Beijing: A Chinese state-owned company says that it has connected the world’s biggest solar plant to the grid in northwestern Xinjiang.
The 5-gigawatt (GW), 200,000-acre solar farm established in a desert area of the capital Urumqi.
The facility will generate about 6.09 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity each year.
Xinjiang, rich in solar and wind resources, has become a hub for massive renewable energy bases.
According to the Global Energy Monitor’s solar power tracker, the two largest operational solar facilities previously were also in western China - 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 3GW.
