The €285 million facility, which will include an extra-high voltage substation. will be located in Bordeaux, France.

The project will call on the expertise of Clemessy subsidiary RMT for engineering studies, Eiffage Energia for connection work, Eiffage Travaux Publics for earthworks, Schneider Electric for the electrical conversion chain and Krinner GmbH for screw-in foundations and photovoltaic structures.

It is being developed by Neoen, a significant player in the French renewable energy market, and once completed, will provide a total peak capacity of 300 MW.

The farm will be connected directly to the very-high voltage power grid and is to come on line in October 2015. It will generate more than 350 gigawatt-hours a year, enough to cater for the daytime power consumption of the entire population of Bordeaux.