China Solar Cell Highway

This story by yin han was first published in the global times.

China solar cell highway.

Engineers hope that soon it will wirelessly power electric. Founded in 2006 china sunergy is a solar cell and panel products manufacturer based in nanjing jiangsu. 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. It spans 5 875 sq m and is capable of generating up to 1gwh every year enough to power 800 homes.

Their primary customer base is in china but they also sell their products worldwide. The company specializes in creating solar cells from silicon wafers and they both use monocrystalline and multi crystalline silicon solar cells for this. 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. In missouri where the company solar roadways was meant to test a small patch.

In china one six foot panel of a 0 6 mile solar highway was stolen prompting the government to abandon the project. But it was vandalized and had sensitive parts stolen from it five days after opening the beijing youth daily said.