The panels will be installed at four ground-mounted PV parks under construction in Romania, all expected to be brought on line by early 2013.

EDPR says it has brought forward its strategy of diversifying into “new renewable technologies” – a step it had not planned to take until at least 2014. The company owns wind farms totaling more than 7GW around the world, and, among European companies, is second only to Spain’s Iberdrola in terms of installed capacity.

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