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China opens world’s biggest solar farm with 6.09 billion kWh annual capacity | The plant has a total capacity of 6.09 billion kWh, which is enough to a small country for an entire year.

China has just connected what it claims to be the world's biggest solar plant to the grid in the Xinjiang region of the country.

This makes it an ideal site for massive renewable energy bases that transmit most of their power over long distances to China’s densely populated eastern seaboard. Since the 1990s, Ürümqi has experienced significant economic development and currently functions as a regional transport hub and a cultural, political, and commercial center. Data released by China’s National Energy Administration last year revealed that the country’s solar electricity generation capacity grew by a staggering 55.2 percent in 2023.

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