Largest Solar Power Plant In World 2015

Tengger desert solar park.

Largest solar power plant in world 2015.

Located in the sahara desert the project has a 580 megawatt capacity and is estimated to provide electricity to more than one million people once completed by 2020. In 2016 the largest photovoltaic power station in the world was the 850 mw longyangxia dam solar park in gonghe county qinghai china. According to government statistics from july 2016 to january 2017 datong generated a total of 870 million watts of electricity equivalent to more than 120 million watts per month of power generation. The agua caliente largest solar power plant project is located in yuma county arizona 65 miles east of yuma covering 2 400 acres of land.

These two plants were superseded by a new world s largest facility in june 2015 when the 579 mw ac solar star project went online in the antelope valley region of los angeles county california. The plant is installed with approximately four million solar panels and is operated by state power investment corporation one of china s top five power generators. Datong solar power plant in china has the potential to be the largest solar plant in the world once completed. Below is a list of 10 largest solar power stations in the world.

Noor complex solar power farm is the largest concentrated solar power csp plant in the world. The project was awarded to a consortium led by abu dhabi national energy company taqa and masdar with partners edf and jinkopower for the development of the 2gw al dhafra solar photovoltaic pv independent power producer ipp project which will be. The andasol solar power station spain uses a molten salt thermal energy storage to generate electricity even when the sun isn t shining. The ivanpah solar project in san bernardino california united states.

As the largest single location solar plant in the world at the time of its completion the kamuthi solar power project utilizes 2 5 million solar modules and 380 000 foundations. Agua caliente largest solar power plant california. It currently has 290 mw of generation capacity connected to the electricity grid and was constructed by first solar which also designed and developed it. It makes up a significant part of india s recent noble efforts to become more sustainable.

Most of the solar production centers are known as solar parks which are essentially a group of co located solar power plants. Doesn t hold the title china and india are in a battle over who holds the biggest solar power plant in the world. Phase one of the power plant was completed in 2013 while phase two was completed in 2015 with a total construction cost of approximately six billion yuan 920 84m. The emirates water and electricity company ewec has announced the contract award for the world s largest solar power plant project.

Solar power is among the fastest growing sources of renewable energy in the world.