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Tibet develops 'sunshine economy'

Friday, November 21, 2008

The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is developing "sunshine economy" based on its plentiful sunshine resources. Solar stoves and solar water heaters have been widely used in the local people's daily life and technologies for using solar energy for electricity power or heat energy have been adopted in the region.

Boasting the most abundant solar energy because its annual sunlight time amounts to 3,000 hours, Tibet has natural advantage in popularizing solar energy application. Most areas of TAR receive sunshine radiation of 6,000-8,000 mega-joule per square meter, doubling that of plain places.

As planned, up to 2015, 250,000 solar energy stoves will be built in the region and a passive solar house covering 3.3 million square meters will be constructed.


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