Engie toasts arrival of panels for 22MW French solar

• The Volgelsheim PV plant in the Haut-Rhin area will certainly be commissioned in August 2022

Photovoltaic or pv panels have started arriving at the site of the 22MW Volgelsheim solar project in France, being created by Engie.

The Volgelsheim project, in the Haut-Rhin region which surrounds Switzerland, was selected as part of the first batch of the "power transition of the territory of Fessenheim" require solar tenders by the Ministry of Ecological Transition.

Société Centrale PV Volgelsheim, whose shareholders consist of Engie Green as well as regional team SAEM Vialis, is establishing the project.

Commissioning is arranged for August 2022.

The project is being established on a previous military site where the solar plant will certainly occupy an area of 20 hectares.

The setup will certainly be furnished with 41,472 modules in overall.

Vialis as well as Engie Green have actually also revealed that the 11.5 MW Ligelios solar project has been chosen as a winner of the last ministerial call for tenders, the results of which were released in early March.

The ground-mounted solar energy plant will be improved a degraded site on the western outskirts of the City of Colmar.