China Solar Power Highway

China is building a 2 km stretch of solar highway that will be able to generate electricity from sunlight.

China solar power highway.

According to state run cctv the jinan expressway has unique features and strength. While the netherlands built a solar bike path in 2014. It spans 5 875 sq m and is capable of generating up to 1gwh every year enough to power 800 homes. Why china s solar highway is special.

In late 2017 china opened its 1km solar highway in the shandong province s capital jinan south of beijing. The solar power highway is expected to produce 280 mwh of electricity a year enough to power the village s street lights. 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 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 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. 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. 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.

The two kilometre long highway located in jinan could charge electric cars as they are travelling on it. China is billing the project as the world s first photovoltaic highway. What is china s solar highway. 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.

A stretch of solar in jinan.