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.
