October 13, 2009

Tudela, Spain: Proinso to Supply 3 Megawatt Belgian Project

The Spanish company PROINSO, specialists in engineering and supply of photovoltaic solar plants, has signed a collaboration agreement with the Belgian engineering company Nizet, for the supply of modules, inverters and fixed structures, which will become the largest solar farm in Belgian, located in Ivarem.

PROINSO, part of the OPDE group will also be responsible for advising on engineering and design optimization, as well as training the qualified staff of the Belgian company.

The new plant at Ivarem will have an output of 3 MW and will become the largest in Belgium, a country with a total of 100 MW of solar photovoltaic facilities.

The entire supply operation will amount to €5 million and will run from mid October until next December 2009, date for the launch of the new solar plant, which will operate in combination with a methane plant.

Over the next months, PROINSO will provide 3 megawatt of 3 Trina Solar TSM-PC05 modules of 235 Wp (with an efficiency of 14.4%), 270 SMA inverters (SMC11000TL equipment); 266 MECASOLAR fixed structures (model MS-2CFIX) as well as communications and monitoring equipment (SMA).

PROINSO says they are extremely satisfied with the importance of the agreement. "Not only because we will be supplying and advising Belgium’s largest plant, but for the trust Nizet have placed in us by choosing us as a partner for their first incursion into solar photovoltaics of this size."

Further details about: PROINSO