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China’s trailblazing ‘Silicon Valley’

From integrating solar and batteries to leading the charge on digitalization, businesses operating on the technological frontier can be found in Shenzhen, China. The southern city is becoming more pivotal to the PV industry, as pv magazine publisher Eckhart K. Gouras discovered on his most recent visit to China.

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Eckhart Gouras

09 Nov 2023

Photos: Eckhart K. Gouras, pv magazine

Earlier in 2023, pv magazine traveled to Shenzhen to meet with some key players and to find out how a city dubbed “China’s Silicon Valley” is responding to both the energy transition to renewables and the transportation shift toward electric vehicles (EVs).An hour’s drive away, Hong Kong used to tower above Shenzhen, in the physical …

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