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Not only the Swiss-Swedish ABB, meanwhile, vigorously mixed in with big business photovoltaic systems. The German Siemens has entered and logged significant orders in the emerging solar market in Italy, before in France and Spain.

Siemens Energy has received a repeat order for the turnkey construction of eight
photovoltaic (PV) systems from Italy. The solar power plants will be built in the Marche and Abruzzo, lying between the Adriatic and the Apennines mountain range. Customer is Viridis Energia, a joint venture of Echidna and La.GISrl SpA, based in Ancona. The PV systems with a peak output of 14 megawatts (MWp) will be in the first half of 2011 completed and then supply more than 5,000 Italian households with environmentally friendly electricity. For the same client Siemens built in the fall of 2010 solar power plants with a peak power of three MWp in the Marche region. As a general contractor in accordance Siemens press release is responsible for the turnkey construction, engineering and project management of the PV systems. The Siemens scope of supply includes components such as inverters, medium voltage switchgear and control systems.

Siemens also has the large PV system in Beneixama, Spain built. At the time of completion, it was with 20 megawatt capacity, the largest of its kind in the world.












"Italy is one of the largest markets for large-scale photovoltaic systems in Europe," said René Umlauft, CEO of the Renewable Energy Division of Siemens. "Last year, Siemens orders for photovoltaic systems with a peak performance of more than 30 megawatts from Italy received. The market will grow this year continues to be healthy and it
we want to participate. " Last year, Siemens Energy had already made France a 30-megawatt contract for a total of six PV systems in Les Mees Province Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. There, too, and completion is scheduled in the current summer.

photovoltaic systems are part of Siemens' environmental portfolio, which the company achieved in fiscal 2010, an sales of around EUR 28 billion . Making Siemens the world's largest supplier of environmentally friendly technology. Customers with products and solutions company in the same period, 270 million tons of carbon dioxide savings (CO2), which is so much like Hong Kong, London, New York, Tokyo, Delhi and Singapore in the sum
to emit CO2 annually.

Source: Various Siemens Mediencommunique