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GERMANY - "Waldpolenz" solar park

Laila Briquet-Mosig on June 25, 2007 | 833 Views

What can you do with an abandoned military base?  The town of Brandis, Germany, has found a original solution... build one of the world's biggest solar power parks!

Construction on a 40 megawatt (MW) solar generation power plant is under way.  An area covering around 200 soccer fields will be covered with approximately 550,000 solar panels.  The direct current produced in the solar modules will be converted into alternating current and fed completely into the power grid.

Read more at:
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=47541

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