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Grid mobilization

China: Large-scale solar and wind farms in China have been plagued by a lack of sufficient grid infrastructure to tap these renewable energy sources. Various conferences during the Solarcon China 2013 week in Shanghai provided detailed information on the interplay between Chinas electricity grid and PV power plants.

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Eckhart Gouras

03 May 2013

Steven Han, solar industry analyst at Solarbuzz in Shanghai, didn’t mince words to describe the challenge China faces in integrating its PV power generation facilities into the national electricity grid. Han gave the keynote address at econet china’s PV Industry Salon 2013 in the German Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai on March 21, 2013, one …

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