Phoenix, based near Munich, will act as EPC contractor for the 38.6MW ground-mount array as part of a strategic alliance it signed in 2011 with Tennessee-based developer Silicon Ranch.

Modules will be supplied by China’s JA Solar, inverters by Germany’s SMA, and the mounting system by US-based Unirac.

The project, which will cover 65 hectares of land previously used for cotton farming some 50km east of Atlanta, will be finished by the end of the year – contributing revenue to Phoenix’s 2013 figures.

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