Bragging Rights in Eco-friendly Competitiveness: Solar Energy: Eco20/20

Bragging Rights in Eco-friendly Competitiveness

Depending, it seems, on the time of the month - or perhaps the direction of the wind - the world's largest solar plant is coming soon to Australia or Arizona. Maybe it's going 'walkabout'. Maybe it's looking for Saudi Arabia. Thankfully, the world's largest solar cooking system is firmly planted. It's in India. Anyway, from all across the eco-friendly world, here is a (very small) compendium of solar power brags.

World's Largest Solar Cooking System:

* This is definitely in India. To be exact, it's in Shirdi in the state of Maharashtra; and it can feed up to 20,000 people a day. The system uses solar energy to boil water for the steam used to cook food for pilgrims visiting the shrine of a 19th century saint named Sai Baba. The solar heating system is reputed to save about 100,000kg of cooking gas each year.

World's Largest Solar Power Plant:

There's a demon at work here, and it's in the details.

* In Feb of 2008 It was announced that a 1900 acre, 280 megawatt solar plant was coming to Arizona in 2011. It was to be the world's largest if Congress renewed the clean-energy tax credit. In 2010 a federal loan guarantee for the project was finally announced. Construction has apparently begun on the project near Gila Bend, Arizona, and the claim remains that the Solana power plant will be the largest concentrated solar power plant in the world, including energy storage. But it still doesn't actually exist.

* In May of 2009, the Australian Conservation Foundation said by the year 2011 Australia would have the world's largest solar -thermal- plant. (Meaning it would use solar radiation to power steam turbines). Apparently, this is different from being the absolute largest.

Other World's Largest Solar Stuff:

* In April of 2011, the world's largest solar parking (not power) project was announced for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The 10MW system will cover 4,500 parking spaces at the North Park offices of Saudi Aramco in Dhahran.

* T-Solar Global, a solar panel manufacturer, states that it is producing the world's largest solar photovoltaic modules.

* GE says it in the process of building the world's largest solar panel factory.

* The world's largest solar power -tower- plant is near Seville, in Spain. It boasts fifty-four stories and one-thousand, two-hundred and ninety-one mirrored heliostats.

* The world's largest solar-powered office building is in the Shangdong Province in northwest China. It looks like a sundial and plans to be the site of the 4th World Solar City Congress.

* The World's largest solar-powered boat is called PlanetSolar; and its spokesperson has recently unveiled its plans to travel around the world in 140 days.

Oh, and just in case you were casually wondering about wind power: as of November 2010, the Thanet Offshore Wind Project in the United Kingdom is, at 300MW, the largest offshore wind farm in the world. But the world's largest wind farm (period), exceeding 781MW, is in Texas.

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