The Race to Build the World’s Largest Solar Farms Is Accelerating
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She writes for energy websites and covers several other industries, as well as writing… Over the last two decades, solar panels have fallen in price while efficiency has increased.
Greater uptake and high levels of investment in research and development have led to vast improvements in solar power technology.
As panel prices fall and governments worldwide look to diversify their energy mix and cut emissions, several developers are now launching mega-projects to meet the growing demand.
Most major solar projects developed in recent years provide hundreds of megawatts of clean power.
However, as operators become more ambitious and governments worldwide open up more land for development, we are seeingthe rise of the giga-scale solar park.
This was first seen in China, which has developed several gigawatt-scale projects.
However, the United States and other countries are quickly developing their own giant solar projects.
To develop gigawatt-scale solar projects, operators must have access to vast quantities of land, a large, skilled workforce, and invest in the necessary transmission infrastructure.
The heavy land use suggests that we may see more large-scale solar development in remote areas on non-arable land, such as deserts and regions plagued by drought.
In China, the largest group of solar farms is the16.9 GW Talatan Solar Park.
The park covers 162 square miles in Gonghe County, an alpine desert in sparsely inhabited Qinghai, in western China.
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