Voltalia wins 3.75-MW solar project in French tender

• French sustainable power manufacturer Voltalia SA (EPA: VLTSA) has secured a 3.75-MW ground-mounted solar project in a residential tender held by the French federal government.

The Montclar photovoltaic (PV) plant will certainly be mounted in a hilly neighborhood of Montclar in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, southerly France. It will certainly be geared up with 8,600 panels that will certainly be capable of creating adequate electrical power to provide more than 2,500 occupants, Voltalia claimed on Wednesday.

The solar ranch will cover an area of 4.2 hectares (10.4 acres). Voltalia noted that it will use an innovative metal framework to build the facility in order to fit the mountainous terrain. The French Different Energies and also Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) will certainly help it approximate the take advantage of innovations to be released.

At the end of June, Voltalia had 1,264.7 MW of installed capacity, the mass of which comes from wind parks in Brazil. An added 247.6 MW of plants are unfinished.