French energy massive EDF is constructing the largest photovoltaic solar power plant in the world at a vacant NATO air base and strategies to have it open by 2012
Jean-Marc Dall’Aglio, of EDF’s green energy subsidiary EDF-EN, said the 415-hectare site in Toul-Rosieres, near the eastern city of Metz, would produce 143 megawatts, adequate for a town of 62,000 people.The existing major photovoltaic plant is at Olmedilla in Spain, producing 60 megawatts. Several other larger plants are under construction in the United States and Australia and might beat the French contender.
Toul-Rosieres will quadruple nuclear-dependent France’s photovoltaic power output, but still abscond it far behind sunny Spain and Germany, which generate 1,671 MW and 1,505 MW respectively.
Dall’Aglio mentioned that it was difficult to find sites large sufficient for the huge arrays of solar panels needed to generate a viable amount of power.
He also mentioned that the state had decided to increase the tariff paid to solar energy producers in gloomy regions to encourage investment.
Source: PTI
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