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Germany's sunny revolution

By Caroline Bayley
BBC Radio 4

On a bleak airfield 30km (19 miles) outside Leipzig in former East Germany, a quiet but sunny revolution is taking place.

Derelict, communist-era barracks give way to hectares of solar arrays, lined up, row upon row, like a sea of gleaming plasma TV screens.

This is the heart of Germany's solar industry and, although still under construction, once complete it will be the world's largest solar power station, covering the equivalent of 200 football pitches and providing enough electricity for 10,000 homes.

Germany is the world leader in solar energy: building power stations across the country, developing the technology and manufacturing solar panels.

One in a hundred homes has gone as far as installing its own solar arrays.

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