As a recent Electrek article explains, the three largest solar energy farms in the world are located in China - “China’s Ningxia Tenggeli and Golmud Wutumeiren solar farms, with a capacity of 3 GW each, and a 3.5-GW solar farm outside Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital.” For comparison the largest non-Chinese solar farm is in India, the Bhadla Solar Park with a capacity of 2.245 GW and in North America the biggest installation is Solar Star in California which has 0.579 GW capacity.
But the latest project from China will dwarf all else - the planned and as yet unnamed farm “will break ground in September and is expected to come online by June 2027” and will have, in addition to 8 GW of solar capacity, “4 GW of wind, 5 GWh of energy storage capacity, 200 MW of solar thermal, and (disappointingly) 4 GW of coal-fired power.”
Let us hope that during the construction time the inclusion of coal-fired power will be reconsidered and eliminated.