CHINA’S NEWEST BIG SOLAR MOVE

China's Solar Power Push

Iain Wilson, November 6, 2014 (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)

“…China has decided that one of the best ways to clean up its polluted air is through solar power. The country has led the world in solar installations for the last two years and will likely do so again in 2015. It’s on pace to reach 33 gigawatts of solar power capacity by the end of 2014, 42 times more than it had in 2010 and more than exists in Spain, Italy, and the U.K. combined…The U.S. will have 20 gigawatts by the end of this year…Most of China’s solar power comes from sprawling utility-scale solar farms in the country’s rural west…[but it is opening up rooftops of] office buildings and factories…[that don’t require costly new] transmission lines…China will add as much as 15 gigawatts of solar capacity [in 2015 and over half]will come from cheap panels installed on commercial buildings…” click here for more

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