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6 FAQs about [Xinyan Solar Power Plant]
Is Xinjiang a solar farm?
The new solar farm has impressed even Elon Musk. Xinjiang is sparsely populated and abundant in solar and wind resources. 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.
Will Xinjiang & China produce solar panels?
Xinjiang will produce about half of the polysilicon in these panels, based on BNEF projections, and China will account for more than 80% of the overall supply. But consumers can’t track the provenance of their panels, since raw materials from multiple factories mix together along the solar supply chain.
How big is China's biggest solar power plant?
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 believes to be the world’s biggest solar power plant to the grid in northwestern Xinjiang.
What happens inside Xinjiang's coal-fired power plants?
The only structures that rise up among miles of rolling snow-covered fields are the chimneys of coal-fired power plants, belching white smoke. Almost no one outside China knows what goes on inside these factories, or two others elsewhere in Xinjiang that together produce nearly half the world’s polysilicon supply.
Where are China's largest solar facilities?
The two largest operational solar facilities previously were also in western China - Longyuan Power Group's Ningxia Tenggeli desert solar project and China Lüfa Qinghai New Energy's Golmud Wutumeiren solar complex, both with a capacity of 3GW, according to the Global Energy Monitor's solar power tracker.
Will China build solar farms in politically sensitive regions?
The IEA notes that China met its own 2020 target for solar energy capacity additions three years early. There may be another incentive behind China’s drive to build solar farms in some politically sensitive regions.