Comments on: Record deal for boosted solar panels

Concentrator photovoltaic cell manufacturer to provide $103 million in solar cell systems across Spain.

[urshethalor]

This is a good move by Spain. There is also a lot of other infrastructure that needs to be built: for example the manufacturing of refined silicon needs to be significantly increased in order to service both the chip industry and the solar power industry. That's no small amount of investment required.

(detail, not a criticism): Units: 27,000 tons of C02 over what amount of time? Per month? Per year? Over the lifetime of the panels?

[candacelombardi]

Both constructive criticism and requests for more details are always welcome.
To answer your question, that would be 27,000 tons of CO2 in the first year alone. I've updated the story to reflect that.

[KSman01]

That is 250 watts of peak power per person, more like a enough power to run a 60 watt bulb 24 hours per day.

The investment is around $US 2500 per person. That is not enough to run a house on solar power.

Should the 40,000 town be a 4,000 residence town?

[candacelombardi]

Thanks for your interest.

"The 10-megawatt installation would collectively generate enough energy to supply a town of 40,000 residents" not residences. The average Spanish household also consumes significantly less power that the average U.S. household.