Climate Changed
China's Clean Energy Ambition Floats on Abandoned Coal Mine
- World’s biggest floating solar farm completed in Anhui
- China aims to spend $360 billion on clean energy by 2020
The Coming Storm of Climate Change
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China’s ambitions to dominate new energy technologies are unfolding at the site of an abandoned coal mine about 300 miles (483 kilometers) northwest of Shanghai.
There, in Anhui province, Sungrow Power Supply Co. has built the world’s largest floating solar farm with 166,000 panels on a lake created when a nearby mine collapsed. While not an entirely unique idea -- similar facilities are working in Japan, the U.K. and Israel -- the project’s scale represents a step forward for China in shaping the future of energy.