(Bloomberg) -- China started generating power from its first gigawatt-level offshore solar project in the eastern province of Shandong. The massive open-sea photovoltaic plant made its first connection to the grid on Wednesday, according to its developer, a unit of China Energy Investment Corp.
The numbers tell much of the story of the Midong solar farm. The installation, located in Urumqi in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, in the Gobi Desert of China, has 3.5 GW of generation capacity, and at present is the largest solar power installation worldwide. State-owned China Green Development Group (CGDG) is behind the project.
The project off Dongying is expected to generate almost 1.8 billion kilowatt hours of power a year after completion, and is estimated to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1.3 million tons annually, according to the company.
The solar farm was built by China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Corp. and Power Construction Corp. of China. Midong features 5.26 million 650-W monocrystalline bifacial double-glass photovoltaic (PV) panels.
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