The largest solar power plant to be built in China by the Americans

First Solar – the well-known US energy company has won a tender for building the largest solar power plant in the world in China. The company will construct a 2 GW plant in Ordos, situated in в Internal Mongolia autonomous region. The building will undergo four stages during ten years. The energy produced by the plant will cover the needs of about 3 million Chinese households. By 2010 China is planning to receive 10 per cent of energy from renewable resources, by 2020 this indicator is to rise up to 15 per cent. Today the total capacity of all solar power plants operating in China amounts to 90 MW, but the authorities want the country to receive 2 GW of solar power by 2011 and 10-20 GW by 2020. Their previous aims were more modest – 1.8 GW by 2020. Wind is another source of alternative energy China is planning to utilize. According to the plans, Chinese wind power plants will generate about 40% of the total energy mix by 2050. By 2020 their total capacity will amount to 100 GW. Today China is world’s fourth largest producer of wind energy. The first three are as follows: the United States of America, Germany and Spain. As for the amount of consumed energy, here China has the second place. The capacity of Chinese wind power plants operating now makes up to 12 GW.