WiredInUSA May 2016

SolarWorld Americas will supply 17.5MW of solar power modules for a plant in the Mojave Desert, west of Las Vegas. The plant will use over 51,000 340W modules produced by SolarWorld in Hillsboro, Oregon, with installation by SolarWorld’s longstanding partner, Bombard Renewable Energy. The project is expected to be completed by the end of this summer. The Mojave Desert plant is the latest project by SolarWorld worldwide. In January 2016, the company secured the order for a 10.5MWplant inOregon, and is Solar, worldwide

also building a 5MW plant in Great Britain and a 2MW solar park in the Netherlands.

SolarWorldalready recordeda significant increase in shipments for large-scale solar power projects in 2015, with a year-on-year increase of 50 percent. The rise in the number of repowering projects has also contributed to the increasing share of large-scale projects. Besides Germany, the majority of the plants are located in France, Great Britain and the US. The MENA region will also play a significant role for large-scale projects in the future.

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