is a 40 Mega Watt photovoltaic site alot?

Question

yea because my company im with just contracted to build one in east german in Brandis its pretty exciting, we're going to get alot of exposure from this.

Answer 1

YES. As you can see in the web sites below the current largest PV plant is 10 MW in Germany spread out over three different sites with nearly 58,000 separate cells linked together. This should not be confused with the largest solar power plants located in and around the Mojave Desert that produce between 14 MW and 80 MW.

To keep this is perspective two or three small gas fired turbines could be placed on the same land area and produce anywhere from 150 MW to 300 MW. A coal fired facility would probably use two to three times the area but would produce between 600 MW and 850 MW per unit.

Answer 2

It is a question of point of view!
An 85W solar panel (photovoltaic) is sufficient to supply energy to a small house or a caravan.
We need around 400W for a town house, with batteries.
So, a 40,000,000W site is big! Too big for a house or a small town, but to small for New York or Paris!

Answer 3

PV is an expensive way to generate power when you look at the cost of the cells vs how long they last. 40 megawatts is a huge amount of power for just about any method of generating electricity.