The world’s largest offshore solar farm is being connected to the grid. The 3,000-acre installation, situated five miles off the coast of China’s Shandong province can, when operating at full capacity, generate a gigawatt of electricity — enough to power about a million homes.

China has launched the world's largest offshore solar farm, a 1-gigawatt project that sets a new standard for renewable energy.

China’s CHN Energy has connected the first solar units from its 1-gigawatt (GW) offshore solar farm – the world’s first and largest of its kind – to the grid. The massive project is located off the coast of Dongying City in Shandong Province, eastern China.

China started generating power from its first gigawatt-level offshore solar project in the eastern province of Shandong.

The world’s largest offshore solar farm is being connected to the grid. The 3,000-acre installation, five miles off the coast of northeastern China’s Shandong province, is fixed to the seabed and, when operating at full capacity, can generate a gigawatt of electricity, enough to power about a million homes.