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South Korea hot for solar energy

by Pat Coate | May 11, 2007

Shinan, South Korea - The town of Shinan in South Korea is to play to host to the world’s largest solar power plant, following government plans to generate 10 per cent of the country’s energy from renewable sources by 2020.

The initiative, due to be completed by the end of 2008, will start generating power as work continues on South Korea’s gigantic tidal power plant, strung between four islands west of the capital Seoul.

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