Soitec
designed
and
built
the
1.17MW
plant
in
the
Catania
province
of
Sicily,
with
France’s
Schneider
Electric
supplying
two
500kW
central
inverters
to
the
project.
Soitec
will
own
the
system
and
sell
all
of
the
electricity
to
Italian
utility
Enel.
Last
year
Grenoble-based
Soitec
finalised
its
acquisition
of
CPV
pioneer
Concentrix,
a
start-up
company
based
on
technology
developed
at
Germany’s
Fraunhofer
Institute.
Since
then
Soitec
–
a
semiconductor
specialist
–
has
aggressively
pushed
both
its
technology
and
its
project-development
services
around
the
world.
In
March
it
hired
Gaetan
Borgers,
the
long-term
head
of
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