WORLD’S LARGEST SOLAR FARM TO POWER 320,000 HOMES

 

China is helping Pakistan build the largest solar farm in the world. The Chinese company xinjiang sunoasis took only three months to install a 100 megawatt (MW), 400,000 panel pilot power project marking the first solar power plant in Pakistan. The plant started selling electricity to the grid last month, according to china Dialogue. The Quaid-e-Azam solar powern park is a $130 million project on nearly 500 acres of land in the cholistan desert in Punjab. The area’s 13 hours of daily sunlight and its flat expanse of desert make it ideal for a solar farm. “The solar park will also shrink Pakistan’s carbon footprint,” Najam Ahmed Shah, the Chief executive of the solar park, told China Dialogue, “Displacing about 57,500 tonnes of coal burn and reducing emissions by 90,750 tonnes every year.”