The local government of Ulanqab City, a district within the northern Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, has tendered a gigawatt-scale wind, solar, and energy storage hybrid project. Despite its massive scale, of 2.8 GW wind power, 300 MW solar, and 880 MW 2-hour battery storage, the project is referred to not just as a ‘Integrated Source, Grid, Load and Storage’ project, but also as a ‘demonstration’ project. That says something about the scale of renewable development occurring in both China as a whole a couple weeks after a 2.2 GW solar complex was commissioned, and specifically the province of Inner Mongolia. Ulanqab City’s Development and Reform Commission wants to see the project enter construction by the end of this year;…