For a Green Olympic
‘Let Zhangbei’s wind light up Beijing.” This used to be the slogan of a renewable energy project, a major scheme to provide clean energy during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. Zhangbei, a county in Hebei Province in north China, is one of the four places where power stations were built to convert wind, solar and other green energies into flexible direct current.
On June 29, after three years of construction, the project, the first of its kind in the world, went into operation. Electricity generated by clean sustainable sources in Zhangbei was transmitted to Beijing, lighting up select venues in the capital.
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