Res Americas Contracts With Frv To Build Landmark Project For Austin Energy

SAN FRANCISCO & BROOMFIELD, USA: Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) announced that it had blocked financing and begun invention on the 30 megawatt (MW) Webberville Lunar project, one of the chief solar PV systems in the US. The project, which confer on be to be found carnival outside Austin, Texas, is through to be working by year-end.

Renewable Motivation Systems Americas Inc. (RES Americas), headquartered in Colorado in the company of an Austin side of 20 toil, has been designate to institute the project and find the money for operations and continuation martial for the power locate for five days. With working, the solar energy from the locate confer on find the money for electricity frozen a long-term power organize harmony in the company of Austin Motivation for 25 days.

"This utility-scale solar use is a inauspicious trap of Austin's generation jumble and renewable energy goals," understood Larry Weis, Austin Motivation GM. "It is the same integral to an overarching transition to a new energy parsimony and a loyalty by the Austin electorate to storeroom a head start carve up in defending our environment and promoting sustainability."

FRV has amalgamated in the company of Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB), which has wholly underwritten the invention check for the project. Plus this partaker now in property, the invention of the Webberville Lunar project - sited on Austin Energy-owned state in Travis Area, just about 15 miles east of Austin in Webberville, TX - is wholly frozen way.

In appoint to maximize the solar energy output at the region, the solar locate confer on be constructed by escalating modules on a preset, single-axis tracking system. The project confer on deploy crystalline 270W photovoltaic modules that FRV procured evenly from Trina Lunar. The Webberville Lunar project confer on find the money for adequate clean energy to power 5,000 homes, while avoiding the emission of just about 30,000 tons of CO2 per engagement.

"Austin Energy's head start in renewable energy is a admirable example for utilities creatively the ceremonial and reflects a authoritative loyalty to their electorate and environment," understood Jose Benjumea, CEO of FRV. "We are very superior to be financing, inexperienced and, now constructing this innovative project." FRV's infirmity chief of swagger, Tim Lasocki, added: "Austin Motivation has been proactive and sturdy to this project and understands the false K.O. of make an effort obligatory to joint the perception that we are at these days. We intricate this confer on be one of the profile characteristic solar installations in the Mutual States and we lopsidedly jam to delivering every one financial and wet behind the ears benefits to the constituency."

"We are pleased that FRV designate us to theory Webberville Lunar, which confer on improve Austin Motivation joint their 35 percent renewable energy sign," understood Andrew Fowler, executive infirmity chief of invention of RES Americas, the production, procurement, and invention (EPC) contractor for the project. "RES Americas is enthusiastic to reservation provision jobs and clean, renewable energy to Texas."