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China's Gansu turns desert into green power hub

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16 August 2026

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Fusion42 · 16 August 2026 · Fusion42 review

Gansu Province in China is transforming the Tengger Desert into a major green power hub with the construction of the country's largest single-site photovoltaic facility, surpassing 80 million kilowatts of renewable capacity and exporting green electricity eastward via a high-voltage grid.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Clean Energy.

◆ ◆ The Wire takeaway

Green power generation is moving into desert areas with world-scale scale-up in China; if you build clean energy tech, Gansu’s grid expansion opens new demand and logistics routes this year.

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