China expands highway solar as provinces race to decarbonize transport
China is rapidly installing PV along highways, combining slopes, tunnels, and service areas to generate renewable electricity and cut transport-sector emissions.
The implementation of PV systems on highways (Figure 1), that is, roofing highways with PV panels, holds great promise to increase renewable energy production and to alleviate the contradiction between land availability and energy accessibility through the three-dimensional space use of land.
Schematic diagram of the highway photovoltaics (PV) system. Roofing highways with solar panels generates green electricity that is delivered to the grid to replace the electricity from fossil fuels, thereby contributing to CO 2 e emission reductions.
Photovoltaic (PV) installations are a leading technology for generating green electricity and reducing carbon emissions. Roofing highways with solar panels offers a new opportunity for PV development, but its potential of global deployment and associated socio-economic impacts have not been investigated.
Several pilot projects of highway PV in China, the United States (US), Germany, Austria, and Switzerland have already demonstrated the technical feasibility of using PV to supply electricity for highway rest areas and tunnels (Enkhardt, 2020; Steven, 2016). These projects imply that the benefits of the highway PV mainly embody two aspects.
China is rapidly installing PV along highways, combining slopes, tunnels, and service areas to generate renewable electricity and cut transport-sector emissions.
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