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Suntech to Supply Spain's Proposed Solar PV Park

November 22, 2006 | 2 Comments

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Wuxi, China [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. will supply solar modules with a total output of 23.2 megawatts (MW) to Atersa for installation in the Photovoltaic Grid Connection Park in the Extremadura region of Spain. It is expected that these solar modules will be supplied within the first half of 2007.

"With Spain's recently enacted feed-in-tariffs and a climate favorable to solar energy production, we expect that Spanish demand for solar products will grow rapidly in coming years."

-- Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Suntech, Chairman and CEO

Atersa, a subsidiary of Elecnor Group, is one of Spain's leading project planning and integrated management and infrastructure development companies.

The Photovoltaic Park will cover an area of 65 hectares and have more than 120,000 solar modules. When completed, it will be the largest such power plant in the world, generating more than three times more energy than the 5 MW solar power station currently claiming "world's largest" in Leipzig, Germany.

"With Spain's recently enacted feed-in-tariffs and a climate favorable to solar energy production," said Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Suntech's Chairman and CEO, "we expect that Spanish demand for solar products will grow rapidly in coming years. Suntech aims to be a long term provider of quality PV products in Spain and this project is a critical part of that effort."

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karl-traxler-58255

November 22, 2006

The world's largest PV park is not (or not anymore) in Leipzig, Germany but in Erlasee, Bavaria, Germany, built by Solon AG.

http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/partner/story?id=45931

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Peter-Segaar

November 29, 2006

Yep, Solon has made a flabbergasting advertizing video, with Erlasee in the final shots:
http://www.pioneers-of-power.de/files/index_e.html

And Acciona has taken up the 62 MWp project in Moura, in the vicinity of the 11 MWp PowerLight project in Serpa, both in South Portugal:
http://www.polderpv.nl/nieuws_PV13.htm#28apr2006_Serpa_vs_Moura

And China wants to build a 100 MWp plant in Dunhuang (Gansu Province, N. China):
http://english.people.com.cn/200611/21/eng20061121_323677.html

And, finally (but certainly not lastly), Australia has BIG and very well advanced plans for a Heliostat Concentrator PhotoVoltaic plant of .... 154 MWp (good for learning some Dutch language..., or else follow the links):
http://www.polderpv.nl/HCPV_154MWp_plant.htm

And..... getting a headache to track all the big ones being planned and/or built, but with a BIG smile on my face!

Solar for everyone!

http://www.polderpv.nl

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