The first batch of 20 Chinese solar thermal power projects online by 2018, said the National Energy Administration(NEA) on Wednesday.
The projects with a total capacity of 1.35 gigawatt are concentrated in the five provinces that receive the most sunlight in the nation, Qinghai, Gansu, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, said the NEA.
Solar thermal power plant use solar arrays to heat water that produces steam that runs turbines to produce electricity.
