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Where are solar power plants located?

From the perspective of geographical distribution, larger solar power plants (≥100MW) are sparsely distributed in remote locations from urban areas, particularly in the northwest region, notably Qinghai and Xinjiang.

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.

Which raw materials are used in solar power plants in China?

Furthermore, to leverage the material in-use stock, we estimated the installed capacity using a GIS-based assessment method and quantified the four key and valuable raw materials (Al, Cu, Ag, and silicon (Si)) at the solar power plant level in China.

Is PV power a problem in China?

Meanwhile, PV power has gradually raised huge concerns in China. According to statistics 7, the installed capacity of PV power in China was only 100 MW in 2007, but grew rapidly to 205,000 MW in 2019, with an average growth of 17,075 MW per year.

What is ID number i th solar power plant?

The material stock of ID number i th solar power plant is M S i, and the geographical coordinates (longitude, latitude) of the gravity center is (X i, Y i), x, and y represent the geographical coordinates of the center of gravity material stock obtained in that year respectively.

How to determine the installation year of a solar power plant?

Then, we utilized the Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) method (Zhu and Woodcock,2014) to determine the installation year of each solar power plant combined with 30 m Landsat satellite images and the obtained solar power plant location, thereby obtaining a spatiotemporal solar power plants dataset.