We’ve got a new largest solar power plant in the world. It was recently powered on in — well, guess where. I’ll just insert a picture of the solar farm here while you think about it. That’s right — it’s in China. It’s a 3.5-gigawatt solar farm. About 10 years … [continued]
In the fall and winter of 2021, Tesla and Elon Musk were vilified over Elon’s wealth. This year, after Elon has paid his taxes, the new topic is Tesla’s newly opened showroom in Xinjiang. Sadly, Xinjiang is well known for its treatment of over one million Uyghur Muslims who have … [continued]
A new ultra-high voltage transmission line launched this week in China is expected to dramatically cut demand for thermal coal, according to market sources quoted by S&P Global Platts.
China installed an impressive 7.21 gigawatts of new solar capacity in the first quarter of 2017, and generated 21.4 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, up 80% over the same period a year earlier.
In the wake of the annual meeting of two of China’s highest political bodies, one of the country’s leading politicians and business figures has called for the conversion of its vast interior into a hub for the development of renewable energy Liu Hanyuan, chairman of Tongwei Co., Ltd. and a … [continued]
Figures from the China Electricity Council show non-fossil fuel sources of energy accounted for over a quarter of the country’s power generation in 2014.
The electricity generated by China’s wind energy capacity fell by 5.2% in 2014, according to the country’s National Energy Administration. The news, reported by Wind Power Monthly, states that the average uptime for projects of 6 MW and over across the country was 1,905 hours. The decline in generation came … [continued]
By Anders Hove. It started with a mystery: what happened to the huge amount of distributed solar China was supposed to deploy in 2014? We were a well-selected bunch of curious cleantech investigators: Alan Beebe and three of his colleagues from EY’s cleantech practice, a solar finance expert from a … [continued]
Zonergy has chosen solar modules by Trina Energy to install in its projects around China.
One of China’s leading solar power product manufacturers, JinkoSolar, has won a contract to supply 30 megawatts of photovoltaic (PV) modules for a PV power plant project planned for Hami city in the Xinjiang Province of China. The contract was awarded by China Guangdong Nuclear Solar Energy Development, a wholly-owned … [continued]
