Colleen Howe of Reuters reports China’s solar farm, the biggest in the world, is now online. Howe writes:
A Chinese state-owned company said on Monday it had connected the world’s biggest solar plant to the grid in northwestern Xinjiang.
The 5-gigawatt (GW), 200,000-acre solar farm, in a desert area of the capital Urumqi, came online on Monday, a notice on the state asset regulator’s website said, citing the Power Construction Corp of China.
The facility will generate about 6.09 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity each year. That would be enough to power the country of Papua New Guinea for a year. […]
Sparsely populated Xinjiang, rich in solar and wind resources, has become a hub for massive renewable energy bases that send much of their power across long distances to China’s densely populated eastern seaboard.
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