China is developing the world’s most ambitious network to transport its clean energy

China is developing the world’s most ambitious network to transport its clean energy

On the edge of the Tengger Desert in northern China, the whistling wind filters through the blades of an army of wind turbines, while the sun beats down on a sea of solar panels. From this remote landscape of light and sand, in the Ningxia Autonomous Region, a power line stretches across mountains, plateaus and valleys to reach Hengyang, in the industrial heart of Hunan Province in the south. Along more than 1,000 miles of cables and steel tower…