Huawei’s Technological Leadership

Rick Fransen is building the largest PV power plant in the Netherlands. Fransen works for the international solar developer Solarcentury and this 45 MW project in Holland involves a staggering 160,000 photovoltaic modules.

By

Eckhart Gouras

01 Aug 2018

pv magazine publisher Eckhart Gouras meets with Huawei Chief Energy Scientist Yunfeng Liu in Shanghai, March 2018. | photo: pv magazine

It is a challenging project, not only because of its size but because the plant is being built on top of contaminated land, specifically the discharge of an old zinc mine. This hazardous discharge has been sealed off by a protective membrane, which in turn has been covered by a sizable layer of soil. But …

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