2026-04-08 OMG!!
“”China just finished the largest energy project in human history — 50 gigawatts from one location in the Gobi Desert.
The Kubuqi Desert Renewable Energy Megabase covers 100,000 hectares of Inner Mongolia with 35 gigawatts of solar and 15 gigawatts of wind across the same landscape. Construction required 280,000 workers over five years installing 120 million solar panels and 4,000 wind turbines across terrain receiving 3,200 sunshine hours and average winds of 8.5 meters per second year round.
Ultra-high-voltage DC transmission lines carry electricity 2,200 kilometers east to Beijing Shanghai and Guangdong at 80 percent efficiency, delivering 44 gigawatts net. Annual generation of 110 terawatt-hours powers 100 million Chinese homes, replacing coal plants emitting 88 million tons of CO2 annually from this single location.
China approved four additional desert megabases targeting 200 gigawatts of Gobi renewable capacity by 2030 under the national energy plan.
Source: China Three Gorges Corporation, China National Energy Administration, 2025
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