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Game Info[]

Advanced power plant. Requires a Factory; city must be on or next to a Desert and not contain a Nuclear Plant.

Strategy[]

A Solar Plant is a modern building which increases a city's Production Production, and it's the ecological alternative to the Nuclear Plant as a top Production Production-boosting building. Unlike the Nuclear Plant, it doesn't require Uranium Uranium to work, making it a better choice. However, it can only be constructed in a city which is on or adjacent to a Desert tile.

Civilopedia entry[]

A solar plant collects the energy from the sun and turns it into electrical power. The most efficient solar plants are, naturally, in locations that get a lot of direct sunlight and not much cloud cover. At present solar-generated energy is somewhat expensive when compared with energy generated from fossil fuels (petroleum or coal), but solar technology is getting cheaper, and fossil fuels are getting more expensive - particularly when the environmental cost of the pollutants they emit is taken into consideration. Once the technology is perfected it will do much to satisfy the world's energy needs - it's estimated that the earth receives some 200,000 times more solar energy than humanity's total present electric-generating capacity.

See also[]

Civilization V Buildings [edit]
Airport Amphitheater AqueductArmoryArsenalBank (Hanse Satrap's Court) • Barracks (Ikanda Krepost) • Bomb Shelter Broadcast TowerCaravansary Castle (Mughal Fort) • Cathedral CircusColosseumConstabulary CourthouseFactoryForgeGarden (Candi ) • GranaryHarborHospitalHotel Hydro PlantLibrary (Paper MakerRoyal Library ) • LighthouseMarket (Bazaar) • Medical LabMilitary AcademyMilitary BaseMintMonastery Monument (Stele ) • Mosque MuseumNuclear PlantObservatoryOpera House (Ceilidh Hall ) • Pagoda Police Station Public SchoolRecycling Center Research LabSeaportShrine (Pyramid ) • Solar PlantSpaceship FactoryStable (Ducal Stable ) • StadiumStock ExchangeStone WorksSupermarket2Temple (Burial TombMud Pyramid Mosque) • TheatreUniversity (Wat) • Walls (Walls of Babylon1) • Water Mill (Floating Gardens) • Windmill (Coffee House ) • Workshop (Longhouse) • Zoo
1 Requires a DLC2 Сut from the game
Added in the Gods & Kings expansion pack.
Added in the Brave New World expansion pack.