Monday, July 25, 2011

Grupo Clavijo completes France's largest PV plant

SPAIN: The Spanish Grupo Clavijo company has finished installing the fixed structures on France's largest photovoltaic solar farm in Curbans in the Provence-Alps-Côte d'Azur region on more than 130 hectares of land (the equivalent of 130 football fields). The statistics of this farm show the magnitude of this project.

Total installed power: 33 MW
Total investment: € 80 million
Energy supplied: 30,000 inhabitants.

The solar farm was assembled and installed over 15 months by a workforce of 80 people, 25 of whom occupied new positions created specifically for the project. The installation will provide CO2 emissions savings of up to 120,000 tons per year.

Grupo Clavijo was founded in 1961. The firm's main headquarters are in Viana (Navarre). It has three business divisions, one of which specialises in renewable energies, specifically the design, manufacture and assembly of fixed structure and single and dual axis solar trackers. All its products (like those used in Curbans) feature the most advanced technology. One example is the innovative, patented, azimuthal brake installed in many of its trackers.

The firm is present all over the world, with more than 150 MW installed in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Bulgaria, Canada and the USA among other countries. It also has production plants in the United States, Canada, Mexico, as well as the factory in Navarre, which was recently extended by more than 1,000 m2 with a continuous profile line.

Grupo Clavijo's internationalization strategy involves expanding in the countries where it already has a foothold and entering new markets which are investing in photovoltaic solar power such as India and the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, among others.

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