First Solar Inc. has executed an agreement to build a 48 MW ground-mounted thin-film solar PV power plant for Sempra Generation. This project would expand the 10-MW El Dorado power plant First Solar completed for Sempra Generation in 2008. First Solar will design, engineer and construct the PV plant. The company expects to begin construction in 2009. Once construction is completed in 2010, the combined 58-MW project is expected to be the largest thin-film PV power plant in North America.

The 48-MW project will be constructed adjacent to Sempra Generation’s existing 480-MW El Dorado Energy power plant, located about 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas. Sempra Generation will own and operate the PV power plant.

By Vasil Sidorov on April 21, 2009 after RenewableEnergyWorld.com