Recently, media reported that the State Grid Shidai Huadian Datong Thermal Power Energy Storage Project is expected to enter commercial operation next month.

It is reported that the State Grid Shidai Huadian Datong Thermal Power Energy Storage Project is located in the Huadian Datong Thermal Power Plant in Yungang District, Datong City, Shanxi Province. It is a new energy storage station built by utilizing retired thermal power plant sites and transmission facilities. This project is a modern energy system construction project in the "14th Five-Year Plan" of Shanxi Province and a provincial key project in Shanxi Province, and has been included in the first batch of "New Energy + Energy Storage" pilot demonstration projects in Shanxi Province. The energy storage project is planned to have a total investment of 1.2 billion yuan, with a construction scale of 300MW/600MWh, divided into two phases, each with a scale of 150MW/300MWh, all of which adopt an all-outdoor prefabricated cabin design.