China ’s National Energy Administration ( NEA ) has announced that it will activate its first set of 20 solar thermal power plants by 2018 . The project will have a capacity of 1.35GW in total and will be located in the five sunniest areas in China : Hebei , Sichuan , Gansu , Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang . Power plants operators such as China General Nuclear Power Group, China Huaneng Group The solar thermal plants will use sunlight to turn water into steam , which will power turbines that produce electricity . The plants will be built by groups including China General Nuclear Power , Zhejiang Supcon Solar Technology , China Guodian , and China Huaneng .
China ’s National Energy Administration ( NEA ) has announced that it will activate its first set of 20 solar thermal power plants by 2018 . The project will have a capacity of 1.35GW in total and will be located in the five sunniest areas in China : Hebei , Sichuan , Gansu , Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang . The solar thermal plants will use sunlight to turn water into steam , which will power turbines that produce electricity . The plants will be built by groups including China General Nuclear Power , Zhejiang Supcon Solar Technology , China Guodian , and China Huaneng .