8月2日，Sunpower与Solar Ventures 已经签署协议，他们要在意大利Piedmont地区建造3个光伏电厂。占地面积约30公顷，总发电量达11.1MW。电厂将会这个月开始动工，并与其在今年年底完成。
世界范围内，Sunpower光伏安装和协议光伏安装量达到了550MW，其中包括在欧洲的200MW的电力安装电站。
Sunpower的EMEA销售总监：“我们很开心与Solar Ventures 合作建立互信，零排放光伏电力给社区，并且继续一道扩大意大利的光伏市场。中圣集团发展高效电池，包括中圣的Serengeti 电池,这会提供高品质,可信赖的25的保证.
SunPower Corp. and Solar Ventures have announced that they have signed a contract to design and build three solar power plants in the Piedmont region of Italy. Totaling 11.1 megawatts over 30 hectares, the development represents one of the largest Solar power developments in the region. Construction on the plants will start this month and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
"We are delighted to partner with Solar Ventures to deliver reliable, emission-free solar power to the community and continue the rapid expansion of the Italian solar market," said Mario Riello, EMEA Sales Director for SunPower Utility and Power Plants division.
"This project reinforces SunPower's impressive track record in Italy where both development partners and financing institutions praise our bankability, high performance technology, and project execution."
On fixed-tilt, ground-mounted systems, SunPower will mount standard-efficiency solar panels, including SunPower Serengeti panels, which offer the same high quality, reliable energy delivery and 25-year warranty as SunPower's high-efficiency panel offerings.
"Solar Ventures built its first photovoltaic plant in Piedmont in 2007, where we have experienced excellent community and administration support for solar park development, as well as good irradiance levels," said Michele Appendino, CEO and chairman of Solar Ventures.
"We have therefore decided to focus our development efforts in this region, where we have other similar clusters of plants under construction this year. We are happy to work with SunPower, whose technology will deliver clean and renewable solar power for many years to come."
Worldwide, SunPower has more than 550 megawatts of solar power systems installed or under contract, including more than 200 megawatts of operational power plants in Europe.
