France Recieves Its Largest PV Solar Power Facility

GDF SUEZ and its joint venture partners together with the Mayor of Curbans, France, Daniel Rolland, signed an agreement to build France’s largest photovoltaic solar power facility in Curbans (south east of France). The project is part of the Group’s strategy by the year 2013 to have a diversified electricity production base with an installed capacity of 10,000 MW. Moreover, the Group has a portfolio of photovoltaic solar energy projects totaling close to 200 MWp.

The city of Curban’s photovoltaic power facility will have a total output of 33 MWp with approximately 145,000 photovoltaic panels producing 43.5 million kilowatt hours of renewable energy each year, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of 14,500 households (excluding heating) and, compared with a fuel oil power plant, sparing close to 120,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions annually. The photovoltaic facility will cover 150 acres on a large plateau at 3,280 feet altitude. Commissioning is scheduled for August 2011.

Construction and operation of the future facility will be carried out by a specially-created project company made up of GDF SUEZ and two financial partners: EuroFideme 2  (Natixis Environnement & Infrastructure) and SEIEF (Dexia). The company will carry the financial investments committed for the project. GDF SUEZ and its joint venture partners will be in charge of the facility’s operation and maintenance during twenty years.

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PV Power Plant Mounted on Roof in Germany

Day4 Energy Inc.has completed the delivery of a turn-key 2.4 megawatt (MW) roof-mounted photovoltaic (PV) power plant for Gunther Heiss Solar Gmbh & Co. KG in Germany. The project was financed by a local Volksbank, backed by Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt am Main.

Day4 Energy was responsible for the design, engineering and construction of the PV power plant together with one of our leading German based channel partners. The plant includes 12,600 48MC Day4 modules. The energy produced at this solar plant will be sold to the local grid provider under the German feed-in-tariff (FIT) Law (EEG).

Gunther Heiss, president of Gunther Heiss Solar Gmbh & Co. KG. Heiss Solar located in Emmingen, is a German company focused on the business of tree nurseries. Heiss has developed a concept to cultivate ginseng plants that prefer shading to sunlight for optimal growth and therefore require extensive roofs. The combined investment into the roof infrastructure and its power generation capability is a unique solution to the project.

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