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Massive desert solar buildout could worsen water stress in China’s Tarim Basin
Key Takeaways
- Researchers modeled an extreme solar deployment scenario across the Tarim Basin’s Taklamakan Desert.
- They found that very large PV buildouts could alter regional climate dynamics and worsen water stress.
- The basin already depends heavily on glacier and snowmelt-fed water supplies under pressure from retreating ice.
- The study argues that renewable siting at huge scale must account for local environmental feedbacks.
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DT Editorial Team··via pv-magazine.com