{"id":176264,"date":"2023-11-18T18:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T00:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/the-worlds-largest-single-site-solar-farm-just-came-online"},"modified":"2023-11-18T18:23:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T00:23:01","slug":"the-worlds-largest-single-site-solar-farm-just-came-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/the-worlds-largest-single-site-solar-farm-just-came-online","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s largest single-site solar farm just came online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-largest-single-site-solar-farm-just-came-online2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates has launched the Al Dhafra solar farm \u2013 now the world\u2019s largest single-site solar farm \u2013 ahead of COP28.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-gigawatt (GW) solar farm is 22 miles (35 km) from Abu Dhabi and features almost 4 million bifacial solar panels. It will power nearly 200,000 homes and eliminate over 2.4 million tonnes of carbon emissions annually.<\/p>\n<p>It created 4,500 jobs during the peak of the construction phase, and the solar panels were installed at an average rate of 10 megawatts (MW) a day during construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates has launched the Al Dhafra solar farm \u2013 now the world\u2019s largest single-site solar farm \u2013 ahead of COP28. The 2-gigawatt (GW) solar farm is 22 miles (35 km) from Abu Dhabi and features almost 4 million bifacial solar panels. It will power nearly 200,000 homes and eliminate over 2.4 million [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}