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Good Day Sunshine

By Katherine Bourzac

The Serpa plant’s 90 acres are covered by 52,000 panels that support nearly four million solar cells (black squares). Howard Wenger, executive vice president of PowerLight, says that building a solar park this large offers economies of scale: it is less expensive than installing the same number of solar cells in smaller plants or on the roofs of individual businesses and homes.