China Builds World’s Largest Solar Park in Tibet, Ten Times the Size of Manhattan

China Builds World’s Largest Solar Park in Tibet, Ten Times the Size of Manhattan

Talatan solar farms in the Gonghe Basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Credit: Siqi Yang / CC BY 4.0 In a remote stretch of the Tibetan Plateau, China is rapidly expanding what is now the world’s largest solar park, a sprawling renewable energy complex that already covers an area more than seven times the size of Manhattan. Located in Qinghai Province, the Talatan Solar Park is set in a high-altitude desert where strong sunlight and cold temperat…