China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) said on July 16 it unveiled in Xining,
Qinghai the world’s first 8.6m-aperture molten-salt trough solar thermal
collector model, Yuanyao-1. CGN said the model delivers material gains in
solar-to-electric conversion efficiency and end-to-end domestic controllability,
providing core technology support for scaled deployment of China’s solar thermal
power.