The 11.6MW array was built byIndian developer KSK Energy Ventures adjacent to one of its coal-fired powerplants, and is registered under the country’s National Solar Mission.

The US Export-Import Bank(Ex-Im Bank) provided $9m in debt financing for the project – the second timeit has provided finance for a solar project using modules from theSanta Clara-based company in India.

Like cadmium-telluridethin-film giant First Solar, MiaSolé – whose modules are based on copper,indium, gallium, selenide (CIGS) technology – are exempt from the local-contentrules embedded within India’s National Solar Mission.