The Marguerite Fund has bought 36MW of the Toul-Rosières plant near Nancy in northeast France – which it claims is the biggest PV scheme in Europe.

Toul-Rosières will cover 522 hectares of a former airfield and be equipped with 1.5 million thin-film PV modules from US supplier First Solar.

The plant is expected to begin power generation in the third quarter of this year.

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