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China’s Molten-Salt Bet: Solar That Runs After Dark

China’s Molten-Salt Bet: Solar That Runs After Dark

Oct 21, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Smartgrids, Solar

On October 1, China connected a solar plant that keeps generating after the sun goes down. The 1 GW project at Talatan, in Qinghai, pairs 900 MW of ordinary photovoltaics with a 100 MW tower that stores eight hours of heat in molten salt, and PowerChina expects it to...