Two Chinese societees considers constructing a solar farm of 30 megawatts based on the solar energy with a long-term objective of 1 gigawatt of capacity, that could make of her biggest photovoltaic project in the world, said an analyst, indeed.

The project does not have specific delay of completion but is ready to begin in 2009 with 150 million dollars of initial investment.

The station will be constructed close to in the northwest of China and is sustained by financial incitement of the Chinese government as well as the provincial governments.

Dye it gets her therefore ready also, to the picture of the other nations, to the after oil and to the use of clean and renewable energies.

This decrease of the price of fuels goes in the setting of the reform of the system of taxation of fuels in China.

Until then, the Chinese drivers paid for their gas more expensive than those of a lot of other countries, because the prices of fuels in China had remained unaltered since June, in spite of the fall of the prices of the crude oil in the world.

The reform of the system of taxation of fuels aims exactly to the Chinese adjust prices according to the world price of oil.

This power station has been constructed in Wuwei, in the desert of the Tengger in the province of Gansu (Oord-west).

Of a capacity of 1 megawatt installed, the power station has been developed by Dyed it Datang Corporation, the second society more important producer of energy in China.

The part taken in service Friday will produce 870 000 kwh.

The whole power station should be operational at the end of next year, Jiang indicated Pingsuo, the engineer in chief of the subsidiary of Datang in the Gansu.

The city of Wuwei has 46.6% of soil under his jurisdiction that is desert. This sorry place benefits from 2 210 hours of sun per year able to be used to produce electricity. It means that a power station of 1 megawatt can produce 1.4 million of kwh, underline the engineer in chief.

According to him, setting in the exploitation of this solar power station is a technological breakthrough of China in the exploitation of the solar energy in the desert regions.

In 2006, after years of biting lobbysme – interior and foreign -, Peking chose like standard for its future nuclear plants of third generation, the standard of the AP1000 type. In return for a complete transfer of technology (condition that the Areva competition had declined to accept), Westinghouse (and Toshiba, new owner of the group) returned to a nuclear market of which he was excluded since close to thirty years. By contract of July 2007 therefore, Peking bestowed him four reactors to construct between Sanmen (Zhejiang) and Haiyang (Shandong). But it took as care to grant a number equivalent to Areva of it, of its own EPR path (European Pressurized Reactor), to build in Taishan (Guangdong). Peking also pursued with Areva the survey of feasibility for the future factory of reprocessing of the fuels. The idea being to choose then between the two, on the basis of a comparison of the performances. However, here it is that the Caijing newspaper announces the green light " next" to another set of reactors, on the sites of Daban (Hubei), Taohuajiang (Hunan) and Pengze (Jiangxi), while evoking the preference of Wang Binghua, president of the corporation nuclear national SNPTC for the American technology " more sure, more economic, more adapted to the conditions of the inside of the country". does It mean him that the choice would have been made without waiting? At least, it evokes a wind in stern, that Westinghouse explains by a less elevated well-known cost (bound to a least power, 1000 Mega Watt against 1600 to the EPR), a fast construction (three years) and a system of security says "passive safety", without human intervention. While waiting, a technological duel delivers itself between the teams of the two paths, to start against the clock with a race on the yards.

Stake:  to work in China to a level that it doesn’t yet master.

Because it intends to build 31 power stations of second also generation from 2020. But on these yards, the foreign contribution will be thin.

A public group of the center of China takes a dominant place in a gap of future, thanks to a German SME. In Houbu (Shanxi), Lu’an is a middleweight of coal, that he extracts at the rate of 12 millions tons / year. 155th group of the country, it also has a foot in mechanics, the cement, path wood – and well of others. The price of coal that flies off assures him a comfortable reserve of cash:  enough to buy to Centrotherm (Blaubeuren) the necessary integrated chain to master the transformation of its silica in photovoltaic cells. The contract of July 14 could reach 160 millions of euros, for a "big number", of reactors and converters (to get 7 tonnes/jour of solar quality polysilice), and two lines " key in hand" of cells, of a capacity of 30 ans. First deliveries foreseen under twelve months. The market is evidently carrier:  since end 2009, the solar capacity complicates installed will reach 4 millions of Megawatts. But the stake goes farther. Of the 50 present solar Chinese producers, will survive little in ten years, to master all their chain of production. Lu’An will probably be part of the winners, having all cards in hand, raw material, fund and technology. The only question that intrigues, is what energy pushing a groups " baron of province" to pull themselves to its lethargy:  the law, who imposes him the investment maybe, in renewable energies?