Xiaotun Township Photovoltaic Panels

How many ground-mounted PV power stations are there in China?

According to our dataset, China has a total of 2467.7 km 2 ground-mounted PV power stations in 2020. The top three largest provinces refer to Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai, whose PV area ratio are 14.92%, 12.49% and 11.26%, respectively, with a total of nearly 40% of all the PV power stations of China.

Are PV panels installed capacity and electricity generation predicted in China by 2050?

Accumulated national (2011–2020) and provincial (2016–2020) PV panels installation capacity and electricity generation data were obtained from China Electricity Council (2021), and predicted PV installation capacity and electricity generation in China by 2050 were from Wang et al. (2019).

Where is photovoltaic power plant located in Xinjiang?

On the flat ground at the foot of the Karakoram Mountains, a range of blue-black photovoltaic panels are laid in rows on the plateau, receiving power from the sun. Here is a poverty alleviation photovoltaic power plant located about 25 km southeast of Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County in the Kashgar region, Xinjiang.

Where are PV power stations located in China?

It should also be noted that with the rapid development of China’s PV industry, increasingly more eastern provinces built large-scale PV power stations, including Jiangsu, Anhui and Shandong Province. Areas of PV power stations for each province of China.

Does China have a spatial map of PV power stations?

Although some researchers released several PV power station maps, most only met a medium resolution of 30 meters 9, 10. There thus still lacks a national map of China’s PV power stations with a higher spatial resolution (i.e., 10 meters) that could provide a global understanding of PV’s spatial deployment patterns.

What can a 10-m national-scale distribution dataset tell us about China's PV power stations?

Above all, as the first publicly released 10-m national-scale distribution dataset of China’s ground-mounted PV power stations, it can provide data references for relevant researchers in fields such as energy, land, remote sensing and environmental sciences.