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Six builds that
change the math.

Capacity, cost, and status — plus the one honest sentence about what's holding each one back.

Noor Ouarzazate · Morocco · 580 MW solar

The desert that exports daylight

Mirrors focus Saharan sun onto towers of molten salt, storing heat so the plant generates power after dark. A proof that deserts are batteries waiting to be wired.

Bottleneck: moving that power to Europe needs subsea HVDC cables still on drawing boards.
Hornsea · UK North Sea · 2.6+ GW offshore wind

A power station made of weather

Hornsea 1 & 2 are the biggest offshore wind farms on the planet, with Hornsea 3 on the way. Turbines taller than skyscrapers, 120 km from shore.

Bottleneck: landing 2.6 GW ashore requires new onshore transmission — the slowest, most litigated part of the build.
Sun Cable · Australia → Singapore · ~20 GW solar planned

Sunshine as an export commodity

A continent-scale solar farm in the Northern Territory feeding Singapore through a 4,300 km subsea cable — the longest power link ever attempted.

Bottleneck: multi-billion-dollar financing plus approvals across jurisdictions. The cable is the project.
Gansu Wind Farm · China · 10+ GW wind

The wind base

Part of China's "wind power Three Gorges" — a planned 10 GW+ cluster in the Gobi corridor, already among the largest wind installations ever built.

Bottleneck: the wind is far from the cities. Ultra-high-voltage lines are racing to catch up with the turbines.
Kamuthi Solar · India · 648 MW solar

A solar city in Tamil Nadu

2.5 million panels cleaned daily by robots, spanning an area visible from space. Built in about eight months — a masterclass in execution speed.

Bottleneck: India's grid needs storage and interstate lines to absorb solar at this scale without curtailment.
Gemini Solar · Nevada, USA · 690 MW solar + storage

Solar that works the night shift

690 MW of panels paired with one of the largest battery installations in the US — dispatchable clean power for Las Vegas evenings.

Bottleneck: federal permitting on public land added years before a single panel went up. See: permitting.

Status bars reflect construction/commissioning progress as of our last review. We update them quarterly — optimism deserves fresh numbers. Now read what's slowing them down →