Solar at a Crossroads

Solar is been making the news in China for a mixed bag of reasons.

[Pictured right:  a solar installation on a German football stadium using panels by Yingli Green Energy, a Chinese solar company based in Baoding in Henan province]

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced their Action Plan for Solar to ramp up research, development and deployment of solar photovoltaics (PV) in China.  People’s Daily vaguely describes the Plan’s has three scheduled milestones:

• distributed utilization of solar energy by 2015,
• substitution utilization by 2025 and extensive utilization by 2035, and
• aiming to make solar energy one of China’s important energy sources around 2050.

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