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From: RealMuLan	12/10/2017 11:37:36 AM
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China set to win race for first solar expressway 1 December 2017 \| By GCR Staff globalconstructionreview.com For nearly two years attention has been on France’s plans eventually to pave a thousand kilometres of motorway with photovoltaic panels, but with little fanfare China will open its first solar expressway this month. The world’s first expressway to generate power from the sun is now taking shape in the city of Jinan, in eastern China’s Shandong Province, and is set to open to the public in December, state media report. Tough enough to carry “middle size vans”, the panels will pave Jinan’s city ring expressway, say reports. As well as generating electricity, the road will be able to power electric vehicles and melt ice, and will “provide technical support to unmanned vehicles in the future”, reports suggest. China pursues infrastructure innovation rapidly, as demonstrated by its astonishing urbanisation and nationwide rollout of high-speed rail. It may pursue solar paving with similar intensity, as the Jinan expressway follows a 160-metre-long test road in the city completed only in September (pictured). Another photovoltaic road began testing in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in November 2017, say the reports. France opened its first test-stretch of solar roadway in December 2016. Other initiatives are ongoing elsewhere, such as in the US and the Netherlands.

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