June 17 is the first "National Low Carbon Day." Science and Technology Daily reporter walked into the located in Shandong Province, Jinan, Lixia District, Swallow Hill Community. This community attracts reporter's attention is that they achieve community in Jinan City, the first photovoltaic power generation, reaching self-occupied. The community to take practical action "practice low-carbon energy, build a beautiful homeland."

"Absorb sunlight during the day and electricity at night to power the office lighting. Accordance with the current accounting standard industrial electricity, communities can save costs 220,000 yuan per year, reducing the use of 80 tons of standard coal." Swallow Hill neighborhood community staff pointed to a Pai photovoltaic panels told reporters.

Reporters learned that on June 14 that day, also held here, Swallow Hill Community dc to ac converter photovoltaic demonstration project lighting ceremony. The light switch turned on with community residents, community centers parks and public roads, as well as 51 community neighborhood office building trails and nearly 2,000 patio lights are lit, marking the Jinan City, the first self-occupied PV community formally electricity.

According to reports, the future, the community office and public lighting are the access to clean energy, approximately 520 photovoltaic http://www.gridtiepowerinverteronline.com/ panels cumulative capacity of 32.3 kilowatts, the annual electricity savings of 200,000 kwh community, can basically meet the community public lighting and office electricity. Community workers said, according to PV plant life of 25 years, the community can save a total of 550 million yuan