State Grid, which is China’s third-largest largest company in revenue terms, will join DII through its subsidiary China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI).

State Grid is “very keen to find options for contributing effectively to future transmission extension projects connecting countries and continents”, explains CEPRI vice president Liang Zhong Yao.

Among State Grid’s most pressing challenges is finding an economical way to link the immense wind and solar resources in western China to the country’s coastal demand centres.

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