Solar Frontier lands 150MW CIS module supply deal with enXco

Solar Frontier, the Japanese maker of copper-indium-selenium (CIS) PV modules, will supply up to 150MW of equipment to enXco, the North American project development unit of EDF Energies Nouvelles, for a major project in California.

The agreement includes a 26MW order delivered in the fourth quarter of 2011 for the Catalina Solar Project in Kern County, California, which at full build-out will be the largest in the world to use the CIS thin-film technology, Solar Frontier says.

The company, a unit of Showa Shell Sekiyu KK, intends to deliver an additional 34MW for the first phase of the project, to be completed by the end of the year. A second 90MW phase is to be completed by June 2013.

enXco signed a 25-year power…

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