Howard Chapman, Buildingtalk Editor looks at the current claims to be the biggest renewable energy projects of their type in the world.
These include floating solar PV, wind turbines, offshore wind farm, hydroelectric power plant, tidal power plant projects, and land based solar farm.
Yamakura Dam reservoir, Ichihara City, Japan
Japanese Kyocera has started construction on a floating solar photovoltaic power plant on the Yamakura Dam reservoir at Ichihara City in Chiba Prefecture.
Designed by American energy technologies company AMSC
London Array Offshore Wind Farm in the Thames Estuary, United Kingdom
China is the world’s largest producer of hydroelectricity, operates two of the 10 biggest hydroelectric power plants in the world, including the world’s largest Three Gorges project, completed in 2012.
Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station, South Korea
Topaz Solar Farm, photovoltaic power station in San Luis Obispo County, California
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