California will build the world's largest solar power plant

Sources of information and time: Chinese Daily News 08/22/08
U.S. power industry in California will be the construction of two solar power plants to produce electricity will be the last such plant 12 times that of the photoelectric solar power is rapidly expanding economies of scale.
Two solar panel factory will cover central California, an area of 12.5 square miles in a day when the sunny weather can produce about 800 million watts of electricity, equivalent to a large coal-fired power plants, or a small nuclear power plants. 1 million watts of electricity can supply a large Wal-Mart shopping malls; 800 million watts could supply 239,000 households.
Production of electricity will be sold to Pacific Gas and electronics companies (PG & E), according to the state government, the power industry must be in 2010 before the production of renewable energy to 20 percent of electricity. PG & E said the new plant will use photoelectric technology, the sunlight into electricity, including wind, solar thermal (solar thermal), and other renewable energy competition. Solar thermal is the use of solar thermal power generation technology of boiling water.
PG & E spokesman Zell said: "The market-leading program can act as a global model. This is a milestone."
However, two plants in sunny although generating 800 million kilowatts, annual operating time than coal-fired or nuclear power plant short, the average daily production of electricity may be only one-third or less.