Sharp Corp. and Enel Green Power announce that their JV company, Enel Green Power & Sharp Solar Energy S.r.l. (ESSE), began new operations at the end of March 2012 at solar power plants at five sites in Italy with a total capacity of 14.4 MW.
These five solar power plants use thin-film solar cell modules manufactured by 3Sun S.r.l., an equal JV of Sharp, Enel Green Power, and ST Microelectronics(3) established for the integrated production of thin-film solar cells which began operations in December 2011. In the future, ESSE plans to construct multiple solar power plants with a total generating capacity of more than 500 MW by the end of 2016. With the addition of these five sites, it has six solar power plants in commercial operation in Italy with total capacity of approximately 20 MW. In the future, ESSE will continue to expand its solar power business in Europe, particularly in the Mediterranean area, as well as in the Middle East and Africa, leveraging the strength of its thin-film solar cell modules produced in Italy.
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