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China is Building a Solar Power Highway That Can Charge Electric Cars

The solar power highway is expected to produce 280 MWh of electricity a year – enough to power the village’s street lights. China is building a 2 km stretch of solar highway that will be able to generate electricity from sunlight. The two-kilometre-long highway located in Jinan could charge electric cars as they are travelling […]

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China Starts World’s Biggest Floating Solar Project

The one billion yuan floating solar power project in Anhui province, developed by the Three Gorges Group, is to be constructed in May next year. China’s Three Gorges Group is building a 150-megawatt floating solar plant in the eastern part of country, the largest of its kind in the world, official Xinhua news agency reported. […]

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Modi Govt to Step Beyond Renewable Goal With China-Scale Tenders

With renewable energy targets second only to those set by the government of China, India has a long way to go from a current base of 60 gigawatts to reach its ambition of 175 gigawatts in five years. In a bid to fulfill Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s climate pledges, India announced that it will tender […]

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JinkoSolar Awarded With The First C2C Certificate By SGS In China

Not only is this milestone beneficial to Jinko Solar’s commitment towards environmental, health, and safety standards, but is also evidence of SGS’s strong certification abilities Jinko Solar, a global leader in the photovoltaic (PV) industry has been awarded the Cradle-to-Cradle (“C2C”) certificate for the first time by SGS in China, according to the company statement. […]

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China Aims To Install Record Amount Of Solar Power Capacity

China has left Germany behind having most installed photovoltaic power capacity in 2015. China, being the world’s largest carbon emitter, now aims to be the biggest installer of solar power capacity with record numbers pushing the researchers to add almost 80 percent more capacity to stipulated one. The amount of additional capacity of 30GW of […]

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China, Ukraine Agree to Deepen Cooperation in Clean Energy

Ukraine which relies heavily on imported energy and sees a huge potential in its renewable energy cooperation with China. China and Ukraine have agreed to increase their cooperation in renewable energy, the Ukrainian government said. Both the countries reached the agreement during the plenary meeting of the Chinese-Ukrainian Subcommittee on Trade and Economic Cooperation in […]

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Yingli Announces 100MW Top Runner Solar Power Project in China

The project will consist of Yingli Panda bifacial panels spread over a two kilometre square area Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the world’s leading solar panel manufacturers has announced a 100 MW solar power project in the Inner Mongolia region of China. The project named Top Runner is located in Wuhai City […]

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Developing World Says Rich Nations Shirking On Climate Change Pledge

The climate change pact rests on voluntary carbon-cutting pledges from virtually every country in the world. The failure of wealthy nations to deliver on short-term climate commitments could hinder the rollout of a landmark treaty, a bloc of 134 developing countries, including India and China, warned today at UN negotiations in Bonn. The diplomatic spat […]

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Half-cell technology to rise and shine in subsidy-less solar business climate

Both China’s launching tradable green certificates and Japan’s replacement of its Feed in Tariff (FiT) scheme with an auction mechanism shows that the cost of renewable power generation has become more and more competitive to that of fossil fuels. Solar will continue to survive with less dependency on subsidy in the near future. At the […]

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