China is planning the world’s largest wind farm, a massive facility that could power the whole of Norway. Chaozhou - a city in China’s Guangdong province - has ambitious plans for a 43.3-gigawatt facility in the Taiwan Strait. The title is currently held by the Jiuquan Wind Power base in China, a massive site with a 20-gigawatt capacity. The facility will have 43.3 gigawatts of power-generating capability.
A gigawatt is one billion watts, and it takes around 3 million solar panels to generate one-gigawatt power. One gigawatt could power 100 million LEDs or 300,000 average European homes. So China’s new facility could power 4.3 billion LED lights or 13 million homes. Norway gets over 99 per cent of its energy from hydropower plants with a 31 GW power generating capability - less than the new Chinese facility.
«Based on China’s energy and resource endowments, we will advance initiatives to reach peak carbon emissions in a well-planned and phased way, in line with the principle of getting the new before discarding the old».
This will be interesting to see but it's going to take some time before it becomes a reality. I hope more countries do the same and try creating big wind farms so we can power more homes with cleaner energy.
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