Le Gabardan - France Photovoltaic Power Plant

Electrical Energy - Photovoltaic Le Gabardan - France Photovoltaic Power Plant

PROJECT Gabardan Photovoltaic Power Plant

Situation Losse - Nord East of the Landes Department - France

Customer Customer: EDF Energies Nouvelles

Application Complete electrical distribution solution

Installed equipment Turnkey contract for 22 transformation EDF Energies Nouvelles is a 50% owned subsidiary of the EDF group. stations of 1 MVA each, and 1 grid EDF EN is present in 10 European countries and in North America, and connection station, including sizing, supply, is one of the leaders in the renewable energies market, and particularly installation and commissioning photovoltaic solar energy.

CUSTOMERS BENEFITS The group’s objective is to reach a net installed capacity of 500MWp by the end of 2012. To achieve this, it has started the construction of the • A reliable and experienced partner Gabardan photovoltaic power plant in the French department of Landes. • A single contact for the stations This power plant has a potential total capacity of 76MWp. • Minimum loss in the case of a fault thanks The power plant will be built on a 780-acre plot of land in the municipality to the monitoring system that allows energy of Losse in the Aquitaine region of France. There are 2 projects to this production to be remotely controlled power plant: an innovative pilot project of 11,100 modules mounted on • A 20-year maintenance contract for the solar trackers, with an installed capacity of 2MWp, and 1,020,000 fixed inverters photovoltaic modules, with an installed capacity of 74MWp.

The future production of this power plant, which will be connected the national electricity grid, will be equivalent to the electrical consumption of almost 40,000 inhabitants.

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Projects & Engineering Center F-38050 Grenoble Cedex France Cedex Grenoble F-38050 Center Engineering & Projects

- Spain - Molina De Segura - Murcia (300 KW) - Spain - Villacañas - Toledo (2,5 MW) - Spain - Saragossa (10 MW) @ @ tracker project: “pilot” the For maintenance and supply, Sizing, commissioning installation, station connection grid the and stations @ @ @ Buildings All cables linking the two transformation transformation two the linking cables All array boxes 40 station connection grid 1 MVA 1 of each stations transformation 2 Telephone: 00 (33) (4) 76 57 60 60 www.schneider-electric.com 60 76 60 57 (4) (33) 00 Telephone: Pilot “tracker” project single-line diagram single-line project “tracker” Pilot

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