World Future Energy Summit Features for June 2009

World Future Energy Summit Features Archive

Power stations: can solar power join the big hitters? Power stations: can solar power join the big hitters?

Large conventional and nuclear power stations have traditionally been the ‘big hitters’ of electrical power generation, with a few up to 4 GW. Wind, too, is beginning to muscle into the ‘Gigawatt-Plus’ club. George Marsh asks: How soon solar power could join the big hitters.