United Solar Ovonic, a subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD) (NASDAQ: ENER), will supply up to 25 megawatts (MW) of UNI-SOLAR brand photovoltaic laminates to Enel Green Power for installation on a number of buildings owned by CIS-Interporto di Nola in Italy. Enel Green Power is the renewable energy operating company of the Enel Group (ENEL.MI), Italy's largest utility.
UNI-SOLAR laminates will be fully integrated with the existing architecture and will be installed on the roofs of a number of commercial and logistic buildings, and are expected to begin producing power in 2010. Once operational, the facility will be capable of producing about 33 million kWh per year, enough to meet the consumption needs of approximately 13,000 households, more than a third of the inhabitants of Nol.
Mark Morelli, ECD's president and CEO, said, "... the evolution of our business to target large scale, multi-rooftop projects is taking shape. We look forward to working with them on similar opportunities in other countries and expanding our relationship to include many more rooftop projects in the future."
In addition, United Solar is making a major contribution toward a 4-MW building integrated photovoltaic system on the roof-tops of the Marcegaglia Group's industrial plant in Taranto. The system will be mostly equipped with UNI-SOLAR flexible light weight photovoltaic modules. The project is scheduled to start operating in 2010. The installation features Marcegaglia's Brollo Solar photovoltaic roofing system. This roofing system is formed by UNI-SOLAR laminates being directly applied to corrugated sheets or insulating panels to form a light weight BIPV roofing solution.
