[Shache County 2GW optical storage integration project] On December 1st, Yuedian Electric announced that the Board of directors of the company agreed to take Yudean Shache Comprehensive Energy Co., LTD., a wholly-owned subsidiary, as the main investor to invest in the construction of Guangdong energy Shache County 2 million kW light storage integration project (PV construction scale of 2,000MW; Energy storage construction scale 500MW/2000MWh). The total investment of the project is 1,291,706,600 yuan. Editor/Xu Shengpeng

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• [Nantong, China starts construction of a 10000 ton deep-sea cable laying ship]
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