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Blatets
Location: Bulgaria
Operator: EVN Naturkraft Erveugungs und Verteilungs GmbH
Configuration: 837 kWp
Operation: 2009-2010
System supplier: ??
Quick facts: Blatets was built out on a 2km² site in Sliven region with three different types of PV systems. Annual output is about 1 GWh. Photograph courtesy of EVN
Posted 5 Oct 2011 |
Curbans
Location: France
Operator: GDF SUEZ Energy France
Configuration: 33 MWp PV
Operation: 2011
System supplier: Yingli
EPC: Grupo Clavijo SL
Quick facts: This solar farm at Curbans in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is on 130ha and cost €80 million. Installation took over 15mos with a workforce of 80 people.
Photograph courtesy of Grupo Clavijo SL
Posted 26 Aug 2012 |
Eigg PV
Location: Scotland
Operator: Eigg Electric Ltd
Configuration: 10 kWp
Operation: 2008
System supplier: ??
Quick facts: When the Isle of Eigg's renewable energy system was fully commissioned, it served 37 households and 5 commercial properties. The
scheme has a 10-kW solar array, three small hydro turbines, 4 X 6-kW wind turbines, and a control system and battery set-up that can supply up to
24hr of renewable energy if circumstances dictate. Two 80-kW diesel gensets were added for for backup. The final cost of the project was
£1.664mn provided by 7 different national and community-based authorities. Eigg Electric is a subsidiary of Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust.
Photograph courtesy of Eigg Electric
Posted 25 Feb 2009 |
Floridade
Location: Netherlands
Operator: Nuon
Configuration: 2.3 MWp
Operation: 2002
System supplier: Siemens
Quick facts: In April 2001, Siemens
Solar was awarded a €16mn contract for this installation at the Floriade international horticulture center in
Amsterdam. The turnkey contract resulted in the installation of about 19,000 panels on 25,000 sq m of semi-open
greenhouse, making the installation the largest PV roof in the world when completed.
Photograph courtesy of Holland Solar
Posted 26 Jan 2006 |
Les Mées
Location: France
Operator: Eco Delta Developpement SA
Configuration: 24 MWp PV
Operation: 2011
System supplier: Suntech
EPC: Siemens
Quick facts: This plant is in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and was the largest in France on completion. It is a joint project of Eco Delta and Sumitomo Corp and consists of 112,780 modules deployed in six PV fields on 70ha of the plateau of La colle des Mées at an elevation of about 800m.
The €110mn investment was financed by equity and bank loans.
Photograph courtesy of Eco Delta Developpement SA
Posted 27 May 2012 |
Malvezy
Location: France
Operator: EDF Energies Nouvelles
Configuration: 7 MWp PV
Operation: 2008
System supplier: First Solar
EPC: Belectric
Quick facts: This plant was built on fallow ground in the Malvezy industrial zone of Narbonne.
About 95,000 panels were installed
Photograph courtesy of Belectric
Posted 19 Mar 2011 |
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Middelkerke
Location: Belgium
Operator: Electrawinds SA
Configuration: 1.3 MWp
Operation: 2007
System supplier: ??
Quick facts: At completion in Jun 2007, the €6mn Middelkerke facility was the largest PV plant in Belgium. This 6ha site
has 7,695 solar panels.
Photograph courtesy of Electrawinds SA
Posted 20 Sep 2008
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Nieuwland Amersfoot
Location: Netherlands
Operator: Eneco Holdings, Amersfoot SCW
Configuration: 1.62 MWp
Operation: 2002
System supplier: Shell Solar, BP Solar, Colt
EPC: Ecotec Systems
Quick facts: At completion, this was the world's largest residential PV installation. It includes rooftop panels mounted on homes, a sports
complex, and schools. Planning started in 1995 and most construction was finished in 2002. Phased development was by several utility, municipal,
and cooperative entities with individual homeowners also participating. The main players were Regionale Energiemaatschappij Utrecht NV (REMU,
later Eneco), Ecofys, Amersfoot SCW, HBG Vastgoed, and Novem. Some funding was provided by the EU Thermie program.
Costs are somewhat indeterminant due to the number of participants but were estimated to be €9.23mn.
Photograph courtesy of Eneco Holdings
Posted 7 Jun 2008 |
Oceanium Blijdorp Zoo
Location: Netherlands
Operator: Eneco Holdings
Configuration: 510 kWp
Operation: 2004
System supplier: Shell Solar
EPC: Siemens Nederland
Quick facts: In January 2004, Rotterdam Mayor Ivo Opstelten activated the Sunport generator installed on the roof of the Oceanium in Rotterdam’s
Blijdorp Zoo. At the time, it was the largest urban rooftop solar energy system in the Netherlands. The 5,000m² roof has 3,000 panels expected to
produce about 325,000 kWh/yr. The €3.9mn project was supported by Eneco (47%), Novem (33%), Rotterdam municipality (12%), Zuid Holland province
(6%), and Blijdorp Zoo (2%).
Photograph courtesy of Eneco Holdings
Posted 7 Jun 2008
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Puits-Castan
Location: France
Operator: EOLE-RES
Configuration: 5 MWp
Operation: 2011
System supplier: Fonroche Energie
EPC: Fonroche Energie
Quick facts: This project in the Aude region
in the foothills of the Montagne Noire is the first EOLE-RES solar plant to complete and went into operation in Apr 2011. The €18mn
project has 21,760 panels on a 10ha site.
Photograph by Pascal Rodriguez and courtesy of EOLE-RES
Posted 19 Dec 2010 |
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Yankovo
Location: Bulgaria
Operator: Solarpro
Configuration: 2.404 MWp
Operation: 2009-2010
System supplier: Solarpro
EPC: Solarpro
Quick facts: The first phase of this plant in Shumen region went online on
29 Aug 2009. At completion, it became the largest PV plant in Bulgaria.
Solarpro is majority-owned by Bulgarian mining company Kaolin SA. The thin-film amorphous-silicon PV modules
were manufactured in a new plant in Silistra.
Photograph courtesy of Solarpro
Posted 6 Feb 2011
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