The
160m
yuan
($23.6m),
6.68MW
solar
system
was
installed
on
the
awnings
on
both
sides
of
the
Hongqiao
Station
of
the
Beijing-Shanghai
high-speed
railway.
A
roof
area
of
61,000
square
metres
is
covered
by
20,000
solar
panels,
which
have
produced
300,000kWh
of
power
since
the
project
started
two
weeks
ago.
“It
[The
project]
comes
after
the
country
[China]
set
a
voluntary
target
of
cutting
carbon
intensity
per
unit
of
GDP
by
40%
to
45%
by
2020,”
says
Yu
Hailong,
general
manager
of
the
Beijing-based
China
Energy
Conservation
and
Environmental
Protection
Group,
the
project’s…
