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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good!

Their net coal capacity grew by 48 gw in 2023 alone. They need a shitload more solar than this just to stop accelerating their coal dependency.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is the advantage of an 8GW solar farm compared to say 100 80MW farms? The smaller ones should be distributed over more land, cancelling out clouds and do not interrupt the landscape nearly as much as the large one.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

China Three Gorges says that the enormous integrated energy site’s power will be dispatched to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster in northern China via an ultra-high voltage power transmission line.

These are build in the desert and power is transmitted via a single large transmission line.

It's probably easier to do so from a planning and regulatory standpoint, but I agree that otherwise it would be wiser to have them closer to the end users.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

That makes sense.