SunTechnics to Construct 20 Megawatt PV System (South Korea)

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Before the year is over, the largest photovoltaic plant will be constructed in SinAn, southwest of the Korean capital Seoul. The leading construction company in Korea, Dongyang Engineering & Construction Corporation of Seoul, commissioned the German company SunTechnics, a subsidiary of the TecDax listed Conergy AG with the planning and implementation of the €90 million solar power plant.

With four decades of experience, Dongyang Holding is numbered among the Korean pioneers in the construction industry. Thanks to their unique success story, the corporation is considered to be one of the leading companies which have made a decisive contribution to the Korean economic miracle. In 2005, the Korean construction experts attained an annual turnover of €550 million with some 1,650 employees.

The sun-tracking photovoltaic system, with a total maximum output of 19.6 megawatts, is the size of some 80 football fields (600,000 m²), and will produce annually more than 27,000 megawatt-hours of environmentally-friendly electricity from the sun in the future. This will correspond to the annual power consumption of more than 6000 households.

"We are pleased to have won SunTechnics, by far the world’s most experienced full-service provider of renewable energy solutions, as partner in this major project, which is unique in its size and conception”, reported Yoon-shin Choi, Chairman of DongYang E&C, who has been interested in the renewable energy industry business for a long time already. “With the construction of this photovoltaic plant in Sinan, we are giving Korea an important signal about sustainable and clean power generation. Discharge of 300,000 tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide will be averted solely by the operation of our installations over the next 15 years,” added Choi.

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