Tengger Desert Solar Park is the
sixth-largest photovoltaic plant in the world as of December, 2021. It is located in
Zhongwei
Zhongwei (, Xiao'erjing: جْووِ شِ) is a prefecture-level city of Ningxia, People's Republic of China. It has an area of and a population of 1,174,600 in 2019. The city is known for its wolfberry and Gobi watermelon cultivation. One of the ...
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Ningxia
Ningxia, officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in Northwestern China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1954 but was later separated from Gansu in 1958 and reconstituted as an autonomous ...
, China. It covers an area of 43 km
2. In 2018, it was the solar park with the largest peak power capacity (1,547
MW).
See also
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List of photovoltaic power stations
The following is a list of photovoltaic power stations that are larger than 500 megawatts (MW) in current net capacity.Note that nominal power may be AC or DC, depending on the plant, and therefore any totals quoted are hybrid. SeAC-DC conundru ...
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List of power stations in China
The following page lists some power stations in mainland China, sorted by energy source and location.
Coal
Nuclear
Hydroelectric
Solar
Tide
Wind
By location
The following pages list the major power stations ...
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Solar power in China
China is the largest market in the world for both photovoltaics and solar thermal energy.
China's photovoltaic industry began by making panels for satellites, and transitioned to the manufacture of domestic panels in the late 1990s. After sub ...
References
Photovoltaic power stations in China
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