South Korea's Largest Solar Power Station In The Recently Completed

According to the South Korean media reports, South Jeolla Province Emmanuel built in the county of South Korea's largest solar power station will soon be completed and will soon be officially put into operation. Emmanuel said the Department of Atomic Energy, an area of 64,000 square meters, installed capacity of 3,000 kilowatts of solar-power stations, "Emmanuel solar energy park" completion ceremony will be held on the 18th of this month.

The power station was started in November 2006, 23.3 billion won investment, into a one works (1250 kilowatts) and two works (1750 kilowatts) to build. Installed a total of 10,000 fixed-1.5048 collector panels, each generating 0.2 kilowatts can block, the largest supply of 1,500 can be used by the family of electricity. With a year to replace about 845 tons of oil and 2,123 tons of carbon dioxide emissions to reduce the effect. The industry, Emmanuel region abundant sunshine, sunshine more than the national average of about 10 per cent, while the cyclical sea breeze Chuifu can play so that the effect of solar cooling, therefore, here in the building solar power stations can be said to be exceptional conditions.

Source: 中国经济网 Apr. 25, 2008

Shanghai Developed Nano-Materials Solar Cells

The magic of photosynthesis in plants, is expected to help mankind achieve the dream of clean energy. Recently, this reporter received information from the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, East China Normal University researchers use of nano-materials in the laboratory success of "recycling" chloroplast to achieve extremely low cost of solar energy power generation.

Chloroplast for photosynthesis in plants places, sunlight can be converted into chemical energy. The task force is not in the plant in vitro "copy" of a chloroplast, but the development of a structure similar to the chloroplast and the new battery - Dye-sensitized solar cells, solar energy into trying to power. Nano-earmarked funds in Shanghai, with the support of more than three years after experiments and exploration, this bionic solar photoelectric conversion efficiency of more than 10 percent, nearly 11 percent of the world's highest level.

As a third generation of solar cells, dye-sensitized cells is the biggest attraction of cheap raw materials and simple production process. According to estimates, dye-sensitized cells equivalent to the cost of silicon cells plate 1 / 10. At the same time, even if the sun is not enough room, its photoelectric conversion rate will not be affected significantly.

Source: 新华社 Apr. 18, 2008