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Tengger Desert Solar Park

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Tengger Desert Solar Park is a photovoltaic solar power station near Zhongwei in the Ningxia region of China, covering about 43 square kilometers of the Tengger Desert. Its nameplate capacity is about 1,547 megawatts, and as of December 2021 it ranked as the sixth largest photovoltaic power plant in the world; when it first reached its peak capacity in 2018 it was briefly the solar park with the largest peak power capacity anywhere.

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Facility Type
Photovoltaic solar power station 1
Location
Zhongwei, Ningxia, China 1
Capacity (MW)
1547 1
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Status
Operational 1
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Photovoltaic solar park, Ningxia, China, among the largest solar parks in the world by capacity.

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1. Wikipedia
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  • Wikipedia article, introduction paragraph
    Zhongwei, Ningxia, China
  • Wikipedia article infobox, ps_electrical_capacity field
    1.547 GW
  • Operating status, entity description
    as of December 2021 it ranked as the sixth largest photovoltaic power plant in the world
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