The first phase of the world's largest and most automated gigawatt-hour sodium-salt battery project is about to be completed and put into operation.

The project is backed by Shanghai Aoneng Ruila Energy Technology Co, which has made a 2.2-billion-yuan investment into the project.

It is located in Dalad Banner in the city of Ordos, in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and covers an area of 380 mu (25.33 hectares).

The project has three phases of construction. At present, the equipment for the first phase of the project is being finalized and will be commissioned immediately.

Once the third phase of the project is fully completed and put into production, the annual output value is expected to exceed 11 billion yuan, and the profits and tax payment will exceed 1.5 billion yuan.

It is understood that sodium-salt batteries are environmentally friendly and are green energy storage alternatives to traditional batteries. The processes throughout the industry chain are pollution-free, and the batteries themselves have the advantages of high safety, low cost, large capacity, and long life.

Applied in the field of new energy, sodium-salt batteries can solve existing problems in the new energy system, which hinder the large-scale application of new energy. These include unstable power generation, the high cost of peak regulation, and the difficulty of load side consumption.

According to Zhang Gaoxiao, the technical director of Shanghai Aoneng Ruila Energy Technology Co, the independently developed production technology applied to Dalad Banner's project has reached world leading level and broken the long-term technical monopoly of two foreign companies.

Dalad Banner was chosen as the project site due to its low labor and electricity costs, as well as rich wind and solar resources, Zhang added.