Many hours of sunshine make the area around Lingwu in China's Ningxia region an ideal location for generating electricity from solar energy. Here, our carbon offset project generates around 54,000 MWh of electricity annually, which is fed into the local power grid. As China's electricity mix is still heavily dominated by fossil fuel generation despite the expansion of the renewable energy sector, our project makes a valuable contribution to climate action. Approximately 48,400 tonnes of CO₂ are saved annually, as the electricity produced would otherwise have been generated with the help of fossil power plants. Thus, the solar project contributes to increasing the share of renewable energies in China's electricity mix, it improves the national energy supply and also creates local employment opportunities.