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From: Eric7/2/2024 7:53:56 PM
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China is building a mammoth 8 GW solar farm



Michelle Lewis | Jul 2 2024 - 2:46 pm PT

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State-owned power company China Three Gorges Renewables Group will build an 8 GW solar farm as part of a nearly $11 billion integrated energy project.

To put the sheer size of the 8 GW solar farm in perspective, the three largest solar farms in the world by capacity are China’s Ningxia Tenggeli and Golmud Wutumeiren solar farms, with a capacity of 3 GW each, and a 3.5-GW solar farm outside Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital.

In addition to the massive solar farm, the $10.99 billion project will also consist of 4 GW of wind, 5 GWh of energy storage capacity, 200 MW of solar thermal, and (disappointingly) 4 GW of coal-fired power. It will be sited in Ordos, in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region, the Shanghai-listed company said in a stock filing.

China Three Gorges says that the enormous integrated energy site’s power will be dispatched to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster in northern China via an ultra-high voltage power transmission line.

The project will break ground in September and is expected to come online by June 2027.

China Three Gorges Renewables will take a 56% stake, and Inner Mongolia Energy Group will control 44%.

Read more: In a world first, China installs an 18 MW offshore wind turbine

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My comments:

By way of comparison Grand Coulee Dam here in Washington State on the Columbia River theoretically could produce 6.7 Gigawatts of power at maximum output.

The largest hydroelectric dam in the United States.

Eric
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