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The following page lists photovoltaic power stations that are larger than 25 MW

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in current net capacity. Solar photovoltaic cells convert sunlight into electricity and many solar photovoltaic power station

Photovoltaic power station

The following page lists photovoltaic power stations that are larger than 25 MW in current net capacity. Solar photovoltaic cells convert sunlight into electricity and many solar photovoltaic power stations have been built, mainly in Europe...

s have been built, mainly in Europe. As of October 2011, the largest photovoltaic (PV) power plants in the world are the Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant

Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant

Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant near Sarnia, Ontario in Canada, is as of September 2010 the world's largest photovoltaic plant with 80 MWp....

(Canada, 97 MW), Montalto di Castro Photovoltaic Power Station (Italy, 84.2 MW), Finsterwalde Solar Park

Finsterwalde Solar Park

The Finsterwalde Solar Park is as of November 2010 the world’s largest photovoltaic plant with 80.7 MWp. The project is located in Finsterwalde, Germany and developed by Q-Cells International and LDK Solar. It is equipped with Q-Cells modules and LDK solar wafers. The first phase of the project...

(Germany, 80.7 MW), Ohotnikovo Solar Park (Ukraine, 80 MW), Lieberose Photovoltaic Park

Lieberose Photovoltaic Park

The Lieberose Photovoltaic Park is a 52.79 megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant in Lieberose, Brandenburg, Germany. The solar park with 700,000 solar panels which went fully on line in October 2009, is the world's third-largest, and will supply electricity for 15,000 households a year while...

(Germany, 71.8 MW), Rovigo Photovoltaic Power Plant

Rovigo Photovoltaic Power Plant

The Rovigo Photovoltaic Power Plant is a 70 MW solar photovoltaic plant in Northeast Italy. Construction of the plant was started in March 2010 and was completed in November 2010. When completed, it was the largest single-operating PV plant in Europe....

(Italy, 70 MW), Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park

Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park

The Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park is a large photovoltaic power plant in Olmedilla de Alarcón, Spain. When completed in July 2008, it was the world's largest photovoltaic power plant. The plant uses more than 270,000 solar photovoltaic panels to generate 60 megawatts...

(Spain, 60 MW), and the Strasskirchen Solar Park

Strasskirchen Solar Park

The Strasskirchen Solar Park is the eighth largest photovoltaic power station in the world, with an installed capacity of 54 MW. It was developed by a joint venture of MEMC and Q-Cells in 2009...

(Germany, 54 MW).

There are also many large plants under construction. The Desert Sunlight Project

Desert Sunlight Project

The Desert Sunlight Project is a 550 MW solar power plant under construction, that will use approximately 8.8 million cadmium telluride thin-film solar photovoltaic modules made by First Solar. Project construction will take place in two phases, both of which are supported by power purchase...

is a 550 MW solar power

Solar power

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plant under construction in Riverside County, California

Riverside County, California

Riverside County is a county in the U.S. state of California. One of 58 California counties, it covers in the southern part of the state, and stretches from Orange County to the Colorado River, which forms the state border with Arizona. The county derives its name from the city of Riverside,...

, that will use thin-film solar photovoltaic modules made by First Solar

First Solar

First Solar, Inc. is an American manufacturer of thin film photovoltaic modules, or solar panels, and a provider to PV power plants of supporting services that include finance, construction, maintenance and end-of-life panel recycling...

. The Blythe Solar Power Project

Blythe Solar Power Project

The Blythe Solar Power Project is a solar power station under construction in Riverside County, California. The project is being developed by Solarhybrid/Solar Millennium's subsidiary Solar Trust of America, in a joint venture with Chevron Energy Solutions....

is a 500 MW photovoltaic station under construction in Riverside County, California

Riverside County, California

. The Agua Caliente Solar Project

Agua Caliente Solar Project

The Agua Caliente Solar Project is a 290 megawatt photovoltaic solar generating facility being built in Yuma County, Arizona, that will use thin film solar panels manufactured by First Solar...

is a 290 megawatt photovoltaic solar generating facility being built in Yuma County, Arizona

Yuma County, Arizona

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. The California Valley Solar Ranch

California Valley Solar Ranch

The California Valley Solar Ranch is a 250 megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant, which is being built by SunPower in the Carrizo Plain, northeast of California Valley. Construction on the project began in September 2011, with approximately 350 jobs expected to be created in San Luis...

(CVSR) is a 250 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic power plant, which is being built by SunPower

SunPower

SunPower Corporation designs and manufactures high-efficiency crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, roof tiles and solar panels based on a silicon all-back-contact solar cell invented at Stanford University. SunPower Corporation is publicly traded on the NASDAQ as SPWRA and SPWRB...

in the Carrizo Plain

Carrizo Plain

The Carrizo Plain is a large enclosed plain, approximately 50 miles long and up to 15 miles across, in southeastern San Luis Obispo County, California, about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, California...

, northeast of California Valley

California Valley, California

California Valley is an unincorporated community located in the eastern part of San Luis Obispo County, California, in the northern portion of the Carrizo Plain.Located...

. The 230 MW Antelope Valley Solar Ranch is a First Solar

First Solar

photovoltaic project which is under construction in the Antelope Valley area of the Western Mojave Desert, and due to be completed in 2013.

Many of these plants are integrated with agriculture and some use innovative tracking systems that follow the sun's daily path across the sky to generate more electricity than conventional fixed-mounted systems. There are no fuel costs or emissions during operation of the power stations.

World's largest photovoltaic power stations

**World's largest photovoltaic power stations (20 MW or larger)**
PV power station	Country	Coordinates	Nominal Power (MW_p Watt-peak Watt-peak is a measure of the nominal power of a photovoltaic solar energy device under laboratory illumination conditions. Related units such as kilowatt-peak or kilowatts-peak and megawatt-peak are also used, and in the context of domestic installations kWp is the most common unit encountered... )	Production (Annual GW·h)	Capacity factor Capacity factor The net capacity factor or load factor of a power plant is the ratio of the actual output of a power plant over a period of time and its potential output if it had operated at full nameplate capacity the entire time...	Notes
Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant near Sarnia, Ontario in Canada, is as of September 2010 the world's largest photovoltaic plant with 80 MWp....	Canada Solar power in Canada Canada has plentiful solar energy resources, with the most extensive resources being found in southern Ontario, Quebec and the Prairies. The territories have a smaller potential, and less direct sunlight, because of their higher latitude....	42°56′16"N 82°20′30"W	97		0.17	Constructed 2009-2010
Montalto di Castro Photovoltaic Power Station	Italy Solar power in Italy Italy ranked as the world’s second largest producer of solar power with an installed nameplate capacity of 9.000 MW and 263.594 plants in operation in 18 August 2011....	42°21′53"N 11°35′25"E	84.2			Constructed 2009-2010
Finsterwalde Solar Park Finsterwalde Solar Park The Finsterwalde Solar Park is as of November 2010 the world’s largest photovoltaic plant with 80.7 MWp. The project is located in Finsterwalde, Germany and developed by Q-Cells International and LDK Solar. It is equipped with Q-Cells modules and LDK solar wafers. The first phase of the project...	Germany Solar power in Germany Germany is one of the world's top photovoltaics installers, with a solar PV capacity as of May 2011 of more than 18,000 megawatts .The German solar PV industry installed 7,400 MW from nearly one-quarter million individual systems in 2010, and solar PV provided 12 TWh of electricity in 2010, about...	51°34′07"N 13°44′15"E	80.7			Phase I completed 2009, phase II and III 2010
Ohotnikovo Solar Park	Ukraine	45°14′20"N 33°35′34"E	80			Completed 2011
Solarpark Senftenberg	Germany	51°33′33"N 13°59′21"E	78			Phase II and III completed 2011
Lieberose Photovoltaic Park Lieberose Photovoltaic Park The Lieberose Photovoltaic Park is a 52.79 megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant in Lieberose, Brandenburg, Germany. The solar park with 700,000 solar panels which went fully on line in October 2009, is the world's third-largest, and will supply electricity for 15,000 households a year while...	Germany	51°55′55"N 14°24′26"E	71.8
San Bellino Photovoltaic Power Plant	Italy	45°02′9"N 11°34′20"E	70			Completed November 2010
Le Gabardan Solar Park	France	44°02′39"N 00°01′41"W	67.2			Completed in 2010 and 2011
Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park The Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park is a large photovoltaic power plant in Olmedilla de Alarcón, Spain. When completed in July 2008, it was the world's largest photovoltaic power plant. The plant uses more than 270,000 solar photovoltaic panels to generate 60 megawatts...	Spain Solar power in Spain Spain is one of the most advanced countries in the development of solar energy, since it is one of the countries of Europe with more hours of sunshine. The Spanish government committed to achieving a target of 12 percent of primary energy from renewable energy by 2010 with an installed solar...	39°37′43"N 02°04′37"W	60	85	0.16	Completed September 2008
Perovo Solar Park	Ukraine		60			Phase III completed 2011
Strasskirchen Solar Park Strasskirchen Solar Park The Strasskirchen Solar Park is the eighth largest photovoltaic power station in the world, with an installed capacity of 54 MW. It was developed by a joint venture of MEMC and Q-Cells in 2009...	Germany	48°48′58"N 12°43′53"E	54	57	0.12
Tutow Solar Park	Germany		52			Completed in 2009-2011
Serenissima Solar Park	Italy		48			Completed in 2011
Copper Mountain Solar Facility Copper Mountain Solar Facility The Copper Mountain Solar Facility is a 48 megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant in Boulder City, Nevada. Sempra Generation announced on December 1, 2010 that it had finished the project and the facility was generating electricity...	USA Solar power in the United States Solar power in the United States is an area of considerable activity and there are many utility-scale solar power plants. The largest solar power installation in the world is the Solar Energy Generating Systems facility in California, which has a total capacity of 354 megawatts...	35°47′N 114°59.5′W	48	100	0.24	Partially completed in December 2010
Puertollano Photovoltaic Park Puertollano Photovoltaic Park The Puertollano Photovoltaic Park is the fourth largest photovoltaic power station in the world, with a nominal capacity of 47.6 MW. The facility is located in Puertollano, Spain. 476 individual plants with a nominal power of 100 kWp, Suntech and Solaria modules. . Fixed structure oriented at...	Spain	38°40′30"N 04°09′05"W	47.6			231,653 crystalline silicon modules, Suntech and Solaria, opened 2008
Moura photovoltaic power station Moura photovoltaic power station The Moura Photovoltaic Power Station is a large photovoltaic power station in Amareleja, in the municipality of Moura, Portugal. It is one of the largest power stations of its kind, and is built in one of the sunniest regions in Europe...	Portugal Solar power in Portugal A large photovoltaic power project, the Serpa solar power plant, has been completed in Portugal, in one of the Europe's sunniest areas. The 11 megawatt plant covers and comprises 52,000 PV panels. The panels are raised 2 metres off the ground and the area will remain productive grazing land...	38°11′20"N 07°12′08"W	46	93	0.23	Completed December 2008
Kothen Solar Park Köthen Solar Park The Köthen Solar Park is a photovoltaic power station in Köthen, Germany. It has a capacity of 45 MWp and an annual output of 42 GWh. The solar park is developed and built by RGE Energy.....	Germany	51°43′32"N 11°58′23"E	45
Avenal Solar Facility	USA		45			Completed 2011
Cellino San Marco Solar Park	Italy		42.7			Completed 2010
Waldpolenz Solar Park Waldpolenz Solar Park Waldpolenz Solar Park, which is the world’s largest thin-film photovoltaic power system, was built by German developer and operator Juwi at a former military air base to the east of Leipzig in Germany. The power plant is a 40 MW solar power system using state-of-the-art thin film technology, and...	Germany	51°19′N 12°39′E	40	40	0.11	550,000 First Solar First Solar First Solar, Inc. is an American manufacturer of thin film photovoltaic modules, or solar panels, and a provider to PV power plants of supporting services that include finance, construction, maintenance and end-of-life panel recycling... thin-film CdTe modules. Completed December 2008
Ralsko Solar Park Ra 1	Czech Republic		38.3			Completed December 2010
Reckahn Solar Park	Germany		38			Completed 2011
Alfonsine Solar Park	Italy		36.2			Completed 2010
Vepřek Solar Park Vepřek Solar Park The Vepřek Solar Park is the second largest photovoltaic power plant in the Czech Republic while also being the 15th largest photovoltaic power plant in the world...	Czech Republic	50°18′54"N 14°19′17"E	35.1			186,960 modules, completed September 2010
Sant'Alberto Solar Park	Italy		34.6			Completed 2010
Planta Solar La Magascona & La Magasquila Planta Solar La Magascona & La Magasquila The Planta Solar La Magascona and La Magasquila is a photovoltaic power station located at La Magascona, Trujillo in Cáceres, Spain. It covers and it has a peak output of 23.04 MW. The power station produces approximately 46 GWh of electricity per year. It was commissioned in July 2007....	Spain		34.5
Ernsthof Solar Park	Germany		34.4			Completed 2010
Arnedo Solar Plant Arnedo Solar Plant The Arnedo Solar Plant is a solar photovoltaic power plant located in Arnedo, La Rioja, Spain. The power system installations are supplied and the solar plant is operated by T-Solar. The plant was built by Isolux Corsán in 2008. It cost €181 million....	Spain	42°16′10"N 1°41′36"W	34			Completed October 2008
Parc Solaire Curbans	USA		33			Completed in 2011
Planta Solar Dulcinea	Spain		31.8			Completed 2009
Gunthawad solar farm	India		30			Asia's largest solar power farm
Cimarron Solar Farm	USA		30			Completed in 2010
Merida/Don Alvaro Solar Park	Spain		30			Completed September 2008
Planta Solar Ose de la Vega	Spain		30
Ševětín Solar Park	Czech Republic		29.9			Completed December 2010
Solarpark Heideblick	Germany		27.5			Completed 2011
Solarpark Eiche	Germany		26.4			Completed 2011
Planta Solar Fuente Alamo Planta solar Fuente Álamo Planta Solar Fuente Álamo is a photovoltaic power station in Fuente-Álamo, Murcia in Spain. It covers an area of . The power station has a capacity of 26 megawatts and its annual output is 44 GWh, equivalent to supply electricity to 13,000 households.The project was developed and...	Spain		26	44	0.193
Lauingen Solar Park	Germany		25.7			Completed in 2010
DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center The DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center is a photovoltaic solar power facility in Arcadia, DeSoto County, Florida owned by Florida Power & Light .President Barack Obama attended the plant's commissioning on October 27, 2009...	USA	27°19′N 81°48′W	25	42	0.19	Completed October 2009

For comparison, the largest non-photovoltaic solar plant, the solar thermal SEGS

Solar Energy Generating Systems

Solar Energy Generating Systems is the largest solar energy generating facility in the world. It consists of nine solar power plants in California's Mojave Desert, where insolation is among the best available in the United States...

in California has an installed capacity of 354 MW. The largest nuclear power station

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant

The is a large, modern nuclear power plant on a 4.2-square-kilometer site including land in the towns of Kashiwazaki and Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture, Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan, from where it gets cooling water...

is rated more than 7,900 MW.

Large systems under construction or in planning

**Large systems in planning or under construction**
Name of Plant	Country	Coordinates	DC Peak Power (MW)	GW·h /year	Capacity factor	Scheduled completion date	Notes
Ordos Solar Project	China Solar power in China Solar power in the People's Republic of China is one of the biggest industries in mainland China. China has over 400 photovoltaic companies and produces approximately 23% of the photovoltaic products worldwide. In 2007 China produced 1700 MW of solar panels, nearly half of the world production of...		2,000	3,875~3,875		2019 **	Thin film CdTe from First Solar First Solar First Solar, Inc. is an American manufacturer of thin film photovoltaic modules, or solar panels, and a provider to PV power plants of supporting services that include finance, construction, maintenance and end-of-life panel recycling... , to be completed in 4 stages
Calico Solar Energy Project Calico Solar Energy Project The Calico Solar Energy Project is a proposed 850 MW solar power station to be located in San Bernardino County, California on of Bureau of Land Management land. Probably it will be mixed design of 750 MW photovoltaics and 100 MW of solar thermal....	USA Solar power in the United States Solar power in the United States is an area of considerable activity and there are many utility-scale solar power plants. The largest solar power installation in the world is the Solar Energy Generating Systems facility in California, which has a total capacity of 354 megawatts...		750				Also with 100 MW of solar thermal
Topaz Solar Farm Topaz Solar Farm Topaz Solar Farm is a proposed 550 megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant, to be built by First Solar, Inc. in the Carrizo Plain, northwest of California Valley at a cost of over $1 billion...	USA Solar power in the United States Solar power in the United States is an area of considerable activity and there are many utility-scale solar power plants. The largest solar power installation in the world is the Solar Energy Generating Systems facility in California, which has a total capacity of 354 megawatts...	35°23′N 120°4′W	550	1,066	0.23	2012 **
Desert Sunlight Project Desert Sunlight Project The Desert Sunlight Project is a 550 MW solar power plant under construction, that will use approximately 8.8 million cadmium telluride thin-film solar photovoltaic modules made by First Solar. Project construction will take place in two phases, both of which are supported by power purchase...	USA		550			2015 *	Has received government loan guarantee
Charanka Solar Park Charanka Solar Park Charanka Solar Park, a large thin-film photovoltaic power system, is being built on a 2,000 ha plot of land near Charanka village in Patan district, northern Gujarat. The power station will be a 500-megawatt solar power system using state-of-the-art thin film technology, and should be finished by...	India		500			2014**
Blythe Solar Power Project Blythe Solar Power Project The Blythe Solar Power Project is a solar power station under construction in Riverside County, California. The project is being developed by Solarhybrid/Solar Millennium's subsidiary Solar Trust of America, in a joint venture with Chevron Energy Solutions....	USA	33°39′N 114°43′W	500			*
Amargosa Farm Road Solar Project	USA		500
Panoche Valley Solar Farm Panoche Valley Solar Farm Panoche Valley Solar Farm is a proposed 420 megawatt utility-scale solar photovoltaic power station, which would be built by Solargen Energy in the Panoche Valley of Central California's San Benito County...	USA Solar power in the United States Solar power in the United States is an area of considerable activity and there are many utility-scale solar power plants. The largest solar power installation in the world is the Solar Energy Generating Systems facility in California, which has a total capacity of 354 megawatts...		420	810
Desert Stateline	USA		300	673	0.26	2015 **
Agua Caliente Solar Project Agua Caliente Solar Project The Agua Caliente Solar Project is a 290 megawatt photovoltaic solar generating facility being built in Yuma County, Arizona, that will use thin film solar panels manufactured by First Solar...	USA		290	688	0.27	2014 *	Has received government loan guarantee
Antelope Valley Solar Ranch	USA		230	592		2013 *	Has received government loan guarantee
California Valley Solar Ranch California Valley Solar Ranch The California Valley Solar Ranch is a 250 megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant, which is being built by SunPower in the Carrizo Plain, northeast of California Valley. Construction on the project began in September 2011, with approximately 350 jobs expected to be created in San Luis...	USA	35°20′N 119°55′W	210	550	0.25	2011 *	Has received government loan guarantee
Kozani PV Park	Greece		200			2013 **	Scheduled to begin in late 2011, expected to cover 6.000 acres with a construction duration of 18 months and 600 million Euro cost
Solaren Solaren Solaren, Inc. is a Southern California startup corporation created to utilize solar energy for terrestrial electricity usage. The company has a contract under negotiation with Pacific Gas and Electric Company of California to deliver 200 megawatts of power for at least 15 years., starting in 2016...	USA		200	1,700	0.97	2016 **	space-based
Mallee Solar Park	Australia Solar power in Australia Australia has an estimated 300 MW of installed photovoltaic power , contributing an estimated 0.1 to 0.2% of total electricity production despite the hot and sunny climate that would make it ideal for utilisation...		180			**	Thin film CdTe from First Solar
Mildura Solar concentrator power station	Australia	34°27′59"S 142°11′00"E	154	270	0.20	**	Heliostat concentrator using GaAs cells from Spectrolab
Moree Solar Farm	Australia Solar power in Australia Australia has an estimated 300 MW of installed photovoltaic power , contributing an estimated 0.1 to 0.2% of total electricity production despite the hot and sunny climate that would make it ideal for utilisation...		150			2015**	Multi crystalline solar PV, single-axis tracking
Sakri PV solar energy project Sakri PV solar energy project Sakri Photovoltaic solar energy project is a under construction 150 megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant, to be set up by MAHAGENCO in Shivajinagar in Sakri taluka of Dhule district in Maharashtra, India at cost of around Rs 1987 crore....	India		150			2012*	Has achieved financial closure, 100 MW
Mesquite Solar Mesquite Solar project The Mesquite Solar project is a photovoltaic solar power plant being built in Arlington, Maricopa County, Arizona, owned by Sempra Generation.Phase 1 will have a nameplate capacity of 150 megawatts.... 1	USA	33°20′06"N 112°55′12"W	150	350	0.27	2013 **	Has received government loan guarantee
Toul	France		143			2013 *
Centinela Solar	USA		110	231		2014 **
Arlington Valley Solarr	USA		110	270		2013 **
Imperial Solar Energy Center South	USA		97	204		2014 **	97 - 130 MW
KCRD Solar Farm	USA		80			2012 **
Alpaugh Solar Plant	USA		50	80	0.18	2013 **
Alpine Suntower	USA		66	145	0.25	2012 **
North Star Solar	USA		60	136		2013 **
Lopburi Solar Farm	Thailand		55			2012 *
High Plains Ranch III	USA		40	112		2012 **
Covaci Solar Park Covaci Solar Park Covaci Solar Park, which will be one of the world’s largest thin-film photovoltaic power system, is being built on a 60 ha plot of land to the north of Timişoara in Romania. The power plant will be a 35-megawatt solar power system using state-of-the-art thin film technology, and should be finished...	Romania Solar power in Romania Solar power in Romania had in 2007 an installed capacity of 0.81 MWp. Romania is located in an area with a good solar potential of 210 sunny days per year and with an annual solar energy flux between 1,000 kWh/ m2/year and 1,300 kWh/ m2/year. From this total amount around 600 to 800 kWh/ m2/year is...		35	35		2011
Shigatse Solar Farm	China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...		30			*	First 10 MW phase completed in July 2011

* Under construction; ** Planned

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