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● China's Solar Future

Q3, 2017

China has reached its solar energy installation target for 2020, reaffirming its position as the largest producer of solar power on earth

China added 10.52 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity to its national total over the course of July 2017, in addition to the 24.4 GW of capacity that was installed over the first six months of the year. The country is already the biggest producer of solar energy in the world, and that doesn’t seem likely to change any time soon.

In the last two months, China has added 24.02 GW of solar capacity. To put that into context, figures from earlier this year put Australia’s total capacity at around 6GW, a figure that’s projected to double by 2020. The US currently has a total capacity of 44.7 GW.

China has already cleared its goal of reaching a capacity of 105 GW by the end of 2020. The country has now attained 112.34 GW, and as such has tweaked its forecast for 2017, now predicting that this year’s installations will total between 40 and 45 GW when all is said and done.

The World Doubled Its Solar Power Capacity in 2016

● https://futurism.com/the-world-doubled-its-solar-power-capacity-in-2016/

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:NASA_Thermonuclear_Art_The_Sun_In_Ultra_HD_4K.gif

https://solarthermalmagazine.com/top-10-solar-manufacturing-facilties-in-the-world/

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/africa/ouarzazate-morocco-solar-plant/index.html

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/04/morocco-to-switch-on-first-phase-of-worlds-largest-solar-plant

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● California 'Out in Front'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_plants_in_the_Mojave_Desert

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_California

http://www.energy.ca.gov/sitingcases/solar/

http://www.catchingthesun.tv/