Portugal plans to build world's biggest solar power station

 2005/09/14: ClimateArk: Portugal plans to build world's biggest solar power
station

Portugal, one of the most oil-dependent nations in Europe, will begin work
on the world's biggest solar energy power station next year, officials said
yesterday.

The plant will have 350,000 solar panels spread over 114 hectares near the
southern
town of Moura and will be able to produce 62 megawatts, more than six times the
power produced by the largest existing solar power station in Germany.

"The construction of the station will begin in 2006, it is irreversible," Moura
Mayor Jose
Maria Pos-de-Mina was quoted as saying by the Lusa news agency.

The plant is expected to be completed in 2009 and will have a total cost of 250
million
euros ($515.2 million).
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H. E. Taylor wrote:

station

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       http://greenwatts.com/pages/SolarStats/SolarDescr.html

 

250 milions euros are 512 milions $?
Anyway 250  milions euro are too muche for a solar about 70 MWe

 
No, about $307M USD.  Google really is your friend.


Just over $4/watt installed, what's awful about that?

 
<William P. N. Smith> ha scritto nel messaggio

It's too much if the capacity factor is no more than 20% (like any solar
plant)