The loan represents a significant – if temporary – win for T-Solar and the beleaguered Spanish solar sector.

Aside from Yingli, which will supply modules for the Solar Orchard Imperial 1 array, located near the Mexican border, the project will be dominated by Spanish companies.

Seville-based GPtech has been chosen to supply inverters, Pamplona-based Sti norland will supply the single-axis trackers, while Isolux Infrastructure, which acquired T-Solar in 2011, will perform the EPC work.

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