China opens first high-speed motorway

The first one-kilometer-long solar highway in the People's Republic of China was successfully completed. The new road was opened in Jinan, capital of Shandong Province, one year after the launch of the project.

The route - which the successors and its future importance have been praised - consists of a dielectric layer at the bottom, mid-level photoelectric panels, a transparent concrete layer at the top and a clean-energy vehicle.

Test section of world's first photovoltaic expressway opens to traffic in E China's Shandong. It can generate 10 mln kWh of electricity per year and melt ice and snow in winter.

The area of ​​the panels is 8,774 square meters, generating a capacity of up to 800 kilowatts, according to the project's owners, and the use of energy produced in the lighting of highway lights and registration panels and surveillance cameras in addition to the lights of the tunnels in place.
Xu Chunfu, head of the implementing group, told Xinhua that the excess capacity will be delivered to the state grid, adding that the road will allow the electric power vehicles to be powered, and that snow will melt and not build up. the path.