{"id":43551,"date":"2026-01-10T00:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43551"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:14:44","slug":"chinas-largest-solar-farm-is-doing-a-lot-more-than-generating-energy-slashgear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43551","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Largest Solar Farm Is Doing A Lot More Than Generating Energy &#8211; SlashGear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/2063861\/china-largest-solar-farm-desert-ecosystem-study\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/l-intro-1767107140.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:286px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Solar farms are already proving to be an effective addition to traditional power, but now it looks like they may have additional environmental benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/2063861\/china-largest-solar-farm-desert-ecosystem-study\/\">China&#8217;s Largest Solar Farm Is Doing A Lot More Than Generating Energy &#8211; SlashGear<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also has a huge domestic demand for electricity, particularly since it&#8217;s the world&#8217;s largest EV market by a significant margin. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/global-ev-outlook-2025\/trends-in-electric-car-markets-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IEA<\/a>, 17 million EVs were sold worldwide in 2024, and more than 11 million of those were sold in China. Around 10% of all cars on the road in China are electric,&#8230;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study in Nature: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-024-72860-8\">Assessment of the ecological and environmental effects of large-scale photovoltaic development in desert areas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar farms are already proving to be an effective addition to traditional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[150,244,177],"class_list":["post-43551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-china","tag-ev","tag-solar","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43554,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43551\/revisions\/43554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}