Developed countries have already put forward feasible plans for future solar power generation.
The Genesis Project proposed by Japan. Utilize the desert and ocean areas on the ground to generate electricity, and connect global solar power stations to a unified power grid through superconducting cables to provide power to the world. According to estimates, by 2100, even if all solar power is used to supply global energy, it will only occupy an area of 8,291,900 square kilometers. The 8,291,900 square kilometers accounted for 2.3% of the total ocean area or 51.4% of the total desert, or even 91.5% of the Sahara Desert. Therefore, this scheme is possible.
Heavenly power generation program. As early as 1980, NASA and the Department of Energy proposed the idea of building a solar power station in space. They planned to place a large flat plate 10 kilometers long and 5 kilometers wide on a synchronous orbit, covered with solar cells, so that it could provide 5 million. Kilowatts of electricity. But this needs to solve the problem of wireless transmission to the ground. Various solutions such as microwave beams and laser beams have been proposed. Although model airplanes have been used to achieve short-distance, short-term, low-power microwave wireless transmission, it still takes a long way to go before it is truly practical.
The rapid growth of China's photovoltaic power generation Since 2005, China's photovoltaic industry has developed rapidly in the international market. In a short period of five years from 2011 to 2016, China’s total photovoltaic power generation has reached 77.42GW, and both new and cumulative installed capacity are the world’s largest. In terms of power generation, China is now the world’s largest solar power Power generation country is twice that of the United States.
Hemi Bahar of the United Nations International Energy Agency said: China has now ruled the photovoltaic power generation field. More than 60% of the world’s solar panels are produced in China. Don’t underestimate this number. The biggest obstacle to the development of the photovoltaic industry is solar energy. The high cost of solar panels.
China's ability to produce 60% of the world's solar panels shows that China has mastered the method to reduce material production costs. In the future, solar power generation as a clean energy source is bound to become a development trend!