A massive solar farm in the Tengger Desert, located in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China, has an installed capacity of 3 gigawatts and an investment of 15.2 billion yuan. The first phase of this project will achieve a power generation capacity of 1 million kilowatts.
Once the base is completed and operational, the annual electricity production will reach 5.78 billion kilowatt-hours, which is equivalent to saving 1.92 million tons of standard coal per year. In addition to generating electricity and reducing coal usage, the project also utilizes the area to mitigate the problem of desert expansion.
The solar cell base is part of a national project to transmit electricity from Ningxia to Hunan Province. It is the first ultra-high-voltage power transmission channel with a desert photovoltaic base in China, primarily delivering new energy. Spanning 1,467 kilometers, it is expected to increase Hunan's electricity supply by one-sixth by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25).
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