Of the total global solar PV capacity, 35.45% is in China. Listed below are the five largest active solar PV power plants by capacity in China, according to GlobalData’s power plants database. GlobalData uses proprietary data and analytics to provide a complete picture of the global solar PV power segment.
Most of China's solar power is generated within its western provinces and is transferred to other regions of the country. In 2011, China owned the largest solar power plant in the world at the time, the Huanghe Hydropower Golmud Solar Park, which had a photovoltaic capacity of 200 MW.
As of data from April 2023, the largest PV solar plant in the country is the Gonghe Photovoltaic Project, located in the province of Qinghai, with a capacity of over 3,000 megawatts. Zhejiang, followed by Qinghai, were the provinces accounting for the largest capacity of operational solar power farms in 2022.
To realize the goal, China will install 500–800 GW of PV power generation in future eight years, which means the area of PV power plants will increase by 4725–7560 km 2 by 2030. The expansion patterns indicate that the western and eastern regions of China will dominate the future PV installations.
The clear spatial and temporal expansion variation suggests that China's PV power plants has the continuous and stable deployment of large-size centralized power plants in the western provinces during this period from 2010 to 2022 and the accelerated installation of small-size distributed power plants in the eastern and central provinces from 2017.
As of at least 2024, China has one third of the world's installed solar panel capacity. Most of China's solar power is generated within its western provinces and is transferred to other regions of the country.
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