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Detailed explanation-1: -China accounts for more than half of this. In 2021, it installed more offshore wind generation capacity than every other country in the world over the last five years. The global superpower hopes to generate a third of its electricity from renewables by 2025.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jiuquan Wind Power Base, China Jiuquan Wind Power Base is the world’s biggest wind farm, with a planned installed capacity of 20GW. Also known as Gansu Wind Farm, it will feature 7, 000 wind turbines installed across the Jiuquan, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Xinjiang, Jiangsu and Shandong provinces of Gansu, China.

Detailed explanation-3: -China is forecast to have 1200 GW of combined wind and solar capacity by 2030 as part of the government’s pledge to increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 25% by that year.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ørsted is proud to announce that the world’s largest installed windfarm, Hornsea 2, is now fully operational. The 1.3GW offshore wind farm comprises 165 wind turbines, located 89km off the Yorkshire Coast, which will help power over 1.4 million UK homes with low-cost, clean and secure renewable energy.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hornsea 2 is situated in waters roughly 89 kilometers off the coast of Yorkshire, England. According to Danish energy firm Orsted, it has a capacity of more than 1.3 gigawatts.