Aerial view of the horse-shaped solar power station at the Kubuqi Desert in Ordos, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Photo: Courtesy of the State Power Investment Corporation Nei Mongol Energy Co
Strolling around the Junma Solar Power Station located in the Kubuqi Desert in Ordos, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, it’s hard for visitors to imagine that the area, now covered with blue solar panels and green vegetation, was once being totally barren and called the “sea of death”.Occupying an area of around 1.4 million square meters and composed of more than 196,000 photovoltaic panels to form the pattern of a galloping horse, the station is not only the largest desert PV station in China, but is also the largest solar panel image in the world and owner of a Guinness World Record.That’s also where its name comes from, as Junma literally means horse in…
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