China Connects One of World’s Biggest Solar Projects to the Grid

China has connected one of the world’s largest solar power projects by capacity to the grid as the country continues to boost renewable energy installations. The Ruoqiang PV project is a giant 4-gigawatt (GW) solar project in the southeastern part of the Taklamakan Desert, developed and operated by China Green Electricity Investment. The project was connected to the grid this week, Chinese media report. The capacity of Ruoqiang PV is so massive that it is equal to the entire installed solar capacity in Canada, according to data from BloombergNEF…