Half
of
the
solar
park’s
87,000
photovoltaic
(PV)
panels
will
be
of
the
thin-film
variety
supplied
by
US-based
First
Solar,
while
the
other
half
will
be
crystalline
panels
manufactured
by
China’s
Suntech.
The
park
is
the
Middle
East's
first
grid-connected
PV
generation
plant,
and
will
supply
Masdar
City
with
17,500
megawatt-hours
each
year.
Incorporating
a
mixture
of
thin-film
and
crystalline
cells
is
becoming
increasingly
common
in
large-scale
solar
parks,
according
to
Sander
Trestain,
vice
president
of
technical
operations
for
Enviromena,
the
Abu
Dhabi-based
contractor
in
charge
of
installing
and
maintaining
the
PV
panels.
“Different…
