Xi’s Renewables Flagship May Be a Patchwork of Smaller Projects
- More detail set out on push to add solar, wind in desert areas
- Qinghai and Gansu provinces are investing in more capacity
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The giant wind- and solar-power project in China outlined by President Xi Jinping looks likely to be a network of dozens of modest-sized installations.
China has begun construction on the first phase of a massive new clean energy development in the desert, Xi announced last Wednesday, without offering many specifics. The initial stage will add about 100 gigawatts of capacity -- about equal to all existing wind and solar projects in India.