Green growth in Gansu: Maximizing benefits through pasture-photovoltaic integration

Farm manager Bai Hu and his assistant feed cattle at the Huize Pasture-Photovoltaic Integration Breeding Zone in Banqiao town, Linze county, Zhangye, Gansu province, on March 20. [Photo provided to gogansu.com]

At the Huize Agrivoltaic Livestock Park in Banqiao town, Linze county, Zhangye, Gansu province, rows of standardized cattle sheds are neatly arranged. The distributed photovoltaic arrays installed on the rooftops and supporting structures of four standardized agrivoltaic cattle sheds, with a total installed capacity of 4.3 megawatts, shine brilliantly under the sunlight.

Electric current flows through 11 inverters into transformers before being continuously fed into the national power grid, generating over 6.8 million kilowatt-hours annually with an annual revenue exceeding 2.8 million yuan ($385,000). The standardized cattle sheds are clean and bright, where staff carefully tend to over 1,000 beef cattle approaching market readiness.