YINCHUAN, China: Hundreds of rows of gleaming panels blanket swathes of scrubby sand at sunset in a remote northern Chinese desert - once the biggest solar farm in the world. On the edge of the forbidding Tengger desert, the solar park produces 1.
Solar panels are seen at the Tengger Desert Solar Park in China 's northern Ningxia region on Aug 21, 2024. YINCHUAN, China : Hundreds of rows of gleaming panels blanket swathes of scrubby sand at sunset in a remote northern Chinese desert - once the biggest solar farm in the world.
The vast solar arrays in the Ningxia region are a testament to a state-led industrial policy that has driven that breakneck growth. "China's solar energy is developing at an unprecedented pace and scale," said analyst Wu Di from Peking University's Institute of Energy. The government only permitted around nine GW of new coal power in the first half of 2024, a year-on-year reduction of 83 per cent, according to a report published this month by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.
"In the future, in order to control the solar curtailment ratio within a reasonable range, China still has lots of work to do," said Wu.
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