Project Focus: Phoenix Solar builds 18MW solar plant for new customer

Hamburg-based Luxcara Asset Management is the owner of a new 18MW solar power plant built by Phoenix Solar in Senftenberg, Brandenburg, Germany on the site of a former opencast mining area. Approximately 240,000 CdTe thin film modules from First Solar will have been used for the project when completed.

The first 14.4MW has been connected to the grid, but because the building plan for the project had been legally finalised before the cutff date of March 25, the second construction phase can be carried out in the second half of 2010 and is therefore not subject to the additional feed-in tariff cut, according to the company.