China Solar Power Highway

In late 2017 china opened its 1km solar highway in the shandong province s capital jinan south of beijing.

China solar power highway.

It spans 5 875 sq m and is capable of generating up to 1gwh every year enough to power 800 homes. Engineers hope that soon it will wirelessly power electric. France boasted the world s first solar panel road in late 2016 but that only covered half the area of the chinese version. The road to china s autonomous driving future is paved with solar panels mapping sensors and electric battery rechargers as the nation tests an intelligent highway that could speed the.

Why china s solar highway is special. China is billing the project as the world s first photovoltaic highway. China has successfully tested its first solar powered highway opening the one kilometer stretch of road to traffic ahead of plans to use it to recharge electric cars. China is building a 1 2 mile 2 km stretch of solar highway meaning solar panels on the road will be powering the towns surrounding it.

What is china s solar highway. China is building a 2 km stretch of solar highway that will be able to generate electricity from sunlight. While the netherlands built a solar bike path in 2014. In late 2016 a village in france opened what it claimed was the world s first solar panel.

The solar road developed by the qilu transportation development group was opened thursday in jinan the capital city of china s shandong province a year after the project. The two lane road covers 5 875 square meters and can generate up to 1 million kilowatt. The two kilometre long highway located in jinan could charge electric cars as they are travelling on it. The solar power highway is expected to produce 280 mwh of electricity a year enough to power the village s street lights.

Though china is the largest clean energy market in the world wind and solar only accounted for 5 2 percent and 2 5 percent of china s national power generation in 2018 says kevin tu former china program manager at the international energy agency and now a fellow with the center on global energy policy at columbia university.