{"id":17658,"date":"2025-08-23T04:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/17658\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T04:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:45:24","slug":"china-building-chicago-sized-solar-farm-as-emissions-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/17658\/","title":{"rendered":"China building \u2018Chicago-sized\u2019 solar farm as emissions fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Solar panels covering hills at a site in Anlong County, south-west China. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d696468d-7c4b-40bf-9710-0ead75d7c811.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Solar panels covering hills at a site in Anlong County, south-west China. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p>Ken Moritsugu and Ng Han Guan<\/p>\n<p>Associated PressYesterday at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Chinese government officials last month showed off what they say will be the world\u2019s largest solar farm when it is completed, high on a Tibetan plateau. It will cover 610 sq km, which is about the size of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">China has been installing solar panels far faster than anywhere else in the world, and the investment is starting to pay off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solar panels covering hills at a site in Anlong County, south-west China. Photo: Getty Ken Moritsugu and Ng&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,381,442,18,19,17,1543],"class_list":{"0":"post-17658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}