China Solar Panel Road

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.

China solar panel road.

Recently the city of jinan built china s very first solar road which lasted about a week until someone stole it. In late 2016 a village in france opened what it claimed was the world s first solar panel. The solar highway which comprises photovoltaic panels covered with a thin layer of concrete supposedly to protect them forms part of jinan s ring road system. His design teams argues if two lanes of every expressway in china was to be fitted with the solar panels surface as seen in jinan together they would generate 7 million gwh of power every year.

The sun s rays can hit some roads for up to 90 percent of the daylight hours so companies in europe and the u s. Engineers hope that soon it will wirelessly power electric. Are experimenting with building solar panel. China is billing the project as the world s first photovoltaic highway.

The road opened on december 28 and on january 2 an inspection team noticed a. A 1km 0 6 mile route in the small village of tourouvre au perche covered with 2 800 sq m of. China has opened a 1 kilometer long solar road in jinan the capitol of shandong province south of beijing. France has opened what it claims to be the world s first solar panel road in a normandy village.

This is equivalent to almost 1 3 times the amount of china s total residential energy consumption 2015 and would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 7 2.