SOLON SE, a leading European photovoltaic module manufacturer and system provider, has been appointed by Rockspring Property Investment Managers, “Rockspring”, to construct and deliver a turnkey solar park with a peak power of around 408 kilowatts, on the site of an old RAF airfield at Westcott Venture Park, Buckinghamshire.
Rockspring with the assistance of renewable energy company, Ownergy, has commissioned SOLON to build the plant with Phase One to start immediately. The site is expected to be one of the few large scale solar arrays to be completed before the proposed feed-in tariff change in August 2011.
The solar park will be positioned and anchored through the existing concrete of a 1,4 hectare area of the existing runway at the Venture Park, located on the outskirts of Aylesbury. Over 1,500 SOLON modules and 28 Danfoss de-centralised inverters will be used to build the power plant which will supply the business park on site with green electricity in the future.
As the EPC contractor, SOLON is responsible for the planning, delivery and construction of the solar park. Construction work has already begun and is due for completion at the end of June. SOLON will subsequently take over the maintenance and operation of the power plant and sub-contract some of this vital work back to the facility management of the business park.
