China pushes ahead with renewable energies mega project

China is pushing ahead with the expansion of renewable energies in China’s deserts. Just months after Xi Jinping unveiled a massive desert project with a capacity of up to 200 gigawatts (China.Table reported), the second phase of the expansion is now underway. China’s National Energy Administration has called on provinces to submit individual projects by mid-December, Bloomberg reports. According to the report, each individual project must have a capacity of at least one gigawatt. Construction of the wind and solar power plants is scheduled for 2022 and is planned to be completed in 2023. However, the grid connection may not be finished until 2024.