Largest solar plants in the Gulf, South Asia and South East Asia
4,497 solar records carry a capacity figure: 612.1 GW in total, of which 159.1 GW across 2,735 records is operating. Two lists, because a running plant and an announced one are not the same kind of fact. Every row links to its record and its public source.
Largest operating solar plants
Watch this ranking. One email when a project on it moves stage, is corrected, or a larger one is added.
Largest solar plants under construction or announced
Capacity as announced by the source. A concept-stage figure means a public source names the project and a number, nothing more.
Every solar record as a file
Rows from redistributable sources only, CC BY 4.0, issued to a work email.
Questions about the largest solar plants
What is the largest operating solar plant in the Gulf, South Asia and South East Asia?+
By capacity on record, Shuaibah 2 Solar PV in Saudi Arabia at 2,060 MW. Solandor ranks operating plants by the capacity figure in the public source named on each record, whole project rather than any partner's share, and does not adjust for phased commissioning unless the source records the phases separately.
What is the largest solar plant planned or under construction in the region?+
Ladakh Solar Park in India at 9,000 MW, at development stage. Announced capacity is kept in a separate list from operating capacity here because the two are different kinds of fact: 159.1 GW of the 612.1 GW on record for solar is running.
How is this ranking compiled?+
From 4,497 published solar records that carry a capacity figure, sorted by that figure. Each record names the public dataset it came from and links the page it was taken from. Records without a stated capacity are not ranked; a missing figure is not zero.
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