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The power station, China's first large-scale grid-parity solar power project, provides affordable, clean energy to thousands of households, marking a new era of grid-parity for the domestic solar industry. The Golmud Solar Project can power 630,000 urban and rural households.
Golmud CPV Solar Park is a 138 MW p (~110 MW AC) concentrator photovoltaics power station located near Golmud City in Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China. It is the largest operating CPV facility in the world, and was constructed in two phases by Suncore Photovoltaics starting in 2012.
The park includes the 270 acre 57.96 MW p Golmud 1 unit located 7 km south of the airport, and the 370 acre 79.83 MW p Golmud 2 unit located about 27 km east. Golmud 1 consists of 2300 dual-axis Suncore CPV-Gen3.5 solar tracking systems divided into 100 sections. Golmud 2 consists of 3168 systems divided into 120 sections.