China Solar Cell Highway

Thieves shut china s solar highway after just five days the 1km long photovoltaic highway opened for testing on december 28 and the problem was spotted several days later.

China solar cell highway.

China s first solar expressway with a length of 1 kilometer was opened for testing in december 2017 in east china s jinan. 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. Founded in 2006 china sunergy is a solar cell and panel products manufacturer based in nanjing jiangsu. Engineers hope that soon it will wirelessly power electric.

In missouri where the company solar roadways was meant to test a small patch. In late 2017 china opened its 1km solar highway in the shandong province s capital jinan south of beijing. The company specializes in creating solar cells from silicon wafers and they both use monocrystalline and multi crystalline silicon solar cells for this. But it was vandalized and had sensitive parts stolen from it five days after opening the beijing youth daily said.

It spans 5 875 sq m and is capable of generating up to 1gwh every year enough to power 800 homes. This story by yin han was first published in the global times.