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 .
China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has announced that it will activate its first set of 20 solar thermal power projects 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, Qinghai, 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 operated by groups including China General Nuclear Power, Zhejiang Supcon Solar Technology, China Guodian, and China Huaneng.