Phoenix Solar awarded EPC contract for 19.6 MW PV single axis tracking plant in Texas

08/04/2016 | Print view

Phonix Solar is also entering the growing U.S. PV utility-scale tracker market, shown here a project of Array Technologies. - © Array Technologies — © Array Technologies

Phonix Solar is also entering the growing U.S. PV utility-scale tracker market, shown here a project of Array Technologies.

Phoenix Solar Inc., a 100% subsidiary of German based Phoenix Solar AG has been awarded the company’s first project in the state of Texas. It is part of a plant on a military base.

Phoenix Solar’s scope of services will include the design, procurement and construction of the solar facility of a hybrid project for Apex Clean Energy (Apex).

Hybrid solar/wind project at Ford Hood

Apex, founded in 2009, is an independent renewable energy company focused on building utility-scale generation facilities. Apex is currently overseeing construction of the hybrid solar/wind energy project, which is designed to optimize solar energy produced on-site at US Army Garrison Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. The project will incorporate low-cost wind energy produced at the Cotton Plains Wind facility in Floyd County, Texas, ensuring a consistent, affordable, and secure energy resource to power the Army’s mission at Fort Hood.

Promising partnership with Apex

“Apex is among the most active companies in the US renewables market, providing energy solutions for the corporate and public sector markets,” says Tim P. Ryan, CEO of Phoenix Solar AG. “We appreciate their broad knowledge regarding wind energy facilities. From our side, we are very pleased to contribute our excellence in engineering, procurement and construction to the solar part of their projects.” The Fort Hood project is the first installation that Phoenix Solar will construct as a part of a hybrid plant in the USA as well as a foray into the growing solar market in state of Texas. (HCN)