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We’ve acquired a brand new largest solar energy plant on this planet. It was just lately powered on in — nicely, guess the place. I’ll simply insert an image of the photo voltaic farm right here whereas you consider it.
That’s proper — it’s in China. It’s a 3.5-gigawatt photo voltaic farm. About 10 years in the past, I visited what was as soon as the most important solar energy plant. It had 100 megawatts of energy capability, and it was monumental. We rode round a part of it on a 4-wheeler. 3.5 gigawatts is 3,500 megawatts. I can’t fathom it.
To make the dimensions of this even tougher to grasp, the facility plant contains greater than 5.26 million photo voltaic panels. These are monocrystalline bifacial double-glass photo voltaic PV panels.
The Xinjiang Midong photo voltaic mission, as it’s known as, covers 32,947 acres. It contains 129 miles of transmission strains.
“The developer is a state-owned outfit with wind and/or solar projects in 12 provinces, according to the organization’s website,” TCD writes.
The photo voltaic farm required 15.45 billion Chinese language yuan (~$2.16 billion) of funding to construct. The mission was developed by a subsidiary of China Inexperienced Improvement Funding Group.
The Xinjiang Midong photo voltaic mission is predicted to supply about 6.09 billion kilowatt-hours (or 6.09 TWh) of electrical energy per yr. Explaining how a lot that would energy might be pointless — they’re all simply enormous numbers that we will’t actually wrap our minds round — however for comparability, that’s about as a lot electrical energy as Cameroon or Armenia makes use of.
And to wrap issues up, keep in mind, that may be a 3.5-gigawatt photo voltaic farm. China Inexperienced Improvement Funding Group plans to achieve 20 gigawatts of photo voltaic capability by the top of the yr. Good luck to you, brothers and sisters.
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