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Kenyon Energy and Tri-City Electrical Contractors have completed a 1.1MW solar system installation for Darden Restaurants at their Restaurant Support Center in Orlando, FL. The largest private roof top solar array in Florida, the system will generate enough power to subsidize 15 to 20 percent of the RSC’s annual usage – the equivalent of taking the campus off the power grid for nearly two months.
Schott Solar and Canopy advised that their 2.2MW Ucciani solar park had been completed. The solar park uses nearly 10,000 Schott PV modules from the company’s Perform Poly series and is connected to the national grid, providing around 2.86GWh of solar energy.
Martifer Solar has completed building work on a 5MW PV project in Normandy, France for Germany-based investment fund Leonidas Associates IV. Situated amidst the Second World War galleries and bunkers in the coastal town of Veules Les Roses, the system’s 21,400 panels make it one of the largest arrays in northern France.
In early 2011, Moser Baer finished work on India’s first large-scale PV project. The 5MW system is located on 66 acres of private land in Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga district and is powered by Moser Baer’s amorphous silicon thin-film modules.
The Saint Charles International fruit and vegetable distribution centre in Perpignan, France is now the site of the world’s largest building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) system, after 97,000 Solaire France Sunstyle PV roofing tiles were installed on its roof.
KDC Solar has joined forces with SunDurance Energy and the County of Middlesex in New Jersey to build a 6.7MW solar array. The ground-mounted system will generate 8.45 million kWh of solar electricity a year, catering for all of the energy requirements of the Middlesex Apple Orchard Complex in North Brunswick where it is being built.
Eighteen months after construction begun, Taiwan’s largest solar plant has been connected to the grid. The 5.92MW system, located in Kaohsiung, is comprised of 16,000 panels, cost NT$640 million (US$20.9 million) to build and is being managed by the state-run Taiwan Power.
New Zealand is set to invest nearly NZ$8 million in a new large-scale PV system, according to Foreign Minister Murray McCully. The 1MW plant will be situated on Tonga, and with an annual energy generation capacity of 1880 MWh it is expected to cater for around 4% of the island’s energy requirements.
Building work on the first project under Grupo T-Solar and Astonfield Renewable Resources’ long-term strategic partnership deal is under way.
Australia’s Sunshine Coast Regional Council has granted planning permission to Energy Parks Australia (EPA) for its new solar plant in Valdora, Queensland.
