Yingli will ship more than 393,000 multi-crystalline panels between next month and June 2015 – giving it more than one-third of the giant development.

The project located in Cestas in the southwest of France, covering 250 hectares, is expected to be connected to the grid in October next year.

The €360m ($447m) 120MW chunk of the project is being developed by Neoen, a French independent power producer.

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