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Detailed explanation-1: -Seoul: A $43 billion deal was signed Friday to build what the South Korean government said will be the world’s biggest offshore wind power complex, as it seeks to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

Detailed explanation-2: -China is building the world’s largest wind farm and it could power 13m homes. China is planning the world’s largest wind farm, a facility so huge it could power the whole of Norway. Chaozhou - a city in China’s Guangdong province - has revealed ambitious plans for a 43.3 gigawatt facility in the Taiwan Strait.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Gansu Wind Farm in China is the largest wind farm in the world, with a target capacity of 20, 000 MW by 2020. The Shepherds Flat Wind Farm is an 845 megawatt (MW) wind farm in the U.S. state of Oregon.

Detailed explanation-4: -President Moon Jae-in-led, South Korea Government has approved a plan to build the world’s largest wind power plant in the country by 2030.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ørsted. Ørsted is the largest offshore wind developer to date and will remain so in the short to medium term. Since the mid-1990s, Ørsted - then Dong Energy - has developed more than 5GW of net operating capacity, according to Windpower Intelligence.