From Reuters:
China, seeking to ease its dependence on coal to fuel its booming economy, said on Tuesday it will build the world’s largest solar power station in the poor but sunny northwestern province of Gansu.
The 100 megawatt (mw) project would cost approximately 6.03 billion yuan ($766 million) and construction would take five years, Xinhua news agency said.
China’s economy is racing along at more than 10 percent a year and miners are struggling to meet booming demand for coal, which fuels about 70 percent of the nation’s energy consumption. [Full Text]
