China launches world’s biggest solar power plant
The project will generate about 6.09 billion kWh of electricity each year.
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China, Beijing: A Chinese state-owned company has announced the connection of the world’s biggest solar plant to the grid in northwestern Xinjiang. The 5 GW, 200000-acre solar farm, located in a desert area of the capital Ürümqi, came online on Monday, according to notice on the state asset regulator’s website, citing the Power Construction Corp of China. The project will generate about 6.09 billion kWh of electricity each year.
The two previously largest operational solar facilities were also in western China. They are Longyuan Power Group’s Ningxia Tenggeli desert solar project and China Lüfa Qinghai New Energy’s Golmud Wutumeiren solar complex, both with a capacity of 3 GW. The sparsely populated Xinjiang region, rich in solar and wind resources, has become a hub for massive renewable energy power plants that send much of their power across long distances to the country’s densely populated eastern seaboard.
Source: Reuters
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