Siliken continues to increase its experience at building installations through the development of new photovoltaic solar farms. In the region of Puglia (Italy), in cooperation with Fotowatio, the details are being finalized on five, 1-MWn installations: Ginosa, Ruffano, Galatone I, Galatone II and Maruggio.

These farms, designed and built by Siliken for Fotowatio, have been built under the EPC mode, one of Siliken’s specialties.

At 1 MW of power per installation, all five installations use a total of 21021 of Siliken’s 230- and 240-Wp SLK60P6L modules. With this power, each farm is capable of injecting 1.44 GWh annually onto the power grid, which is equivalent to 1190 tons of CO2 that are not emitted into the atmosphere using this method of clean energy generation, in comparison with energy production using a gas combined-cycle plant.

These farms also use Siliken string monitors and a monitor for the entire system using SCADA software developed by Siliken. Bolted structures with driven piles at inclinations of 30º and 25º have been used in all these farms, given that concrete footings are not allowed at these installations in Italy. Like all our farms, it is also equipped with its own weather station.

This project started in May, and the five installations are currently about to be connected to the power grid. Some archeological remains were found during the installation work, and they have remained outside the farms at the distance established by Italian legislation.