en.Wedoany.com Reported - On June 26, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Meidai Pumped Storage Power Station project in Inner Mongolia was held in Tumd Right Banner, Baotou City. The launch of this project marks another major endeavor in green energy storage for the Inner Mongolia power grid, providing significant support for building a new power system, promoting low-carbon energy transition, and serving national energy security. Attendees at the ceremony included Zhang Xiaohu, Deputy Party Secretary and General Manager of Inner Mongolia Power (Group) Co., Ltd.; Lin Li, Standing Committee Member and Executive Vice Mayor of Baotou City; Pang Xu, Party Secretary and Chairman of Sinohydro Bureau 4 Co., Ltd.; and Han Rui, Vice General Manager of Inner Mongolia Power (Group) Co., Ltd.
In 2021, the Meidai Pumped Storage Power Station was included in the national Medium and Long-Term Development Plan for Pumped Storage (2021–2035) and received approval for project initiation in June 2025, making it one of the 102 major engineering projects under China's 14th Five-Year Plan. Located in Tumd Right Banner, Baotou City, the station is approximately 65 km and 100 km in straight-line distance from Baotou City and Hohhot City, respectively. With a total installed capacity of 1.2 million kW and a total investment of about 8.2 billion yuan, the construction period is 75 months. The first unit is expected to commence power generation in 2032, with an annual power output of approximately 1.526 billion kWh. It will absorb about 2.6 billion kWh of new energy annually, equivalent to saving approximately 880,000 tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 850,000 tons. The project offers significant green, low-carbon, ecological, and social benefits, serving as a landmark project for the autonomous region in building a national base for important energy and strategic resources, promoting high-quality energy development, and enhancing the safe and stable operation of the power grid.
Currently, Inner Mongolia Power (Group) Co., Ltd. is thoroughly implementing the important speeches and directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping regarding Inner Mongolia, continuously accelerating the construction of a new energy system. Pumped storage, as a mature, reliable, large-scale, clean, and low-carbon energy storage method, serves as an indispensable "stabilizer," "power bank," and "ballast stone" in the construction of a new power system. In addition to the Meidai Pumped Storage Power Station, Inner Mongolia Power (Group) Co., Ltd. is also advancing projects such as the Wuhai Pumped Storage, Taiyanggou Pumped Storage, and Halaqin Pumped Storage power stations. Once all projects are operational, they will form a cluster in coordination with the existing Hohhot Pumped Storage Power Station, leveraging new energy storage resources within the grid to comprehensively enhance the regulation capacity of the Inner Mongolia power system and the level of new energy consumption.
In the next steps, Inner Mongolia Power (Group) Co., Ltd. will fully implement national and regional energy development plans, adhering to the overall construction goal of "excellent cost, beautiful ecology, advanced management, and striving for national excellence." It will work closely with all shareholders and participating parties to strengthen project construction management, quality process control, and ecological environmental protection, striving to build a high-quality, benchmark, and clean project, contributing greater efforts to promote the green and low-carbon energy transition in the autonomous region and ensure national energy security.
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