World’s First Molten Salt Thermal Storage-Supercritical CO2 Cycle Power Demonstration Project Breaks Ground in China’s Shandong

China Huaneng Group announced on September 16, 2026 that it had broken ground on a demonstration project at the site of the Bajiao Power Plant, operated by Huaneng Shandong Power Generation Co., Ltd. in Yantai, Shandong Province, combining the world’s largest 50MW-class supercritical CO2 (Supercritical Carbon Dioxide) generator with a 100MW/400MWh molten salt thermal storage […]