Voltalia to develop 4-MW solar plant at space base in French Guiana

• Renewable power producer Voltalia SA (EPA: VLTSA) has actually been granted the building of a 4.2-MW solar farm in French Guiana by France's space agency CNES.

CNES will certainly money the construction helps the EUR-5-million (USD 5.6 m) project, which will take advantage of the French Recuperation Plan, Voltalia announced on Wednesday.

The 5-hectare (12.3 acres) photovoltaic or pv (PV) plant, safeguarded with a tender held by CNES, will certainly be developed at the Kourou space base, owned by the Guiana Space Centre (CSG).

Voltalia expects the PV park to go online by June 2023.

This solar plant belongs to a bigger eco-friendly project at the Kourou's space base. In all, the system includes two PV farms as well as two biomass energy plants, which will certainly supply clean power and cooling down for the CSG.