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Friday, May 18, 2007
PowerLight brings solar power to Korea
May 18 2007 10:35AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (7) |
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Don’t know if anyone caught it, but SunPower’s PowerLight subsidiary completed construction of Mungyeong SP Solar Mountain, a 2.2-megawatt solar electric power plant in Mungyeong, Korea – comprised of 10,500 panels and covering an area of approximately 43,000 square meters.
Pretty cool, I think.
SP Energy, Korea's largest private solar plant operator, owns the plant and is selling the electricity it generates to the Korea Power Exchange.
The company also said that Mungyeong SP Solar Mountain is the second major solar power plant designed and deployed by PowerLight in Korea in recent months. In November 2006, a one-megawatt project in Gwangju, Korea, was officially dedicated.
In other solar power activities this week, EMCORE Corp. said its photovoltaic division has attained a solar conversion efficiency of 31 percent for a new class of advanced multi-junction solar cells optimized for space applications, and that it has reached 37 percent peak conversion efficiency on its terrestrial concentrating solar cell products currently in volume production.
Also, Valere Power was awarded a small business innovation research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration to develop what it says is a management system that will “dramatically” improve the efficiency of solar power systems for better power extraction.
As always, comments welcome and appreciated. --Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor
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at 5/18/2007 12:33:43 PM, wjf123 said:
Are there any U.S. solar generation projects under way? Bill Fortin IBS INC wfortin@ibsbiz.com
at 5/25/2007 10:41:43 AM, aifilaw said:
What a tremendous waste of money, due to the costs of electricity here in the US. In order to break even on the production and functional maintainance of that plant it would require about 30 years of operation before costs were recouped. Solar power is inefficient, we should be focusing on expanding our nuclear power program, with the new safety measures in place it narrows the chances of a disaster from 1 in 1 billion to 1 in 100 trillion. And its the cheapest long term and environmentally friendly application of power production.
at 6/1/2007 11:55:57 PM, dj said:
aifilaw - that is ridiculous! How is the toxic waste that is produced from Nuclear power environmentally friendly?!
at 6/4/2007 3:59:03 PM, RTJD said:
I would have to agree with aiflaw on this one. Even at 100% efficiency, solar power can only generate ~76 Watts per square foot in strong sunlight and zero Watts when the sun is down. This is some useful power for some applications but not for running a city or even a single home. Put the solar panels in space where the energy is around 10 horsepower per square foot then find a new way to beam the energy back to earth.
at 6/5/2007 12:45:18 PM, Jah said:
Although solar panels are getting more efficient... Nuclear power generates nasty & costly waste issues. It seems that there is not one clear winner for the world's energy appetite. jeff@ www.neptunerecall.com
at 6/17/2007 4:09:05 PM, msvy said:
That's what solar is up against--people like aifilaw who think that nuclear is environmentally friendly, who do not care about building for the long term future or about the health of the planet, and who likely vote by their wallets.
at 7/12/2007 3:10:38 PM, EV stinger said:
Anyone who still thinks Nuclear Power is excessively dangerous, must still think we are living with 70's, complete with analog control technologies, which by the, way were able to stop 3Mile Island without and loss of life, although the reactor fuel did melt when the coolant was drained away. Every Year we see people die in coal mining accidents. Many more than Nuke Power in America ever harmed. With the current pace of battery technology we will soon have the option to buy cars using lithium-phospate batteries as the primary source of power, which we recharge from our 2nd Gen Nukes, (or wind farms) emmiting no green house gasses... by the time my kids get old they will likely want all that nuclear "waste" out of Yucca Mountain as a new energy source that currently we cannot concieve of. Nicola Tesla put an A/C motor in a car without batteries an was able to transmitt enough power for it to achieve speeds of 90 MPH!!! Somehow he harnessed the earth's magnetic fields to do it. He was too bitter and selfish a man to share all that a/c technology with us, and no on else has figure out how he did it; but it's true. When someon does, it's likely the entire power industry will fade into history, Nukes and all.
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