
Among them, solar power was the most popular because it could not only be used for civilian use, but also in the aerospace field.
For example, the satellites and space stations in space all use solar panels. Anyway, in space, they could bask in the sun and not be affected by the weather.
Therefore, solar power generation is the most important part of this project. Not only did it have the least impact on the environment, but it also had the cleanest energy source and was inexhaustible.
Both wind power and hydropower would cause certain damage to the local environment. For example, if the wind power was to be generated in a high place, some trees would need to be cut down. The problem of water and electricity was even more serious. That was a huge project. Many villages and towns had to be relocated because of it. The debate about the destruction of the soil, water, and vegetation was still unresolved.
Solar energy was different. It had been used since many years ago. Even before the development of solar energy, many people had used solar water heaters.
Therefore, many countries in the world, especially countries that consumed a lot of energy, had launched a lot of research on this.
The US, Germany, Japan, Spain, Italy, France, United Arab Emirates, India, and Hua Xia had invested the most and achieved the most results.
Russia, a big country, was not included in the list. That was because of their climate. They were not suitable for solar power, and nuclear power and thermal power were more suitable for them.
Since last year, solar power generation was split into two directions. One was thin-film solar power, and the other was crystalline silicon photovoltaic power.
Crystalline silicon photovoltaic power generation was the new direction of crystalline silicon.
Tai Hua Crystalline Silicon was the world's largest supplier of silicon ores. Not only they had signed supply agreements with Hua Xia's silicon ores, but Polar Bear Minerals Group had also acquired some silicon ores.
Although Tai Hua Crystalline Silicon cannot set the price of its own silicon ores or crystalline silicon, it must get Tai Hua Crystalline Silicon's approval if other companies want to raise or lower their prices.
If Tai Hua Crystalline Silicon wants to change its prices, it only needs to contact a few companies to do so. But this will be sued for monopolizing the market. It was all thanks to the government's help that Tai Hua Crystalline Silicon increased its prices.
Anyway, if Tai Hua Crystalline Silicon made a profit, it will be Hua Xia who made a profit. This was not only because of the taxes, but also because it could be used as a country's diplomatic weapon. Under normal circumstances, which country does not want to protect their own people's industries? Who cares if it was a state-owned enterprise or a private enterprise? As long as it was Hua Xia's industry, it must not be taken advantage of by outsiders!
Hua Xia was one of the countries that focused on solar power earlier. Although their technologies were not the best in the world, they were considered advanced.
Feng Yu had given Tai Hua Crystalline Silicon and Tai Hua Batteries a task to research solar power and batteries. Most importantly, they must have a high conversion rate.
Currently, the conversion rate of crystalline silicon solar power was between 15% to 30%, and most of them were between 15% to 20%. The conversion rate was very low.
The best conversion rate for thin-film solar power was only 15%, and the efficiency was even lower.
The current world record for solar power conversion rate was set by Germany's Fraunhofer Solar Energy Research Institute, and it was only 33%.
This was only in theory. In practice, the conversion rate was even lower.
These few years, Tai Hua Crystalline Silicon, Tai Hua Batteries, and the National Research Laboratory had worked together to develop a new technology, and the conversion rate was over 30%.
Although it was still far from the world's best, it had met Feng Yu's expectations. With this conversion rate, they could introduce this solar power plant on a large scale. What made Feng Yu satisfied was the construction cost of this solar power plant was lower than Germany's technology, and it was suitable to be introduced in China.
"Zong, I want to visit the laboratory tomorrow." Feng Yu said excitedly.
"General Manager Feng, it is Lunar New Year the day after tomorrow. You can visit after Lunar New Year." Zong Qingxian replied. Is there a need to be so anxious?
"I can't wait. Oh, get the laboratory to announce this data immediately. We must let the world know that we are now one of the top countries in the world in solar power generation!"
Sometimes, breakthroughs must be kept a secret, but sometimes, it must be announced to the public. This was the only way they could license their technology and sell their power stations and solar cells for money.
They had invested so much in this research and development, and they must recover some of it.
The next step was to continue to make breakthroughs in their technologies and become the world's best!
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