Thursday 12 January 2012

One of worlds largest Solar Power plants built in Ukraine.

Activ Solar, based in Austria has announced the completion of one of the world's largest solar photovoltaic plants.Named Perovo, the 100-megawatt Solar Power Station has been built in the Ukraine's Crimea.The size of approximately 259 football pitches, Perovo has more than 440,000 crystalline solar PV Modules that can produce as much as 132,500 megawatt-hours (MWh) of clean, renewable electrical energy in one year, which is enough to satisfy the needs of the Ukraine Crimea capital, Simferopol, avoiding more than 105,000 tons of carbon emissions!

On an economic level, the plant has created more than 800 much needed green jobs in the area and is the third successful ground breaking project to be completed by the company in 2011.Their previous project, launched in October was the 80-MW Ohotnikovo Solar Power Station, the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. An an integrated solar PV industry company, Activ, in addition to the production of large scale solar PV projects, has produced silicon products since 1964., producing solar-grade poly silicon ingots, wafers and solar PV cells at its subsidiary PJSC Semiconductor Plant in Zaporozhye, Ukraine.

This is just one example of many similar projects taking off world wide and is very encouraging to read about in view of the current global ecological crisis that we find ourselves in. Hopefully, in time we will see an end to the petro chemical and carbon emitting dinosaurs that are destroying our planet and holding us to ransom with soaring energy prices, especially in view of the recent notification by British Gas that their prices will be going up by 15% very soon. How can we afford this? Why should we let them dictate to us and control our lives? By embracing Solar Power and other forms of alternative energy we can reclaim control and create our own energy, something which the corporate bully boys in the petro chem industry have been trying to stop for the best part of the 20th Century.

Source :- http://www.solardaily.com/reports/Activ_Solar_Completes_100_Plus_MW_Perovo_Solar_PV_Station_999.html



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