Electrical installations for biggest French photovoltaic power plant

16 May 2011 - New contracts - France

Cegelec Sud-Est (Cegelec France Division, Energy business line) is due, late this summer, to hand over the basic electrical installations of the solar power plant at Les Mées (south-east France), the biggest photovoltaic power plant as yet installed in France (110,000 panels). With a capacity of 31 MWc, it will extend over 66 ha. For this €3m contract from Siemens T&D, Cegelec will be burying 90 km of ducts and laying over 250 km of cables. A 10 km-long trench will be created to link the plant to the grid.