Today we have some news about solar energy. If you don't know, what the solar energy is and how it works, you can read about it here:
How solar energy works.
First of all, as
International Business Times says, Amazon will build Virginia's largest solar farm to clean up its energy guzzling data centers. Amazon.com Inc.finance this solar station, which will costs about $150 million. Company want to use it as 100 percent renewable energy sources at its global cloud computing operations. According to last Amazon's announcement, the station will be 80-megawatt and it will be the latest in a string of clean energy investments made by giant U.S. technology companies in recent months. Amazon Solar Farm US East could come online as early as 2016 and will be
the largest solar installation in Virginia. The
panels of station will produce enough electricity to light up the equivalent of
15,000 U.S. homes each year.
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Photovoltaic panels near the Amazon.de distribution center in Bad Hersfeld, Germany, on Sept. 22, 2014.
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Second news is about Africa's solar energy. ("Dude, Africa is the continent of the sun, what new about Africa's sun you can tell us?") A Dubai-based company, Access Infra Africa, will launch the largest Africa's privately-owned solar plant in Uganda this year,
ArabNews says. $500 million will be spent by company to build in the next three years on power generation plants in 17 countries, including in Egypt,
Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique, Reda El-Chaar, executive
chairman of Access Power MEA, the majority owner of Access Infra Africa,
said on Tuesday.
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| Aerial view of one of Phelan Energy Group's solar developments in South Africa, 'De Aar solar farm'. Photo: The New Economy |
Next portion of solar energy went, or, better to say, swam to us from Japan. Japan company Kyocera Corp. launches world’s biggest floating solar power station,
The Japan Times says. It started on Thursday; a 2.3-megawatt facility in western Japan will help
utilities improve the efficiency of solar-produced electricity. The station has 333 meters in length and 77 meters in width, or
around 25,000 sq. meters. It produces around 2,680 megawatt-hours of
electricity per year, can provide demand of 820 households, Kyocera
said.
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| Kyocera's 'mega-solar' station uses 9,072 waterproof solar panels. Photo: The Japan Times |
That's all for today. Don't forget to visit my blog between times, where you can check a lot of interesting information.
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