Zhaojiabao Solar Power Station

Does PV power station deployment promote desert greening in China?

In general, the desert greening (with a significant increase in vegetation) in China from PV power station deployment is largely promoted by the policy-driven Photovoltaic Desert Control Projects. However, the human activities effects on vegetation are often superimposed on the long-term climate-driven variations.

Does China have a spatial map of PV power stations?

Although some researchers released several PV power station maps, most only met a medium resolution of 30 meters 9, 10. There thus still lacks a national map of China’s PV power stations with a higher spatial resolution (i.e., 10 meters) that could provide a global understanding of PV’s spatial deployment patterns.

Can random forest predict PV power stations of China Parallelly on Gee?

Finally, the trained random forest model is adopted to predict PV power stations of China parallelly on GEE. Technical validation has been carefully performed across China which achieved a satisfactory accuracy over 89%.

Can PV power stations improve the microclimate of plants in arid areas?

Some studies have shown that the deployment of PV power stations will change the regional microclimate, which can help improve the growing environment for plants in arid areas (Jiang et al., 2019; Yue et al., 2021; Wu et al., 2022).