Hanwha Q Cells to build floating solar power plant in Netherlands

[Photo provided by Hanwha Q Cells Corp.]

Hanwha Q Cells Corp., a solar power unit of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, will build a photovoltaic power plant in the Netherlands, which would be the country’s largest floating solar power farm.

Hanwha Q Cells said on Tuesday it would deliver 6,100 units of 300-watt monocrystalline photovoltaic (PV) modules for a floating solar power plant to be built on a local reservoir near Lingewaard in the eastern Netherlands.

Under the project, Hanwha Q Cells will install the modules on a water surface area of about 15,800 square meters by June. Once their installation is completed, the facility would be the largest floating solar power plant in the Netherlands with an electricity capacity of 1.85 megawatt (MW), or 1575.5 MW-hour per year that would be enough to power more than 380 households, the company said.

Hanwha Q Cells hopes the project would help it enhance its brand awareness across Western European countries such as Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Last year, the company also successfully clinched a deal to build what would be Europe’s largest solar power module plant in Ankara, Turkey. The company will produce solar ingots, wafers, cells and modules from the plant and build a solar farm with a 1 GW capacity using them.

Hanwha Group acquired German solar power business Q.CELLS in 2012 and has rapidly expanded its solar module and cell business across the world since the acquisition. Hanwha Q Cells is currently led by Kim Dong-kwan, chief commercial officer of Hanwha Q Cells and the eldest son of Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-youn.

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