Soitec designed and built the 1.17MW plant in the Catania province of Sicily, with France’s Schneider Electric supplying two 500kW central inverters to the project.

Soitec will own the system and sell all of the electricity to Italian utility Enel.

Last year Grenoble-based Soitec finalised its acquisition of CPV pioneer Concentrix, a start-up company based on technology developed at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute.

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