BEIJING, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- When a local satellite solar panel producer was busy producing satellite "wings" recently, State Grid Chongqing Electric Power Co., Ltd. helped it better explore the market with its energy efficient services.
On Thursday, staff members of State Grid Chongqing Electric Power, a regional grid operator in southwest China's Chongqing, checked as usual the electricity safety of Chongqing Pioneer Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. in the latter's power room.
Photo provided by Chongqing Pioneer Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. shows that the company's engineers are operating the vibration table to test satellite solar cell arrays.
As one of the few private businesses that produce core satellite parts, Chongqing Pioneer Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. owns the first fully automated production line for satellite energy system components in China.
After monitoring the company's power consumption and load data, State Grid Chongqing Electric Power offered a tailored solution for the company to save power costs.
Under the solution, the company is guided to crank up production during the valley periods of electricity consumption, put aside old equipment with high energy consumption and use energy efficient lighting, transducers and etc., all of which help it reduce average monthly power expenses by 2,000 yuan.
With regular inspections over its power facilities, State Grid Chongqing Electric Power wiped out in aggregate five potential electricity safety hazards for the company, whose orders have exceeded 100 million yuan by late November this year.
Seeing through the glass of a corridor in its workshops located in Qiaohe industrial park of Qijiang District in Chongqing, rows of white workstations and automated robot arms are now lined up orderly.
Currently, the company's fully automated production line can generate in about two weeks the output that used to take about two months to finish in the past and after going through harsh space environment testing, these solar cell arrays will be equipped on low earth orbit (LEO) satellites as eligible "wings".
(Edited by Duan Jing with Xinhua Silk Road, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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