EVN, an energy company headquartered in Lower Austria, has opened a new photovoltaic park near the village of Blatets in the municipality of Sliven, Bulgaria.

EVN, an energy company headquartered in Lower Austria, has opened a new photovoltaic park near the village of Blatets in the municipality of Sliven, Bulgaria.

The newly erected solar power station is owned by Naturkraft EOOD – a company of EVN Group, which develops projects in the field of renewable energy sources (RES). Investment in the facility totals approximately EUR3m.

The photovoltaic power plant has been operating successfully and at full capacity since the beginning of March 2010 and is the biggest photovoltaic power plant of EVN Group. Total electricity generated so far amounts to 340,000kWh.

The newly erected solar energy park comprises three groups of photovoltaic elements with a total performance of 836.7kWp (kilowatt peak).