Desert has become the hot development zone of large-scale wind and PV farms. According to China’s Renewable Energy Development Plan, the total installed capacity of wind and solar power farms in desert will reach 200 GW in 2025 and 455 GW in 2030 (National Development and Reform Commission and National Energy Administration, 2021).
In desert, a composite system of PV plus agriculture and animal husbandry is possible to construct by manually installing sand fences and sand barriers, tying grass grids to the surface, and sowing and breeding in PV farm (Semeraro et al., 2022).
As renewable energy development is accelerating globally, more and more PV power stations are built in desert areas to meet the growing demand for sustainable energy (Kruitwagen et al., 2021; Li et al., 2018).
In recent years, the Chinese government has carried out a series of Photovoltaic Desert Control Projects, aiming to combine the efforts to develop the solar PV sector with measures to control desertification (CGTN, 2017; The state council of the P.R.C., 2019; Cui et al., 2017).
This approach enables the simultaneous development of ecology and economy, achieving a synergy effect between environmental and economic benefits. All of these suggest that vegetation construction in desert PV plants has a promising future.
Compared to 2010, the greening area reached 30.80 km 2 after PV projects. Opportunity to combat desertification and improve people's welfare in desert areas. Solar energy is considered one of the key solutions to the growing demand for energy and to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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China builds vast solar, wind power parks in deserts
A mega solar and wind power base under construction in China''s seventh-largest desert Kubuqi in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is set to become the world''s largest power generation base of its kind.
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