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On 29 June 2017, Panda Green Energy Group Limited announced that its first panda bear-shaped solar power facility was officially connected to the grid in Datong Shanxi: Several web sites started to aggregate this news; many included an image that was purportedly a photograph of the solar farm. Some outlets, such as the Telegraph, mentioned — correctly — that the image is an artist's rendering, but many others outlets shared it as a photograph with no caption: This is not a photograph, but an artist's rendering that has been around since at least June 2016, months before construction even started on this plant in November of the same year. Although we have not identified the specific artist who created this concept, it was created in conjunction with a United Nations Development Program project promote sustainability: A similar design sketch showing a conceptual rendering of a panda solar plant in Fiji was also released by the Panda Green company: A spokesperson for UNDP China confirmed that the viral image was an artist's rendering and sent us an image captured by a drone showing the real solar panda farm:
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