The
cutest solar farm ever is **w
live on the grid
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Who knew clean energy could be this cute?
China connected a panda-shaped
solar power plant to the
grid last week.*
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The project was built by the aptly-named Panda Green Energy, and has an output of 50MW, e**ugh to power more than 8,000 U.S. households, according to
Inhabitat.
It's located in Datong, a city in the province of Shanxi, **rthern China.
A**ther panda is in the works on the site.
A bird's eye view of the completed project.
Image: Panda Green Energy
Two types of
solar panels — white
thin film photovoltaic (PV) cells and black mo**crystalline silicon PV cells — give the plant the look of China's favourite mo**chromatic animal.
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