E.ON says it has started building what will be its largest photovoltaic solar power plant to date, an 18 MW facility in Italy.
The German energy firm began construction of the Flume Santo 2 (FS2) power plant in June at a site adjacent to an existing coal fired power plant in the north-west of Sardinia. It is also building another PV plant – Flume Santo 5 (FS5) at the same site.
Together the two new PV plants will generate 29.6 MW of power and will more than double E.ON’s existing PV capacity in Europe. Both projects use crystalline silicon PV modules, says E.ON, which has made industrial-scale solar energy a key growth area for its business.
“I am delighted that we have successfully commissioned, in the last nine months, five PV ground-farms in France and Italy, with a combined capacity of 23.6 MW,” said Christophe Jurczak, E.ON Head of Solar PV. “With the completion of FS2 and FS5 at the end of 2011, we will have built a European PV portfolio with a capacity of more than 60 MW.”
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