Photon Energy brings live 7.5-MWp solar park in Romania

Photon Energy NV (WSE:PEN) has successfully started feeding electricity to the grid from a 7.5-MWp solar park in Romania, the Amsterdam-based clean power and water sector company said on Monday.

The Faget 3 plant is the largest in Photon Energy’s independent power producer (IPP) portfolio and has expanded its global operational fleet to 140.3 MWp across 100 assets. In Romania alone, the Dutch firm owns 12 plants with a combined capacity of 48.4 MWp.

Located near the town of Faget in western Romania’s Timis County, the newly connected photovoltaic (PV) farm was built across 9.1 ha of greenfield land, comprising 12,216 bifacial modules on single-axis trackers. Some 11.1 GWh of electricity is expected to be generated by the plant, with the power to be fed into the grid managed by Retele Electrice Banat. The output will be sold on the national energy market on a merchant basis.

The project was realised by Photon Energy’s local engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) unit Photon Energy Engineering Romania srl. The group is currently working on the commissioning of a 3.2-MWp solar park in Calarasi County, on the border with Bulgaria, which is slated to go live by the end of the year.

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