China Solar Power Highway

The move has been hailed by the developers as another major breakthrough in the field of photovoltaic pavements.

China solar power 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. The two lane road covers 5 875 square meters and can. 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.

In late 2017 china opened its 1km solar highway in the shandong province s capital jinan south of beijing. Why china s solar highway is special. It spans 5 875 sq m and is capable of generating up to 1gwh every year enough to power 800 homes. In late 2016 a village in france opened what it claimed was the world s first solar panel road running for about the same.

Engineers hope that soon it will wirelessly power electric. The two kilometre long highway located in jinan could charge electric cars as they are travelling on it. Golmud s workers have a history of building grand projects including the qinghai tibet highway which was constructed in the 1950s and is memorialized at a park in golmud. China is billing the project as the world s first photovoltaic highway.

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 was initially launched. People in golmud population 200 000 take great pride in the frontunner solar power installation. France boasted the world s first solar panel road in late 2016 but that only covered half the area of the chinese version.