Strange doing a ‘solar energy’ farm in TT-Hue: Roofing in a series of … houses without a roof | Society

The management of the “solar energy” farm in TT-Hue is currently in a vague situation. Meanwhile, “solar energy” farm owners remain indifferent to building and installing iron frame houses to apply batteries, even applying solar panels to roofless houses, with large areas in the “hard” functional planning zones are the agricultural production.

Inside a building with an iron frame and without a roof. The roofs are solar panels.

According to the recent inspection of the Quang Dien District People’s Committee, in the sand farm area of ​​3 Quang Loi, Quang Thai, Quang Vinh communes, there are 4 agricultural projects associated with solar energy works, with the total area used for construction. Construction related to electricity generation is about 6.5 hectares. Therefore, each farm project has an average roof-mounted solar cell area of ​​more than 1 ha. However, there are farms that have used 2 to almost 3 hectares of agricultural land as land to install solar cells.

In Phong Dien district, there are also 3 “solar energy” farm areas that have just been formed on the soil of traditional agricultural land (gardens, ponds, barns) transferred by the former owner. The area of ​​attic power cells in sandy farms has not been statistically verified or detailed by the Phong Dien District People’s Committee.

There is no agricultural production in this house. Above is the roof with solar cells, below is the arid, discolored soil that is difficult to cultivate.

It is worth mentioning, the owner of the “solar energy” farm is from another place, someone who owns a construction business. They bought land from the former owner of the farm, then improved the land, did not organize cultivation and breeding from the beginning in the sense of an agricultural production farm, but instead deployed massive solar energy projects.

The formation of areas for cultivation, livestock and agricultural production according to the project presented to the competent authorities for approval is not yet clear. The “solar energy” farms are mostly labeled “green technology” by companies.

Farm or solar power plant?

According to local authorities, when declaring and submitting a new agricultural production organization plan (with solar energy projects), two components “pond, barn” are like the model that local people used to make in the past. improve soil fertility, increase soil fertility in the soil characteristics of the sterile indoor sand in Quang Dien, Phong Dien is not as important as before to new investors.

They built iron frame houses with batteries on the roof, “hung” in the decisive conditions but very vague went the cultivation of vegetables, the raising of worms, the release of chickens … Meanwhile, vegetables grown by any technology in the region. Dry gray sand, when planted, is sprayed with what source of water, where is the consumer market … not clearly indicated.

A worker inspects the panels that have been installed in a roofless iron frame.

According to a former owner of a sand farm in Quang Dien, each hectare of agricultural land here is now sold for around 400 million dong. The land after the transfer has been converted into a “solar energy” farm by the new owner, with a land use period of 20 years.

“I wonder how people grow vegetables in a place with only arid white sand, severe drought and risks due to natural disasters like this, how profitable, according to agricultural methods and technology. . While the ancillary works for growing vegetables are iron frame houses (the main target for the application of solar panels) worth billions of dong of investment. This is somewhat unusual. Will the proceeds from the sale of vegetables cover the cost of building an iron frame house, if this place does not have a battery mounted on the roof to sell electricity? ”Asked a resident of Quang Loi Commune, Quang Dien District.

Local farmers said that if you simply grow vegetables in a place that is not suitable for existing vegetables, spending billions of dong to build a “huge” infrastructure – that is, dense iron-frame houses – will create a risk. very high in investment. That is also unusual, because it has been very difficult to plant acacia and melaleuca forests for wood to cover the bare earth in the sandy fields for a long time.

The trees of the old farm were dug and plowed to obtain land for the generation of solar energy.

“No one has done that before. Nor is there a demonstration or pilot model as a basis for them to massively deploy vegetable and earthworm production here. I don’t think growing vegetables and raising earthworms here is the main purpose and it will bring big profits, it will offset the cost of such investment in infrastructure, if not to produce solar energy, ”said one farmer. skeptical.

A “solar energy” agricultural project in Phong Dien district. This work built a roof to apply batteries.

Referring to the farms with solar panels installed in the area, the representative of the Quang Dien District People’s Committee said that the investor declared and presented the plan to grow vegetables, and They produce the right project, follow what technology, how is the market. .. still have to wait and see.

In fact, in the “solar energy” farm in Quang Dien district, there is a place where the inverter applies thousands of solar panels to the metal frame, but underneath there is no roof. Solar cells replace the roof sheets.

A number of houses do not have roofs, above they are installed with solar panels instead of roofing.

Although, according to Official Letter 7088 (September 22, 2020) of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce on the guidelines for the implementation of photovoltaic solar energy on roofs, agricultural works require roofs, the roofs must be suitable for functions and types . farm… This is also a condition for the electricity company to sign an electricity consumption contract. Faced with the situation of building a house without a roof with solar panels, the TT-Hue electricity company said it would review to make the decision to sign a contract for the connection, purchase and sale of electricity. In the event of a breakdown, the connection and purchase will be rejected.

Earlier, as reported, after the central highlands, the move to build “solar power” farms showed signs of forming a “fever” and quickly spread in TT-Hue, potentially the dangers of using the land for purposes. agricultural production variables; causing desertification, environmental pollution, breaking the planning of the production of renewable energy connected from the earth.

This “fever” has not been inspected or corrected by the competent authorities.

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