This plant is located on wasteland in the Malvezy industrial zone of Narbonne, in the south of France. It will supply the public electricity grid with the equivalent of the annual electricity consumption of over 4,200 people.
Construction is currently entering an active phase. The first structures supporting the solar panels are currently being put in place, as well as the inverters converting the direct current from the solar panels into alternating current.
The 95,000 thin-film technology modules supplied by US-based First Solar will be delivered to the site in late July 2008. Work is scheduled for completion by autumn, with commissioning due to take place by the end of 2008.
Solar power has become EDF Energies Nouvelles’s (EDF-EN) second area of expansion after wind energy. The group has commissioned its first solar projects in Italy, Spain and the US. It aims to build 400MWp by 2011 for its own account and for third parties.
