The construction of the plant will start this year and is expected to be completed in April 2011.
At the site, SunPower will mount high efficiency SunPower E19 solar panels on the SunPower T0 Tracker system.
The tracker follows the sun during the day and delivers up to 25% more energy than conventional fixed-tilt solar power systems, while significantly reducing land use requirements.
The company said that environmental and visual impacts of the system will be minimized by the trackers’ concrete-free pier foundations, and a maximum system height of 2m.
In 2009, SunPower installed a 1.3MW rooftop solar power system at an E.ON power station in Sardinia, Italy.
