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BP Solar to Build 300MW Solar Manufacturing
Plant in Spain
Dec 11, 2007 - Clean Edge News
BP Solar, a European market leader
in the design, manufacture and marketing of photovoltaic
solar energy, will begin construction in the second
quarter of 2008 of a module assembly factory in the
industrial park of La Nava II, in Puertollano (Castilla
La Mancha). This represents an investment of around
100m Euros.
The new plant will use state-of-the-art
technology to manufacture photovoltaic solar modules.
The production capacity, in phase one, would be up
to 300 MW per year, which means enough energy to meet
the needs of between 150,000 and 200,000 homes and
a saving of approximately 420,000 tons in CO2 emissions
per year. A further possibility, once the phase one
is in production and dependent on the conditions of
the market, is the implementation of a second phase
expansion of the plant to reach production capacity
of up to 500 MW.
The BP Solar factory in Puertollano
will not only bring about social benefits but will
deliver major advances in the economic development
of the area as it is expected to generate 500-600
direct new jobs. The opening of the factory sets a
benchmark in technological development in the field
of the large-scale production of photovoltaic modules
worldwide.
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