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Giant solar energy plants to run 100,000 homes

The two giant new solar power plants slated for Moree in western NSW and Chinchilla in Queensland will mark the first time solar power in Australia is deployed on a scale large and reliable enough to rival coal as a source of ''baseload'' energy.
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World's Largest Solar Project Planned for Saharan Desert
If just 0.3% of the Saharan Desert was used for a concentrating solar plant, it would produce enough power to provide all of Europe with clean renewable energy. That is why 20 blue chip German companies are gathering together next month to discuss plans and investments to create such a massive project.

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Avanzalia Solar, a Spanish company,, has launched the world's largest solar power plant in Salamanca.
The Planta Solar de Salamanca facility, consists of 70,000 solar modules spread on a 36 hectare site. It produces 13.8 MW of energy, enough to meet the needs of 5,000 houses, but the company plans to gradually increase the output to 25 MW.
The plant breaks the record of a power plant in Bavaria, Germany, with a capacity of 12 MW. It will help save 3,800 metric tons (27,930 bbl) of oil a year and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 6,100 metric tons.

"It is evident that, together with wind power, the sun is the only alternative source of energy that will allow Spain to reduce its dependence on the import of oil" - Carlos Galdon, the company's president.

The project was carried out in conjunction with Kyocera Corporation, a leading Japanese producer of solar modules.

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SunTechnics to Build the Third Largest Solar Farm on the US West Coast at SSJID
South San Joaquin Irrigation District (SSIJD) and SunTechnics Energy Systems Inc. have signed a contract to install one of the largest solar systems in the United States.
The renewable energy turnkey provider will engineer, procure and construct a 1.9 MW single-axis solar tracking system to provide electricity to the state-of-the-art DeGroot Water treatment Plant. The $12.5 million installation consists of 11,040 solar modules that will produce 3.7 million kilowatt hours of electricity output annually, enough to power 550 homes, and offsetting 4,106,216 lbs of carbon dioxide per year. The solar array will start generating clean renewable power beginning in 2008.

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Australia has announced plans to build the world's biggest solar power station as part of a radical rethink on climate change.
The government on Wednesday said that it would contribute A$75 million towards the cost of the photovoltaic solar power plant.
The 154 megawatt power station will cost a total of A$420m ($318m) and will be built by Melbourne-based Solar Systems.
It is the first of a series of projects aimed at reducing the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.
The move comes as the government, which like the US has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, tries to contain the political impact of the worst drought in living memory.

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