page_title: Solar power plant
hierarchical_section_title: Solar power plant
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Solaranlage als Lärmschutz auf ca. 1,2 km Länge entlang der A92 bei Freising English: The worlds largest PV sound barrier with a capacity of 500 kWp was installed at Freising in Germany, next to the Munich airport and is operational since September 2003. 338 kWp of the installed PV capacity was realized with ceramic based PV modules manufactured by ISOFOTON in a pilot production. The project was co-funded by the EC DG-TREN in the framework of the “PV Soundless” project.
context_page_description: A solar power plant is based on the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics, or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Concentrated solar power systems use lenses, mirrors, and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. Photovoltaics converts light into electric current using the photoelectric effect. The largest photovoltaic power plant in the world was the 354 MW Solar Energy Generating Systems CSP installation located in the Mojave Desert, California. Other large CSP plants include the 250 MW Agua Caliente Solar Project in Arizona, the Solnova Solar Power Station, and the Andasol solar power station, both in Spain.
  Concentrated solar power plants first appeared in the 1980s. Solar power is increasingly used.
context_section_description: A solar power plant is based on the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CSP). Concentrated solar power systems use lenses, mirrors, and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. Photovoltaics converts light into electric current using the photoelectric effect. The largest photovoltaic power plant in the world was the 354 MW Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) CSP installation located in the Mojave Desert, California.  Other large CSP plants include the 250 MW Agua Caliente Solar Project in Arizona, the Solnova Solar Power Station (150 MW, 250 MW when finished), and the Andasol solar power station (150 MW), both in Spain.
  Concentrated solar power plants first appeared in the 1980s. Solar power is increasingly used.
caption: Solar energy absorbing panels on the sound barrier next to the Munich airport.
exif: {}