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On The Road To Meeting Targets: 4 Million Solar Panels
China continues to be a huge player in the world of energy. The Longyangxia Dam is one example of the government’s serious investment in renewable energy, now topping 103 billion. As the largest solar park in the world, it covers over 10 square miles of land on the Tibetan Plateau. “According to Greenpeace’s Energydesk, preliminary 2016 data show China installed the equivalent of one and a half soccer fields of solar panels every hour. That puts the country on track to meet its 2020 renewable goals sometime in 2018.”
But the road will not be easy. Numerous setbacks are being encountered along the way, from decreased energy demands to remaining reliance on coal, as well as local coal interests in different provinces. Finding the right mix of renewables has also been a challenge, one that will continue into the future for all countries looking to decrease dependency on fossil fuels.
China is putting its money where its mouth is, so to speak, even if the results are not guaranteed to be as hoped. And the photos from the Longyangxia Solar Park are here to prove it.
