Glimmering sea of solar as China expands desert installation
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Glimmering sea of solar as China expands desert installation
An ocean of blue solar panels ripples across the ochre dunes of Inner Mongolia's Kubuqi desert, a glittering example of China's almost inconceivably mammoth energy transition.
Ordos (China), 25 Sept 2025 (AFP) – In a desert in northern China, an ocean of blue solar panels covers the ochre sand, marrying the relief of dunes like waves, symbol of the energy transition to forced march of the Asian giant. "Before there was nothing here (...) it was completely deserted," [...]
Ordos - In a desert in northern China, an ocean of blue solar panels covers the ochre sand, marrying the relief of dunes like waves, symbol of the energy transition to forced march of the Asian giant. "Before there was nothing here (...) it was completely deserted," recalls Chang Yongfei, a native of the region, inner Mongolia, who previously worked in the coal sector, a historic pillar of the region's economy. At 700 km from Beijing, these hund…
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