Dezhou City, China (CCTV) — China, one of the world’s leading countries in clean energy investment, has made efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions which is growing at an alarming rate globally.
Playing football is just like doing solar business, and one needs passion, spirits and persistence to carry out the career, said Huang Ming, chairman of Himin Solar Company Ltd., adding that China is much more advanced than western countries in utilization of solar energy.
His Himin Solar company, located in Dezhou city, east China’s Shandong Province, is a solar water heater manufacturer. Himin Solar has been central in the development of the Solar Valley in the city.
“This is a typical building of Solar Valley. We call it Sun and Moon Mansion. We design this building to symbolize the full application of solar energy. We meld symbol into full application. This is a very hard job for so-called solar architects. Yet we made it,” said Huang.
However, he said that there must be more practical solutions than Solar Valley, and the only way out, according to Huang, is commercialization.
The efficiency of PV panel is usually less than 20 percent, while the efficiency of solar thermal is three times higher than PV, and the cost is only one third of PV, he said.
Huang said they have a slogan: Solar Everything, Everything is Solar. Solar could be anywhere, anytime, everybody, and every family.
“My dream is that all the people will automatically buy solar, go green, but not driven by policies,” he said.
“In the these 30 years, almost 30 years, every day I’ve been convincing people, by talk, by experience, by demonstrations, by R and D, by discussion, and by hard work,” according to Huang.
And all these must be from a passion on renewable energy, on the good life of your people, he explained.
“I’m starting to think that solar can help to save energy and to save our world,” said Nurathirah Nabilaothman, a student from the University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia during a training program in Dezhou.
“I’m convinced that the technologies that are applied here would actually have the potential to save the energy that are wasted,” said Hafizhanbin Zailani, another student from the university.
Huang Ming then showed an area called “Future Village” where some vacuum tubes, working as solar collectors, on the façade can heat water for daily use and the central heating for the winter.
Other houses are even more advanced that they can provide a substantial part of the energies the houses really need, according to him.
“In comparison with the significance to be the leader of the new industry, the loneliness, the danger, the risk, is nothing,” according to Huang.
As the world’s largest energy consumer, China is aiming to lead the world in green energy to reduce its vast environmental footprint. Huang Ming’s solar valley is just one of many projects in store for the future.
For Huang Ming, solutions are at hand, the key is to act now. Today is an era that no country is immune to climate change.