{"id":217,"date":"2009-01-05T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2010-11-24T15:57:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T23:57:32","slug":"china-1gw-solar-farm-cropping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/solar-energy\/china-1gw-solar-farm-cropping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"China 1GW Solar Farm Cropping Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two companies in China have announced that they intend to build a 1 GW solar power plant in the northwest region. Initially the solar farm<\/a> will be built as a 30 megawatt station with an initial investment of $150 million.<\/p>\n

The Chinese solar panels will combine crystalline silicon-based and thin film technology. This will rival another 1 GW solar installation that was announced about a month ago. Amelio Solar stated this they will be building a 1 GW solar farm in Jordan using thin-film photovoltaic technology.<\/p>\n

In China, the Qinghai New Energy Group and China Technology Development Group Corporation will start building the giga-scale solar farm in the Qaidam Basin later this year. The basin was established as an Economic Experimental Zone for renewable energy by the Chinese government in 2005.<\/p>\n

Currently, every 7 to 10 days another coal-fired<\/a> power plant goes up in China. Over the past two years, coal consumption has jumped 14-percent per year. Quick and decisive action needs to be taken in China to reduce coal dependence and switch to renewables and the 1 GW solar power plant will be a jumpstart in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two companies in China have announced that they intend to build a 1 GW solar power plant in the northwest region. Initially the solar farm will be built as a 30 megawatt station with an initial investment of $150 million. The Chinese solar panels will combine crystalline silicon-based and thin film technology. This will rival […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-energy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t