South Korea to Get World's Largest Solar Plant

South Korea is to have the world’s largest solar power plant by next year.

Plans to build a 20MW solar plant in South Korea's southwest port town of Sinan by 2008 were announced on Wednesday. South Korea's Dongyang Engineering and Construction and Germany's SunTechnics will be running the project.

The $169.5m solar power station will have a generating capacity of 20MW, Dongyang said in a statement. "This will correspond to the annual power consumption of more than 6,000 households," it said.

The project is part of South Korea's plan to develop clean and renewable energy resources to reduce consumption of fossil fuel.

The world’s largest plant is currently the Bavaria solar plant in Germany. It has an 11MW capacity.