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| Largest PV System in the United States SunEdison will build, own and operate an 8 Megawatt central solar power plant in south central Colorado. The power plant will house two solar technologies, concentrating photovoltaic and advanced flat-plate solar panel units. Both the flat-plate solar panel segment of the plant and the concentrating solar segment will be the largest of their type in the United States. Approximately 1.2 Megawatts will come from concentrating photovoltaic units. The remaining approximately 6.8 megawatts of generation will be advanced flat-plate solar panel units. The plant is expected to be on line by the end of 2007. Producing power through concentrating photovoltaic units is accomplished by concentrating sunlight into a beam of light 500-times greater than normal light. That beam is then focused on a photovoltaic cell that converts the highly concentrated light into electricity at an efficiency greater than non-concentrated cells. The solar electricity is converted from direct current to alternating current then sent to a power substation and fed into the power grid. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |