Bandi Township Photovoltaic Power Station

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.

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.

What percentage of PV power stations are located on grasslands?

The statistical results showed that in 2020, 40.89 % of PV power stations were established on grasslands, 24.88 % on croplands, 17.01 % and 14.14 % on barren lands and buildings, 2.12 % on water, and only 0.96 % on forests or shrubs. Fig. 11. The statistics of land-use coverage type occupied by China’s PV power stations in 2020. 3.3.

How big is China's PV power station?

China’s total PV power station area in 2020 was estimated as 2635.64 km 2. China’s PV power generation in 2020 was calculated to be 238.65 TWh. This power amount is equivalent to reducing carbon emissions by 149.63 million tons. Evaluation results favor Sustainable Development Goals and carbon neutrality.

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.

How are PV arrays arranged in the construction of PV power stations?

In the construction of PV power stations, the distribution of PV arrays is usually concentrated in areas with gentle terrain, while their arrangement in areas with undulating terrain takes more consideration of the influence of topographic factors, resulting in a large variance in spacing between PV arrays.