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Completed in 2014, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a CSP plant in California’s Mojave Desert that uses about 170,000 mirrors to focus sunlight onto towers, producing steam to generate electricity.

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In the Hunshandake Sandy Land in Inner Mongolia, China, Datang Chifeng Hunshandake Photovoltaic Project uses the "PV + desertification control" approach to transform desert into oasis and sunlight into electricity. Watch the video to see the impressive ecological restoration.

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