Zonergy is a Chinese energy conglomerate engaged in the development of solar and

biomass Biomass is plant-based material used as a fuel for heat or electricity production. It can be in the form of wood, wood residues, energy crops, agricultural residues, and waste from industry, farms, and households. Some people use the terms bio ...

energy and the cultivation of

palm oil Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms. The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty products, and as biofuel. Palm oil accounted for about 33% of global oils produced fr ...

Corporate structure and history

Zonergy Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "Zonergy"), a world-renowned integrated smart microgrid solution provider, is a national-level high-tech enterprise founded in 2007. Zonergy is committed to offering the top-ranking integrated smart microgrid solutions for customers at home and abroad, including technology research & development and production, sales and trade, engineering design and implementation, energy management and optimization for multi-energy complementary and coordination of wind, solar, hydro, storage and charging. Through years of development, the Company has accumulated strong technical strength and rich engineering experience. It has been home to first-class technical research and development, engineering implementation, and market development team, which can guarantee business development in an all-around manner.

Pakistani solar park

The company was contracted to expand electricity generation in Pakistan. As part of the US$46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Zonergy agreed to develop the largest solar farm in the world, a 900 MW facility at the Bahawalpur Solar Power Park in the

Cholistan Desert The Cholistan Desert ( ur, ; Punjabi: ), also locally known as Rohi (), is a desert in the southern part of Punjab, Pakistan that forms part of the Greater Thar Desert, which extends to Sindh province and the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is on ...

, slated to be completed in 2016. The framework agreement for financing the project by the

Export Import Bank of China The Export–Import Bank of China (Chexim - China Exim Bank) () is one of two institutional banks in China chartered to implement the state policies in industry, foreign trade, economy, and foreign aid to other developing countries, and prov ...

had been signed in the presence of China's

paramount leader Paramount leader () is an informal term for the most important political figure in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The paramount leader typically controls the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA), often hol ...

Xi Jinping Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, ...

and Pakistani Prime Minister

Nawaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi: ; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime minister of Pak ...

during a April, 2015 visit by Chinese leader Xi Jinping. However, subsequent articles indicate Zonergy failed to meet deadlines, with successful credit to construction of the first 100 MW attributed to Xinjiang SunOasis.

Palm oil

The company grows

on 30,000 hectares in

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Gui ...

. With large scale ambitions to produce palm oil over millions of hectares, the company has undertaken feasibility studies in Indonesia,

Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...

, and the

Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

to find suitable investment locations.

Proposed production in Congo

The company had long term business plans in 2008 to cultivate palm oil over 2 million hectares in the DRC. The proposed project received high level attention with the then president, flying in 2007 soon after the founding of the company to guide the potential investment. He appeared in May 2007 with then Congolese agriculture minister Nzanga Mobutu for a press conference in which future plans for a palm oil processing plant and millions of hectares of cultivation was announced. A feasibility project was done at the local site with crops grown on a 10 hectare plot to explore the possibility of large scale cultivation. However the plan for large scale operations was scrapped after the company concluded that logistics in Congo would be hopeless. River transportation experts sent by the company found the

Congo River The Congo River ( kg, Nzâdi Kôngo, french: Fleuve Congo, pt, Rio Congo), formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the second largest river in the world by discharg ...

to be a nightmare to navigate with sandbars frequently impeding transport craft and concluded that it would be too difficult to move construction equipment and machinery to the site to construct a refinery.

References

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