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The negotiations continue with plenty of disagreement about the way forward, as we approach the halfway mark in Baku, AzerbaijanChina has powered up the world’s largest open-sea offshore solar farm, according to Electrek. Power company CHN Energy has connected the first solar units from a one gigawatt (GW) offshore solar farm – the world’s first and largest of its kind – to the grid.The massive project is located off the coast of Dongying City in Shandong Province, eastern China.The project sits 8 km (5 miles) off the coast and spans an impressive 1,223 hectares (3,023 acres). It uses 2,934 solar platforms that rest on large-scale offshore steel truss foundations, each platform measuring 60m (197 feet) by 35m (115 feet).It’s the first time in China that a 66-kilovolt offshore cable paired with an onshore cable has been used for high-capacity, long-distance electricity transmission in the solar sector. Continue reading...
The negotiations continue with plenty of disagreement about the way forward, as we approach the halfway mark in Baku, Azerbaijan
China has powered up the world’s largest open-sea offshore solar farm, according to Electrek. Power company CHN Energy has connected the first solar units from a one gigawatt (GW) offshore solar farm – the world’s first and largest of its kind – to the grid.
The massive project is located off the coast of Dongying City in Shandong Province, eastern China.
The project sits 8 km (5 miles) off the coast and spans an impressive 1,223 hectares (3,023 acres). It uses 2,934 solar platforms that rest on large-scale offshore steel truss foundations, each platform measuring 60m (197 feet) by 35m (115 feet).
It’s the first time in China that a 66-kilovolt offshore cable paired with an onshore cable has been used for high-capacity, long-distance electricity transmission in the solar sector. Continue reading...
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