Mexico's largest PV array near finish line as last modules arrive

Solar Frontier expects its CIS modules to perform better than the others used at the Cerro Prieto site

Japan’s Solar Frontier has unpacked the final box of modules at a 5MW array being built by Iberdrola’s Mexican subsidiary, in what will become the largest PV installation in Mexico, and among the largest in the fast-growing Latin American market.

As part of plans to test various solar technologies, Mexico’s state-owned utility CFE earlier this year commissioned Iberdrola Ingenieria & Construcción Mexico to build the Cerro Prieto array using several competing modules – including Solar Frontier, contracted to supply 1.5MW, and Spain’s Siliken, which last year opened a module assembly plant in Tijuana.

The Cerro Prieto project, in the Mexican state of Baja California, will be owned and operated by CFE, and is due on line by the end of the year.

Solar Frontier says it expects its copper, indium, selenide…

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