Shanghai sets ball rolling on offshore PVs
An offshore PV company's booth is seen during a solar power expo in Shanghai in June. Experts said there is significant growth potential for offshore photovoltaics, which leverage vast ocean areas and abundant sunlight to overcome land limitations and provide a new platform for solar power generation. Lin Boqiang, head of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy at Xiamen University, said China's photovoltaic industry is unevenly distributed, with most large-scale solar power generation stations concentrated in the resource-rich Northwest China, while eastern areas have intense demand for electricity where solar stations are few due to high land costs and other resource limitations. Before Shanghai's initiative to develop offshore solar power, provinces like Shandong and Zhejiang had already introduced policies to promote the development of offshore photovoltaics. Cui Lin, deputy secretary-general of the offshore photovoltaic professional committee of CPIA, said the rapid development of offshore solar power will give rise to emerging sectors like hydrogen production from seawater using offshore photovoltaics.
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