The day of September 22, 2019 is a common day, just as the river flowing beside Nanjiang Village at the foot of the mountain for ages. Zhen Senlin, the 30-year-old shift foreman, gets up at 7:00 a.m., and organizes morning shift meeting at 8:00 a.m. to arrange one-day work contents, which is the start of one-day work thereof at CR Zhenfu Wind Farm.
In 2016, in order to actively respond to the State's call on building a beautiful China, CR Power, in accordance with green development philosophy, established this wind farm with the total investment of RMB420 million and the construction scale of 48 MW and including 24 2 MW wind power generation units and 1 110 KV step-up substation among the mountains of Hukeng Town, Yongding District, Longyan after 2 years.
As the first wind power project constructed and operated by CR Power in Fujian, Zhenfu Wind Farm started business operation in 2018. Zhen Senlin was transferred to Zhenfu Wind Farm in the great area of Southeast China in April 2018, which is over 1,600 km away from his native place of Xinxiang, Henan. He has been accompanied with mountains and fans all the time. Just as Zhen Senlin, a majority of employees of the wind farm are from all corners of the country, and gather at the foot of the mountain which is over 1,000 m above sea level.
Follow wind
The wind farm implements "three-shift and two-change" system. Three shifts "work for ten days and rest for five days", i.e. five-day main shift, five-day auxiliary shift and five-day rest. The temperature in the mountains gradually decreased in September. The morning dew with chill fell on the face. After the morning shift meeting, Zhen Senlin needed to work outside for a day, overhauling and looking over equipment units on mountains.
Starting from the work station of the wind farm, Zhen Senlin and his workmates arrived at the east area after driving vehicles along rough mountain roads for half an hour. They needed to look over, regularly overhaul and detect 8 units at the east area and 16 ones at the west area, totalling 24 ones. They examined and tested vanes, gear boxes, hydraulic oil and all other items to ensure the normal operation of fan devices.
Mountain forests were silent, and the wind beside ears was quiet. After the morning work, Zhen Senlin and his workmates sat at a shady and cool place on the slope. They took their food out of bags to satisfy hunger, and relieved the fatigue at noon. In their eyes are green mountains stretching far away, which was unbelievable for villagers of Nanjiang Village at the foot of mountains.
Since 2017, Zhenfu Wind Farm has been strictly implementing the ecological protection philosophy of "three meantimes" of CR Power, has successively invested RMB10 million, and has been cooperating with scientific research institutes about vegetation recovery. It has hung nets and sprayed and sowed grass of 0.14 million m2, directly sowed grass of 0.13 million m2, and planted about 14,000 trees and shrubs such as oriental cherry, sweet scented osmanthus and oil-tea camellia, so as to fully recover the mountain vegetation naked due to engineering construction. The worry of villagers of Nanjiang Village at the foot of mountains about environmental destruction disappeared at the time of completion of the engineering, which was the great recognition for Zhen Senlin, et al.
At 6:00 p.m., the one-day outside overhaul and inspection tour finished temporarily. Although the workload was not heavy, Zhen Senlin spent a majority of time on the way. The distance between the west area and the work station doubles that between the east area and the work station. In the period from the time of approval by the government in 2014 to the start of the project in 2016, Zhenfu Wind Farm built a mountain road on steep ridges, greatly facilitating the traffic of local villagers. The work station designed with round earth buildings has been integrated into local architectural culture, has been greatly supported by the government, and has successively won horary titles such as "Chinese Quality Power Engineering 2019".
Catch dreams
"As there are work tasks from time to time, I generally work overtime during a lot of rest time." As Zhen Senlin cannot go back often, the wind farm is his another home at another place. Zhen Senlin still remembered: on the evening of December 17, 2018, when he came back to work overtime at the station after one-day outside work, leaders and workmates of the wind farm gave him a birthday surprise. That day was his 30th birthday, but he fully forgot this important time due to busy work. As the saying goes, a man should be independent at the age of thirty. With the congratulations and warm from workmates from this little duty room, he completed the change of "getting married and having a career". He got married and had a cause for which he was willing to fight at the wind farm 1,600 km away from his home.
Different from tradition power farms which have a lot of employees, the Operation Maintenance Department of Zhenfu Wind Farm has only 12 employees. Living on the high mountains far away from cities, they usually feel lonely. This small work station witnesses the growth and youthful days of each employee. They are away from crowds, stay on mountains and devote to the wind energy cause.
There is less idle time on mountains. "We are busy usually. Once we're free, we will play basketball and billiards to relax." In consideration of employees' physical and mental health, Zhenfu Wind Farm also has fully equipped fitness fields and devices. Zhen Senlin often takes exercises with workmates. For them, the life away from cities is not boring.
When talking about future plan, Zhen Senlin said that he would continuously stay at the Zhenfu Wind Farm. "I have much affection on the wind farm. I have worked here for over one year, from April 2018 to September 2019." At the end of October 2019, there will be less employees left at the work station to work due to the construction of centralized operation maintenance platform and the deep implementation of ownership management. In future, Zhen Senlin and his workmates may have the opportunity to operate the wind power station remotely.
Wind is both listener and speaker of stories. Just as the meaning of the name of "rejuvenate Fujian", Zhenfu Wind Farm records 2,341.84 annual average power generation utilization hours, 2,275.06 equivalent full-load hours and annual online power of 109.2033 GWh, and each year, can replace 35,600 tons of standard coal, reduce ash yield of 13,200 tons and the emissions of SO2 of about 38.22 tons, NOx of 38.22 tons and CO2 of about 101,200 tons. Since the time of being put into production, the Zhenfu Wind Farm has generated the power of 162 million KWH and the revenue of over RMB90 million, showing a considerable development prospect. In addition to wind power generation, the construction of wind power generation units has also propelled local tourism industry, brought new development probability of local tourism economy, and achieved that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets".
Back to 2007, Zhen Senlin faced to choose a career. The green development philosophy of CR Power fully reflected the sense of social responsibility as a central enterprise, and inspired the sense of social responsibility of Zhen Senlin. "The entry into clean energy industry has been my dream. Therefore, I have selected to work at the wind farm." Although coal was still a main part of power energy, Zhen Senlin devoted to the wind power cause with warm blood and rationality.
Owing to requirements for site environmental wind, the site of wind farm is usually remote. "During the Chinese Spring Festival, we have to stay at the wind farm due to work. As long as I think that the clean energy generated by fan rotation can be transmitted to thousands of households through power grids, I would feel that my work is meaningful." The attitude of family members has changed from the misunderstand at the very beginning to current support. On this land, Zhen Senlin has realized his dream, and has been content with his original intention.
Go towards light
At night, it is cold on mountains. Stars in the sky come into sight in the dark, and specks of light create the romance of mountains. The stars are just like the young people on the mountains. They seem plain and insignificant, but the light guarded by each of them gathers and lightens lamps of a myriad families far away.
Zhen Senlin is one of twelfth of employees of the Zhenfu Wind Farm and one of 100 odd employees of 83 wind farms of CR Power, and is a miniature of all the staff of CR Power. A group of such people are distributed in Guangdong, Shandong, Hubei, Henan, Inner Mongolia, etc. Environmental hardship and loneliness cannot stop them. Their youth is submerged in wind and spreads on the each inch of land. They provide constant green energy for the society, and guard the brightness and warm of cities.
Link: http://wap.msweekly.com/show.html?id=113180