Argentina has picked European and local firms to implement its rural, off-grid solar PV Permer programme.

The winners includes Spain’s Solar Jiennense, a group formed by Ennera and Tecnoambiental, Italy’s Mega SRL and Argentina’s Coradir.

These companies will by mid-2017 install around 5,700 off-grid rooftop PV arrays in rural areas of eight provinces in the South American nation. The government said that 1,844 arrays in the provinces of Salta, Rio Negro and Neuquén were left uncontracted.

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