solar power plant Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 27 May 2016 05:25:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Miraah Project, The World’s Biggest Solar Plant Built for the Oil Industry https://www.greenoptimistic.com/miraah-project-solar-plant-oil-industry-20160524/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/miraah-project-solar-plant-oil-industry-20160524/#respond Wed, 25 May 2016 04:41:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=59952 Miraah Project, one of the largest solar power plants currently under construction, will be used to power oil extraction. Solar power is being promoted all around us as being cheap and super efficient. Newsfeeds are full of stories that tell us how the price of solar has never been closer to that of fossil fuels. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/miraah-project-solar-plant-oil-industry-20160524/feed/ 0 59952 Castas, Europe’s Largest Solar Plant, Connected to the French Grid https://www.greenoptimistic.com/castas-solar-plent-french-grid-201511/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/castas-solar-plent-french-grid-201511/#respond Fri, 27 Nov 2015 17:56:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=57893 Europe’s largest solar power plant has just been connected to the French national grid, and it is now ready for its official start next week. The huge players in European solar power industry, Germany, Italy and Spain, are quite difficult to compete against when it comes to total energy generation. However, slowly but surely, others are […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/castas-solar-plent-french-grid-201511/feed/ 0 57893 Europe’s Largest Solar Power Plant Under Construction in France https://www.greenoptimistic.com/europes-largest-solar-power-plant-construction-france-20141110/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/europes-largest-solar-power-plant-construction-france-20141110/#respond Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:13:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=50117 New massive solar power plant is about to make France a serious contender for the ever-so-wanted title of ‘Europe’s greatest’ in renewable energy. Constructed and managed by the French-based firm Neoen, the biggest solar power plant is set to begin full operation in one year from now. Over the past few years, the renewable energy sector […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/europes-largest-solar-power-plant-construction-france-20141110/feed/ 0 50117 World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Under Construction in Southern India https://www.greenoptimistic.com/worlds-largest-floating-solar-power-plant-construction-southern-india-20140704/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/worlds-largest-floating-solar-power-plant-construction-southern-india-20140704/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2014 17:56:20 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48356 Over the past few years, the renewable energy sector, and more precisely solar, has received a huge boost. Developments in manufacturing of panels have resulted in a major drop of prices, making it extremely hard for wind-, hydro-, wave- power and all other renewables to keep up. Of course, this has not gone unnoticed by […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/worlds-largest-floating-solar-power-plant-construction-southern-india-20140704/feed/ 2 48356 World’s Largest Solar Power Plant to be Built In India https://www.greenoptimistic.com/worlds-largest-solar-power-plant-constructed-india-20140207/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/worlds-largest-solar-power-plant-constructed-india-20140207/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2014 10:27:38 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=45727 What do Indians do if they are given USD $4.4 billion? They build a solar power plant. And it is not an average one, no no, it is the largest one the world has seen. The project, which will be a joint venture of six large companies, is expected to be completed in a space of […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/worlds-largest-solar-power-plant-constructed-india-20140207/feed/ 0 45727 Europe's Biggest Solar Power Plant to Open in Italy This Year https://www.greenoptimistic.com/rovigo-solar-plant-20100313/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/rovigo-solar-plant-20100313/#respond Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:29:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6965 Europe's largest solar plant (an area as large as 120 football pitches) will go online in Italy later this year. Located in northeastern Italy, in the province of Rovigo, the plant will generate 72 megawatts and will take up 850,000 square metres.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/rovigo-solar-plant-20100313/feed/ 0 6965 France's Largest Photovoltaic Solar Power Plant to be Built In Abandoned NATO Site https://www.greenoptimistic.com/largest-photovoltaic-solar-power-plant-france-20100303/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/largest-photovoltaic-solar-power-plant-france-20100303/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:20:33 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6727 The world's largest photovoltaic solar power plant will be built by the French energy giant EDF. The company hopes to open the plant by 2012, being located at an abandoned NATO air base (415 hectare site in Toul-Rosieres, near the eastern city of Metz).

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/largest-photovoltaic-solar-power-plant-france-20100303/feed/ 1 6727 DeSoto Solar Power Plant Capable of Generating 110MW of Electricity https://www.greenoptimistic.com/desoto-solar-power-plant-capable-of-generating-110mw-of-electricity-20091009/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/desoto-solar-power-plant-capable-of-generating-110mw-of-electricity-20091009/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:21:43 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4701 The company Florida Power & Light has announced that its project called DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Florida, will be finalized soon and should be generating electric energy by the end of this month.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/desoto-solar-power-plant-capable-of-generating-110mw-of-electricity-20091009/feed/ 1 4701 How to use solar energy at night or during rainy days https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-to-use-solar-energy-at-night-or-during-rainy-days-20090222/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-to-use-solar-energy-at-night-or-during-rainy-days-20090222/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:23:38 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=2387 In Granada- Spain, German scientists of Solar Millennium AG, have developed a solar-thermal power plant called Andasol 1. The most interesting thing about this power plant is that it can produce energy even when the sun is not shining: at night, on clouding or even rainy days.

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