News from the 2009 Working Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is that CAS has formally initiated a solar power action program.

BP and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are to establish the Clean Energy Commercialisation Centre joint venture in Shanghai, with an investment of CNY500 million to exploit clean energy technologies developed by Chinese research institutions.

The Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has signed a memorandum of understanding with the American National Renewable Energy Laboratory for collaboration on the technology of photovoltaic electricity generation.