# China bets on molten salt and CO2 to meet power needs

https://mins.news/en/item/96081

- South China Morning Post, 2026-10-12 08:41 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.scmp.com/plus/news/china/science/article/3370584/china-bets-molten-salt-and-co2-help-meet-its-power-needs?utm_source=rss_feed

> China has begun constructing the Ruitan project at a coal-fired power station in Yantai, Shandong. It is billed as the world’s first utility-scale plant to combine supercritical CO2 generation with large-scale molten salt storage, testing whether the technologies can reduce energy waste and stabilize the grid. Electricity generated when demand is low will be stored.