Hellenic Petroleum snaps up 303-MW solar project in Greece

• Greek power team Hellenic Petroleum (ELPE.AT), or ELPE, has actually clinched a deal to get a 303-MW solar park project at home from domestic renewable project programmer FEN SOL, Energypress reports.

The photovoltaic or pv (PV) complex will include two different plants situated in the Florina municipality, in the northern parts of Greece's Macedonia area. The scheme is currently undertaking environmental licensing.

According to the report, ELPE is servicing an extra PV project of about 20 MW in adjacent locations, which will be later on contributed to the bigger scheme. Supposedly, the Greek company will certainly need several months in conclusion the environmental process as well as look for an interconnection contract with transmission system operator IPTO.

ELPE has actually just recently completed the building of a 204-MW solar facility in Kozani, Western Macedonia, as well as is expected to bring the plant online at the end of March, regional media states. In the past few months, the company obtained a 16-MW solar park in Viotia from Trina Solar and a 37.2-MW wind farm on the island of Evia.