The world's largest solar thermal system, with a collector area
of nearly 400,000 square feet (over 36,200 square meters). The
system is providing hot water and heat for the entire campus of
the Princess Noura bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia. The campus covers 8 square kilometers (over 3 square
miles) and houses 40,000 students and faculty. Special solar
glass as well as a special mounting system for the panels were
used to help protect them from the region's sandstorms, which
could otherwise ruin the $4.7 million dollar array. The array is
nearly twice as large as the previous record holding array,
located in Denmark. Panels for the project were built by
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