World biggest Solar Farm - Chinese of course

[slogen51]

You have to take your hat off to the Chinese - they certainly know how to make progress

'World’s biggest solar farm goes online, big enough to power a country'

Ripped from the Independent:-
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/sola ... 56888.html

'The world’s biggest solar plant has come online in China, capable of powering a small country with its annual capacity of more than 6 billion kilowatt hours.

The facility in a desert region of the north-west province of Xinjiang covers 200,000 acres – roughly the same area as New York City

The world’s biggest solar plant has come online in China, capable of powering a small country with its annual capacity of more than 6 billion kilowatt hours.

The facility in a desert region of the north-west province of Xinjiang covers 200,000 acres – roughly the same area as New York City.

The 5GW complex, which was connected to China’s grid on Monday, is powerful enough to meet the electricity demands of a country the size of Luxembourg or Papua New Guinea.

China has led the world in solar power adoption, boosting its capacity in 2023 by more than 50 per cent. The new solar farm overtakes the Ningxia Teneggeli and Golmud Wutumeiren solar projects, which are both also in China, to become the largest in the world.

A recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) described China’s drive towards renewables as “extraordinary”, with the country commissioning as much solar capacity last year as the entire world did in 2022.

"China accounts for almost 60 per cent of new renewable capacity expected to become operational globally by 2028,” the report stated.

[iainpeden]

That’s more than two Isle of Wight’s (blame the apostrophe on uncorrectable predictive text).

[TealRain]

But they've also got their heads screwed on...

https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-respo ... port-says/

[raptor9]

Makes my 16 panels look puny!.