Siliken has reached an agreement with the Italian company Alerion Cleanpower to set up a photovoltaic plant of 14 MW in the Italian town of Castellaneta (Taranto, Puglia). It will be one of the largest PV installations in Italy and will consolidate Siliken as one of the leading companies in the industry in this transalpine country. Siliken will deliver this installation as a turnkey project and final completion of the facility will be in June 2010. Siliken will be responsible for the maintenance of the plant for a period of 20 years as of the start of operations.

With its 14 MW power, the installation will consist of 60,800 Siliken SLK60P6L modules of 230Wp. The plant will have the capacity to inject yearly 22,34 GWh into the grid, which will avoid the emission of 11,660 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere –compared to the power production by means of combined cycles of natural gas– or the generation of 12,000 mm highly active radioactive waste.

In this plant, a Siliken piled structure will be used with a 30º angle. It will be equipped with Siliken's proprietary monitoring system for continuous monitoring, as is the case in all of the plants set up by Siliken.