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The following is a list of photovoltaic power stations that are larger than 300
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s (MW) in current net capacity.Note that nominal power may be AC or DC, depending on the plant, and therefore any totals quoted are hybrid. Se
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photovoltaic power station A photovoltaic power station, also known as a solar park, solar farm, or solar power plant, is a large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic power system (PV system) designed for the supply of merchant power. They are different from most building ...
s, but some are groups of co-located plants owned by different independent power producers and with separate
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connections to the grid. Wiki-Solar reports total global capacity of utility-scale photovoltaic plants to be some 96 GWAC which generated 1.3% of global power by the end of 2016. The size of photovoltaic power stations has increased progressively over the last decade with frequent new capacity records. The 97 MW
Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant near Sarnia, Ontario, is Canada's largest photovoltaic plant with an installed capacity of 97  MWP (80 MWAC). In 2009, Ontario introduced a feed-in tariff renewable energy payments program paying up ...
went online in 2010.
Huanghe Hydropower Golmud Solar Park Huanghe Hydropower's Golmud Solar park is a 200 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station located in Golmud, Qinghai Province, China. Construction began in August 2009, and it was commissioned on October 29, 2011. 80 MW was provided by Yin ...
reached 200 MW in 2012. In August 2012, Agua Caliente Solar Project in Arizona reached 247 MW only to be passed by three larger plants in 2013. In 2014, two plants were tied as largest:
Topaz Solar Farm Topaz Solar Farm is a 550 megawatt ( MWAC) photovoltaic power station in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. Construction on the project began in November 2011 and ended in November 2014. It is one of the world's largest sol ...
, a PV solar plant at 550 MW AC in central coast area and a second 550-MW plant, the
Desert Sunlight Solar Farm The Desert Sunlight Solar Farm is a 550 megawatt (MW AC) photovoltaic power station approximately six miles north of Desert Center, California, United States, in the Mojave Desert. It uses approximately 8.8 million cadmium telluride module ...
located in the far eastern desert region of
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. These two plants were superseded by a new world's largest facility in June 2015 when the 579 MWAC
Solar Star Solar Star is a 579-megawatt ( MWAC) photovoltaic power station near Rosamond, California, United States, that is operated and maintained by SunPower Services. When completed in June 2015, it was the world's largest solar farm in terms of insta ...
project went online in the Antelope Valley region of Los Angeles County, California. In 2016, the largest photovoltaic power station in the world was the 850 MW
Longyangxia Dam Solar Park The Longyangxia Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam at the entrance of the Longyangxia canyon on the Yellow River in Gonghe County, Qinghai Province, China. The dam is tall and was built for the purposes of hydroelectric power generation, irri ...
, in Gonghe County,
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. This was passed in 2019 with the completion of the
Pavagada Solar Park Pavagada Solar Park is a solar park covering an area of in Pavagada taluk, Tumkur district, Karnataka. Completed in 2019, the park has a capacity of 2,050 MW. As of April 2021, it is the World's third largest photovoltaic solar park after t ...
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, India, with a capacity of 2050 MW. The
Pavagada Solar Park Pavagada Solar Park is a solar park covering an area of in Pavagada taluk, Tumkur district, Karnataka. Completed in 2019, the park has a capacity of 2,050 MW. As of April 2021, it is the World's third largest photovoltaic solar park after t ...
is also the first solar power park to cross the 2 GW mark. Bhadla Solar Park became the largest solar park in 2020 with a capacity of 2,245 MW. Spread across more than , the park is located at Bhadla village in Jodhpur district in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan. As with other forms of power generation, significant challenges exist with regard to regional habitat modification, such as that resulting from the
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effect, and the resulting stress to local threatened species. Several planned large facilities in the U.S. state of California have been downsized due in part to such concerns.


World's largest photovoltaic power stations

The following is a list of operating solar farms that are 300 MW or larger.
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reports that 35 projects of at least 200 MW were commissioned in 2019, up from 30 in 2018. These lists include a mixture of individual solar power plants and of groups of co-located projects, usually called solar parks. File:LieberoseSolarpark.jpg, Lieberose Photovoltaic Park File:Juwi PV Field.jpg,
Waldpolenz Solar Park The Waldpolenz Solar Park is a 52-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station built by German developer and operator Juwi at a former military air base near Leipzig, Eastern Germany. When completed by the end of 2008, it was the world's largest ...
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DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center The DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center is a photovoltaic power station in Arcadia, DeSoto County, in the U.S. state of Florida, owned by Florida Power & Light (FPL). President Barack Obama attended the plant's commissioning on October&nb ...


Timeline of the largest PV power stations


Largest PV power stations in each country


See also

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Photovoltaics Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially ...
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Solar energy Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of technologies such as solar power to generate electricity, solar thermal energy (including solar water heating), and solar architecture. It is an essen ...
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Solar power satellite Space-based solar power (SBSP, SSP) is the concept of collecting solar power in outer space by solar power satellites (SPS) and distributing it to Earth. Its advantages include a higher collection of energy due to the lack of reflection and a ...


References


Further reading

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Deploying Renewables 2011 ''Deploying Renewables 2011: Best and Future Policy Practice'' is a 2011 book by the International Energy Agency. The book analyses the recent successes in renewable energy, which now accounts for almost a fifth of all electricity produced worl ...
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*'' Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era'' (2011) by
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*'' Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation'' (2011) by the
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Solar Energy Perspectives ''Solar Energy Perspectives'' is a 2011 book by the International Energy Agency. Solar energy technologies come in various forms – solar heating, solar photovoltaics, solar thermal electricity – and can make considerable contributions to sol ...
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External links


PV Resources.com - World's largest photovoltaic power plantsSolar Energy Industry Association - Large Solar Projects in the US
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