Locating the suitable large-scale solar farms in China''s deserts
Additionally, China aims to surpass the total installation capacity of wind and solar power by 1.2 billion kilowatts (Xinhua News Agency, 2020). The vast expanses of the northern and western Chinese deserts, along with an abundance of solar energy resources and an average annual sunshine duration of >3200 h (see Fig. 1 a ), present an opportunity for the