Acciona Energy announced it has connected to the grid its 46-megawatt photovoltaic power plant in Amareleja (Moura, Portugal) after 13 months of construction. The company said the plant, which employs Acciona-designed tracking systems, is the largest of its kind in the world.

The Amareleja plant covers a total area of 250 hectares not far from the border with Spain. It has 2,520 tracking systems. Each tracker has 104 polycrystalline silicon modules with a capacity of 170 and 180 watts, and the trackers support a total 262,080 PV modules. The trackers follow the sun with an azimuthal rotation movement of 240 degrees, and a fixed inclination of 45 degrees.

In total, Acciona has an installed capacity of 68 MW of solar power, with a further 100 MW of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) currently under construction.