Activ Solar builds solar power plant in Crimea
KYIV. Dec 28 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Austrian company Activ Solar has completed the final, fifth 20 megawatt phase, of the Perovo Solar Power Park, bringing capacity to 100 megawatts, the company said in a press release.
The PV modules cover an area of over 200 hectares and will produce 132.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year. Activ Solar says the park will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 105,000 tonnes per year.
Installed capacity at Perovo can in sunlight produce the necessary amount of electricity required by Simferopol during maximum use, which will increase the reliability and quality of supply for the entire region.
Perovo Park was built in a record seven months. The power station uses solar panels produced in Asia and European investors.
Perovo is the largest PV park in the world in terms of installed capacity. It is followed by Canada's Sarnia (97 megawatts), Italy's Montalto di Castro (84.2 megawatts) and Germany's Finsterwalde (80.7 megawatts). Another Activ Solar project in the Crimea - the Okhotnikovo plant with 80 megawatts, which was completed in October 2011, completes the top five.
Activ Solar, which was founded by Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuyev's brother Serhiy, is involved in solar power projects in Southern Ukraine. The company built the Rodnikovoe solar power plant in the Crimea with capacity of 7.5 megawatts. Activ Solar also owns the Zaporozhye Semiconductors Plant, which produces polycrystalline silicon for the PV energy and semiconductor industries.