Greece’s prime minister has announced a €600m project to build on a brownfield site what would be the world’s largest photovoltaic solar power installation.PPC is already developing a 50MW photovoltaic park at Megalopolis in southern Greece, also close to an elderly lignite-fired power plant.

The 200-megawatt photovoltaic installation would partly cover a site close to the complex, formerly used for strip-mining of lignite. Its capacity would be more than double that of the 80MW Sarnia photovoltaic park in Canada, currently the world’s largest.