According to BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific, the world's largest solar power station will be built in South Korea by 2006, a provincial government said today.
Representatives from Sun Power and Geothermal Energy Co, a solar systems design company from the U.S. and Sharp Electronics Corp of Japan came to South Korea to map the final details.
The station will be located in the coastal county of Sinan, about 420 km southwest of Seoul.
Construction of the 15 MW solar power station will begin next February and is expected to be completed in October 2006.
"South Cholla Province is a blessed region, which receives the largest amount of solar radiation in the country," Park Joon-young, South Cholla Province governor, said. "The Sinan station will be the world's largest."
Sun Power will design and install the solar power systems and Sharp will supply the cells needed to generate solar energy.
12 companies are seeking to establish solar power stations in the province to produce a combined 37 MW of solar energy.
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