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10 November - The world's largest solar park, covering a total area of 25 hectares, is to be built in Bavaria using a technical innovation that returns a more efficient yield.
Made up of 57 600 solar panels, the 10 MW voltaic system built by US corporation PowerLight, will convert sunlight directly into electricity at three locations in Germany: Mühlhausen, Günching and Minihof.
Powerlight Corp. will use a technical innovation known as Power Tracker, which permits the solar panels to automatically follow the travel of the sun. This technology is said to return a more efficient yield than panels that are installed at a fixed angle of inclination.
The Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution Group (PTD) has received an order from PowerLight Corp. to provide all the electrical equipment for the Bavaria Solarpark photovoltaic plant. The order is worth €4m ($5m) and includes the delivery of transformers, switchgear, inverters, cabling and terminations.
The Bavaria Solarpark is scheduled to commence operation over the 25 hectares in 2005 and over the next twenty years it is to produce more than 215m kW hours of environmentally friendly power, thereby becoming the largest solar plant in the world.
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