First Solar: Here the company installs a 2 megawatt solar plant in California. Up next, one that's one thousand times the wattage, in China. First SolarFrom Popular Science:
First Solar just signed an agreement with China to build the biggest solar power plant yet, according to a statement released today by the company. The 2-gigawatt plant in the Mongolian desert will generate enough electricity to power three million homes.
That's a heck of a lot of cadmium telluride, the semiconductor they use for their thin film cells.
The largest solar plant currently in operation is a mere 60-megawatt plant in Spain, according to pvresources.com.
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