Two new ground-mounted PV installations – which have a combined power output greater than the capacity installed in all but four of the PVPS countries during 2003 – were inaugurated in September. Within days of each other, a 4 MW plant was opened in Geiseltalsee, Saxony- Anhalt, and a 5 MW installation was unveiled in Espenhain near Leipzig. Built on a polluted brownfield lignitemine ash site, the Espenhain plant is (currently) the largest grid-connected system in the world, though plans are afoot to add a further 2 MW to the Geiseltalsee installation.

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