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Solar Facility

Facilities that generate electricity from sunlight, whether by photovoltaic panels or concentrating solar collectors, including the Noor Ouarzazate Solar Complex and the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. Belongs here: a facility whose generating technology converts sunlight directly to electricity.

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Comparison
Era of Emergence
1982 1
Physical Basis
Direct Photovoltaic 1
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1. Photovoltaic power station - Wikipedia
  • Photovoltaic power station, History section, Lugo sentence
    The first 1 MWp solar park was built by Arco Solar at Lugo near Hesperia, California, at the end of 1982
  • Photovoltaic power station, lead section, definition sentence
    a large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic power system (PV system) designed for the supply of merchant power
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