The station would capture the Sun's energy that never makes it all the way down to Earth. The energy would be converted into microwaves or lasers and be beamed back Earth to be used for our consumption.
Chernobyl is producing power again. A modest one-megawatt plant, located just a hundred yards from the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant, was launched last Friday by Ukranian authorities.
A project planned for super sunny South Australia will be the world's largest single solar thermal tower power plant when it's completed in 2020.
A solar 4.5 gigawatt project plant in Tunisia could provide carbon-free electricity to over five million European homes or over seven million electric vehicles.
Singaporean solar firm Sunseap is building a 10 megawatt MW solar power plant in Cambodia.
The Kauai project consists of a 52 megawatt-hour battery installation plus a 13 megawatt SolarCity solar farm. Tesla and the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative believe the project will reduce fossil fuel usage by 1.6 million gallons per year.
The Ashalim project, which is being constructed in the Negev desert, will have four different plots, three of which are being built in the first phase. The solar tower is the centerpiece at 250 meters high.
Things are heating up in India, where one of the world’s top polluting countries has unveiled the world’s largest solar power plant.
Morocco now has a very 21st century landmark: the world’s largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant. With 500,000 parabolic mirrors, the plant — Noor 1 has a generating capacity of 160 megawatts.
The plant has a capacity of 648 megawatts and an ambitions to becoming one of the leading green energy producers in the world.
They like to do things big in Dubai, including a newly-approved concentrated solar power project that will generate 1,000 megawatts of power by 2020 and a whopping 5,000 megawatts by 2030.
THE WORLD’S largest solar power plant installed on the rooftop of a shopping mall has been switched on by a property developer in its sprawling shopping hub in San Fernando, Pampanga.
In a joint venture, Kyocera Corporation and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation announced today that Kyocera TCL Solar LLC has started construction of the world's largest*1 13.7 megawatt (MW) floating solar power plant on the Yamakura Dam reservoir, managed by the Public Enterprises Agency of Chiba Prefecture in Japan for industrial water services.
Construction for the first phase of Morocco's Noor 1 power plant is nearing completion. Once complete in 2020, the solar farm will be the largest of its kind in the world. But even now, the plant's half-million solar mirrors are already visible from space.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has signed up Al-Afandi Solar to build the biggest Middle East manufacturing facility for silicon panels and solar cells.
