A newly completed energy storage power station has begun operation in Foshan, Guangdong province, adding fresh impetus to developing China's strategic emerging industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The Baotang energy storage station, operated by the China Southern Power Grid, is the largest of its kind in the GBA.

The station will directly help increase the total capacity of new energy storage by approximately 20 percent in Guangdong, an economic powerhouse in South China, the company said.

Covering an area equivalent to five and a half soccer fields, the power station has achieved the one-stop integration of multiple lithium battery energy storage technology routes for the first time in China.

The station, also the largest of its kind in the GBA, has an installed capacity of 300 megawatts, accounting for one-fifth of the total installed capacity of new power storage in the GBA, according to the company.

Like a large-scale urban power bank, the station utilizes clean energy sources such as wind and solar power to charge up during periods of low electricity demand. It reliably and steadily delivers stored green energy to households and businesses during peak electricity demand.

Based on the calculation of charges and delivery of power per day, the station is capable of supplying 430 million kilowatt-hours of clean energy electricity to the GBA annually, meeting the power needs of 200,000 residential users and helping reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 300,000 tons, according to CSG Power Generation (Guangdong) Energy Storage Technology Co Ltd.