Spanish solar-PV power generator T-Solar has announced it is expanding with the construction of a further 61 MW in Peru and India.
The group, which already has over 230 MW under operation and construction in Spain, Italy, India and Peru, has just brought its first PV power plant in India online. The new 5 MW plant uses thin-film amorphous silicon panels produced in the company's Galicia factory.
The new plant is located near the city of Jodhupur, Rajasthan, from which it will be feeding 8.5 GWh a year into India’s national electricity grid.
The plant was developed by T-Solar and Astonfield Renewable Resources under a JV agreement they signed last June, and is the first photovoltaic power plant to be brought online by a Spanish company in India.
T-Solar and Astonfield will also connect a second 12.3 MW photovoltaic power plant to the Indian grid in Patan, Gujarat before the end of the year.
The investment in both plants, which will generate sufficient power to supply over 43,000 Indian homes, is €38 million.
The company is also supplying two photovoltaic plants to the Arequipa region of southern Peru, under the terms of a 20-year contract with the Peruvian government.
The two new plants, which will also use thin-film amorphous hydrogenated silicon modules, will be T-Solar's first large-scale projects in the country and will generate 80 GWh a year—enough power to supply over 18,000 Peruvian homes. T-Solar expects the plants to come online in June 2012.
A total of €118 million will be invested in the Peruvian plants, partially financed by the US-based Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
A subsidiary of the Isolux Corsan Group, T-Solar has 173 MWp installed capacity already online in 43 plants located in Spain, where there are 34 plants; Italy, which has eight; and India, where there is one. Its solar photovoltaic plants generate over 250 GWh a year.
