By Yuling Chen, EDITOR

Chongqing Bishan National High-tech Zone was announced on November 18, 2018, to be home to China’s first space solar power plant experimental base. The project is in the phase of land acquisition and construction permit application. The construction will begin in early 2019 and complete by the end of the year. In the meantime, it is expected that an experiment will be carried out in June 2019.

Chongqing Bishan National High-tech Zone (Photo by Yin Jing)

The space solar power station is a power generation system that builds solar power stations in Earth orbit, collects solar energy, and provides continuous power to the ground through wireless transmission.

The first phase of the project will cost about RMB 100 million, with a total construction area of about 200 mu(13.33 hectares). The core test area is about 106 mu, including the space test site, balloon platform debugging hall and laboratory building. The peripheral isolation area is about 94 mu, planting spaceship-carried plants.

Source: Chongqing Daily