A Changzhou-based company in east China's Jiangsu Province has recently claimed they have successfully developed the first solar-energy building system for houses in China.
Costing 50,000 yuan (US$6,024), this solar-energy building system could meet the energy needs of families or offices for at least 30 years.
Consisting of five layers of material that jointly function to convert solar energy into electricity, the building system is expected to provide air-conditioning in summer and heating in winter.
This system has made it technologically possible utilizing solar energy on a large scale and tapping the building industry with photoelectricity, said solar-energy experts.
The fact that such building system has actually turned residential buildings into self-prepared electric stations is very practical for use in tourism, shipping and building armies, they added.
The company has planned to erect such building systems in about 100 primary schools short of funds in west China's Gansu Province, where solar energy is abundant.
(Xinhua 11/16/2000)
