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MiaSole Celebrates Wales Solar Park with ARTAT Festival Sponsorship

Installation underscores MiaSole global reach and the potential of solar as a viable sustainable energy source

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

MiaSolé announced its sponsorship of the ARTAT 2011 Festival to commemorate the launch of the new Western Solar Park at Rhosygilwen, Wales. The festival takes places in the Rhosygilwen’s extensive grounds from Aug. 26-29, 2011.

The Western Solar Park is a first for Wales and one of the largest in the United Kingdom. Comprising more than 9,000 panels that equal 1MW, the park will generate enough green energy to power 600 homes when it is connected to the UK’s national grid this summer. This creates a large carbon neutral region in North Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion.

The park is also the first site in the U.K. where MiaSolé CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide) panels, one of the highest efficiency thin-film photovoltaic solar panels in the world, are installed.

“MiaSolé is delighted to have partnered with Rhosygilwen and Czech installer FitCraft Production to create an environmentally friendly footprint in West Wales,” said Joseph Laia, president and CEO, MiaSolé. “At MiaSolé we’re committed to advancing the extraordinary potential of solar power as a competitive, sustainable energy source, and the Western Solar Park is an excellent example of this.”

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