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Yangtze River, China: world's largest hydropower plant, 22.5GW capacity.
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Ranked by objective public data. Data snapshot 2026-09-22.
Rankings are computed from the authoritative public sources listed below, weighted into a single objective index.
Yangtze River, China: world's largest hydropower plant, 22.5GW capacity.
Jinsha River, China: world's second-largest hydropower plant, largest unit capacity.
Qinghai, China: one of world's largest solar parks, model for desert solar governance.
Gansu, China: world's largest onshore wind power base.
UAE: world's largest single solar park, planned 5GW.
Egypt: Africa's largest solar park, 1.65GW capacity.
Morocco: world's largest concentrated solar power complex.
Rajasthan, India: one of world's largest solar parks.
Karnataka, India: 2GW-class solar park.
Dubai, UAE: phased construction of world's largest single plant.
California, USA: one of world's largest tower CSP plants.
North Sea, UK: world's largest offshore wind farm, 2.5GW+.
UK: world's largest offshore wind project, planned 3.6GW.
Dutch North Sea: pioneer of subsidy-free offshore wind.
Thames Estuary, UK: first GW-scale offshore wind farm.
Norway: world's first commercial floating offshore wind.
Kenya: Africa's largest wind farm, 15% of national power.
Kenya: Africa's largest geothermal power cluster.
One of world's largest geothermal plants, combined power and heating.
California, USA: world's largest geothermal field.
Blue Nile, Nile tributary: Africa's largest hydropower project.
Brazil-Paraguay border: once world's largest hydropower plant.
Xingu River, Brazil: world's fourth-largest hydropower plant.
Congo River: Africa's greatest hydropower potential.
Columbia River, USA: America's largest hydropower plant.
Colorado River, USA: 20th-century engineering marvel.
Australia: Southern Hemisphere's largest pumped storage project.
Australia: world's first 100MW-class lithium battery storage, built by Tesla.
Hebei, China: world's first flexible DC grid, serving Winter Olympics green power.
World's first UHV DC line dedicated to clean energy transmission.
Inner Mongolia, China: integrated solar, desert control, and ecological restoration.
Atacama Desert, Chile: Latin America's first CSP plant.
Chile: ultra-large solar cluster in world's best solar resource region.
France's largest solar plant, 300MW capacity.
Spain: Europe's first commercial CSP plant with molten salt storage.
Spain: world's first CSP plant generating 24 hours a day.
Portugal: Europe's largest floating solar plant.
Saudi Arabia: world's largest green hydrogen plant, 4GW electrolyzer plan.
Netherlands: Europe's largest green hydrogen import and production hub.
Denmark: world's first offshore energy island hub plan.
Indonesia, a Southeast Asian tidal energy demonstration
South Korea, home to the world's largest tidal power plant
France, home to the world's first tidal power station, built in 1966
U.S. Midwest, benchmark for large-scale onshore wind deployment
California, U.S., North America's largest onshore wind cluster
Gujarat, India, planned 30 GW wind and solar base, the world's largest
India, a solar park with world-leading solar resources and the fastest capacity growth
One of the Middle East's largest standalone photovoltaic projects
UAE, zero-carbon city and renewable energy showcase
National grid with 98%+ renewable electricity for multiple consecutive years
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