CPV exclusive: SolFocus’s VVC system officially turned on, Greek project construction under way
When I attended the opening ceremony of SolFocus’s 1MW concentrator photovoltaics power plant at Victor Valley College in late May and wrote up an initial blog-report, not all the icing on the proverbial cake had dried. At the time, company VP Nancy Hartsoch told me that the CPV system still had to go through a “customer acceptance period” before the installation was fully online, signed off, and operational. She also said at the time that the first portion of a long-postponed 10MW project in Greece was likely to break ground in June or July. News flash: customer acceptance has been completed and the Southern California system was officially turned over to VVC in late June, and construction of the Hellenic system is under way on the historic isle of Crete. Plus work on the Alice Springs Airport project in Australia is back on track after some flooding-induced delays.