Solar Frontier, the world’s largest CIS solar energy solutions provider, announced today their advanced technology has been selected by O2 emc for a 4-MW project in North Carolina, one of the fastest growing solar states in the United States. The Tolson solar project will be one of the first tracking installations with CIS thin-film solar modules in the state.
A $10-million-dollar investment, the Tolson solar plant under construction in Edgecombe County, N.C., will be equipped with Exosun’s advanced Exotrack HZ single-axis trackers orienting over 24,000 Solar Frontier modules towards the sun throughout the day to considerably increase the plant’s output versus fixed-tilt installations and traditional crystalline modules. Expected to be completed in 2015, the renewable energy plant will generate almost 7 gigawatt-hours of energy per year, or more electricity than 600 average American homes would consume on an annual basis.