It has been reported that the Development and Reform Commission of Hoboksar County, Tacheng Prefecture, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has recently issued a notice of decision to clear and withdraw a project.
The document indicates that the 75MW/300MWh energy storage supporting 300MW photovoltaic project, implemented by Xinjiang Hefeng Ganyuan Smart Energy Technology Co., Ltd., obtained project filing approval in November 2023 and received grid connection approval in October 2024. This project required a total of 18 preliminary procedures. As of June 5, 2026, only 14 had been completed. Upon verification, the construction site had been in a state of complete stagnation for an extended period up to June 5, 2026, with no effective fixed asset investment formed.
According to regulations from the Autonomous Region's Development and Reform Commission, projects with lagging progress are to be legally cleared and withdrawn. Under the requirements of the new energy development management mechanism, prefectures, autonomous prefectures, and cities must regularly clear or reduce the scale of approved but unbuilt projects. Projects must complete preliminary work, such as comprehensive planning and site selection arguments, before filing and must commence construction within two months after filing. Projects that fail to start on time will be ordered to rectify within a deadline; those still not started within the rectification period will be canceled, and their filing codes will be simultaneously deregistered on the platform.
Furthermore, for projects filed for over one year where the actual constructed scale is less than 30% of the approved scale, after verification of the under-construction scale by local authorities, companies will be guided to withdraw the unbuilt portion, and the project scale will be simultaneously adjusted on the platform.
After deliberation, the Hoboksar County Development and Reform Commission has legally made the following decision: effective from the delivery date of this notice, the cooperative relationship with Xinjiang Hefeng Ganyuan Smart Energy Technology Co., Ltd. regarding this project is terminated. The company's 75MW/300MWh energy storage supporting 300MW photovoltaic project is to be legally cleared and withdrawn.
The company is ordered to, within 15 working days from receiving this notice, dismantle all buildings and ancillary facilities on the project site, complete land ecological restoration work, and restore the land to its original condition. Xinjiang Hefeng Ganyuan Smart Energy Technology Co., Ltd. is requested to immediately coordinate and arrange relevant work upon receiving this notice, return any preferential subsidies enjoyed, pay any waived fees, and ensure the full completion of the aforementioned clearance obligations by June 30, 2026, to facilitate the smooth progress of subsequent work.
Since 2025, to promote the high-quality, standardized, and normalized development of new energy projects, continuously optimize the allocation layout of new energy resources, and fully unleash the potential of core element guarantees such as grid access and land supply, various regions have been orderly advancing special tasks including the sorting and integration of wind and solar project indicators, cleanup of existing stock, and invalidation of expired indicators.
Statistics show that from 2025 to the end of May 2026, a total of 189 wind and solar projects with a combined capacity of 13.1GW have been invalidated across six regions: Guizhou, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Fujian, and Ningxia.
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