Shell To Build World's Largest Solar Power Plant

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FRANKFURT - Royal Dutch/Shell Group announced Tuesday that it will build the world’s biggest solar energy plant near the city of Leipzig in eastern Germany.

The $27 million plant is to meet the power demand of around 1,800 households and will be created in cooperation with German project developer Geosol and industrial partners such as Siemens, the company’s solar unit Shell Solar said.

“We will start building at the end of March or the start of April and plan to connect it to the electricity network in July,” said a spokesman.

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In Germany, an estimated 400 MW of solar power capacity had been installed by the end of 2003, but the share of solar energy in national power production was still less than one percent, Europe’s largest solar industry association UVS said late last year."

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[NNadir]

1. Well you gotta start somewhere.

[Longhorn79]

2. New Solar Efficiency

A couple issues ago in 'Nature', a material with a crystal lattice of just the right dimensions was found which could double the efficiency of the energy conversion. Could be a big thing.