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We’ve got a new largest solar power plant in the world. It was recently powered on in — well, guess where. I’ll just insert a picture of the solar farm here while you think about it.solar farm. About 10 years ago, I visited what was once the largest solar power plant. It had 100 megawatts of power capacity, and it was enormous. We rode around part of it on a 4-wheeler. 3.5 gigawatts isThe solar farm required 15.45 billion Chinese yuan of investment to build.
The Xinjiang Midong solar project is expected to produce about 6.09 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. Explaining how much that could power is probably pointless — they’re all just huge numbers that we can’t truly wrap our minds around — but for comparison, that’s about as much electricity as Cameroon or Armenia uses.
And to wrap things up, remember, that is a 3.5-gigawatt solar farm. China Green Development Investment Group plans to reach 20 gigawatts of solar capacity by the end of the year. Good luck to you, brothers and sisters.CleanTechnica as its director, chief editor, and CEO. Zach is recognized globally as an electric vehicle, solar energy, and energy storage expert. He has presented about cleantech at conferences in India, the UAE, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, the USA, Canada, and Curaçao.
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