People in golmud population 200 000 take great pride in the frontunner solar power installation.
China solar power highway.
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.
The solar power highway is expected to produce 280 mwh of electricity a year enough to power the village s street lights.
In late 2017 china opened its 1km solar highway in the shandong province s capital jinan south of beijing.
December 30th 2017 by steve hanley china has opened a 1 kilometer long solar road in jinan the capitol of shandong province south of beijing.
China is billing the project as the world s first photovoltaic highway.
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.
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.
Engineers hope that soon it will wirelessly power electric.
In late 2016 a village in france opened what it claimed was the world s first solar panel road running for about the same.
China is building a 2 km stretch of solar highway that will be able to generate electricity from sunlight.
The move has been hailed by the developers as another major breakthrough in the field of photovoltaic pavements.
According to state run cctv the jinan expressway has unique features and strength.
The two kilometre long highway located in jinan could charge electric cars as they are travelling on it.
Why china s solar highway is special.