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- May 31, 201790% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
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- Jun 1, 201790% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
China Is Now Powered by the World's Largest Floating Solar Power Plant
- Sungrow announced that the world's largest floating PV plant, 40MW, was supplying power to the grid in Huainan, a coal-rich city in Anhui province, China[1][2][3]
- It sits on a reservoir formed over a flooded former mining site with water 4 to 10 meters deep, where mineral leaching had left the water otherwise unusable[1][3]
- Smithsonian, on 7 June 2017, said it was switched on the previous week, powers about 15,000 homes and produces twice as much as the previous record holder, built by Xinyi Solar in 2016 in the same area[2]
- Sungrow's turn-key system ships panels in 20-foot segments to a central SG2500-MV inverter, on a floating container foundation designed for humidity and salt spray[1][3]
- Floating solar frees up land and its water cools the panels to improve generation; a local government professional said it reduces land demand while improving generation[1][2][3]
- Context includes China's air pollution (about 1.1 million deaths a year) and the national government's cancellation of 103 coal plants in March[1]
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- [1]90%interestingengineering.com/china-powered-worlds-largest-floating-solar-power-plantinterestingengineering.com· Posted Jun 19, 2017· Starts May 31, 2017 ✓· Ends Jun 1, 2017 ✓· 35% of score
Happened as dated, per interestingengineering.com: "…ovoltaic (PV) inverter system supplier, announced the world’s largest floating PV power plant is sup…"
- [2]82%China Turns On the World's Largest Floating Solar Farmsmithsonianmag.com· Published Jun 7, 2017· 33% of score
Smithsonian confirms China's 40MW floating solar plant near Huainan "was activated in June 2017," matching the pin's claim, though the article itself is dated June 7, 2017, several days after the pin's stored 31 May-2 June window.[1]
- [3]78%The world's largest floating solar plant starts producing power in Huainan, Chinadesignboom.com· Published May 25, 2017· 32% of score
Designboom reports the Huainan floating solar facility had "begun grid operations" as of its May 25, 2017 publish date, predating the pin's stored late-May/early-June 2017 window by about a week but describing the same launch.
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