The 7.56MW solar power plant in Torre Santa Susanna in the Brindisi province of the Apulia (Puglia) region is one of the largest solar tracking projects in Europe 7.56MW (32,202 Panasonic Solar HIT panels / 235W per panel) The photovoltaic modules are fixed with solar trackers which are oriented towards the sun to increase the total output power The solar park was approved in August 2009 Installation of the solar modules and equipment was completed by December 2010 The PV park was connected to the Italian utility ENEL’s electricity grid in April 2011 and was officially opened in June It was reported in 2011 that an undisclosed investor has acquired the photovoltaic park and would operate it for 20 years The uniaxial Torre Santa Susanna solar tracking plant is built on an area of 19ha of open land It produces about 13,300,000kWh of electricity a year which is sufficient to power 3,300 houses with four household members Panasonic Solar supplied 32,202 HIT-235HDE4 modules Each module produces 235W and has a conversion efficiency of 16.9% The solar park is equipped with Power One Aurora PVI Central inverters and 1,900 Ideematec SafeTrack ST 25 tracking systems of 4.23kW each The facility is equipped with HIT (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin layer) solar cells from Panasonic Solar (previously Sanyo Solar) The HIT module cell comprises a mono thin crystalline silicon wafer enveloped Impurity-free i-type amorphous silicon layers are formed in the solar cells between the p-type and n-type amorphous silicon layers and the crystalline base into alternating current to allow feeding to the electricity grid Advantages of the Panasonic Solar HIT photovoltaic panels over the traditional crystalline silicon solar panels include increased electricity generation capacity in a limited area reduction in power losses and high efficiency at high temperatures Torre Santa Susanna project is the first large-scale installation of Sanyo Electric’s HIT solar systems They were selected due to their proven performance reliability and long-term investment benefits The modules were earlier operational only in medium-sized commercial and residential rooftops They are now being installed on major projects elsewhere such as the Blackfriars Station Solar Bridge in London designed and constructed by general contractor EST Energie & Solar Technik on a turnkey basis EST Maintenance uses its proprietary software for monitoring and maintaining the facility Dean Solar was responsible for commercial management of the project Construction and integration of the solar systems was done by CIET The tracking systems were supplied and installed by Ideematec Arcadis acted as the engineering services consultant Unicredit Leasing was the financier of the project Deutsche Bank’s Asset Finance and Leasing (AFL) renewable energy division was responsible for project management consultation services and arrangement of long-term debt financing and equity for the solar tracking plant The bank has so far developed about 50 large scale renewable energy projects including offshore and onshore wind projects generating more than 850MW across the globe Italy is the second largest photovoltaic market (after Germany) in Europe The solar power market has been rising rapidly in Italy since 2007 and is projected to touch 30GW in 2020 The boom is due to government incentives and grants to combat climate change and shift to renewable resources for power generation The other giants of the solar power market are Spain Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network A new work by Michelangelo Pistoletto in a village in the province of Lecce L’edicola del Canto della pace preventiva a work created by the Piedmontese artist for the Salento municipality of Parabita which aims to create a permanent contemporary art collection starting with the reactivation of the votive wayside shrines that dot the village’s historic center.The opening ceremony will be held today at 8:30 p.m in the widening at the foot of the steps of the Church of St who will present a Lectio Magistralis introduced by “Votiva” co-curator Laura Perrone The meeting will be preceded by greetings from the Mayor of Parabita Stefano Prete a brief introduction to the project by co-curator Flaminia Bonino and a talk on Pistoletto’s work by Raffaela Zizzari Guided tours of the votive wayside shrines will follow The aedicule of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Song of Preventive Peace features a sphere of newspapers and the Song of Preventive Peace reflected in a mirrored surface with a QR code that activates an additional level of reading the work This site-specific installation continues Pistoletto’s commitment to creating art as an engine of social transformation and offers an important invitation to peace the brainchild of Mayor Stefano Prete and under the artistic direction of Giovanni Lamorgese with the curatorship of Laura Perrone and Flaminia Bonino and the support of Councillor Francesca Leopizzi is part of the larger Parabita for the Contemporary project This project sees for the first time the City of Parabita commissioning a selection of artworks specially created for the occasion and signed by sixteen internationally renowned contemporary artists The artists featured in Votiva include Francesco Arena (1978 Claire Fontaine (an art collective formed by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill form an itinerary through the historic center of the village inviting visitors to rediscover its spaces by following the thread of votive aedicules Originally born as a testimony to popular spirituality these aedicules have become a distinctive feature of Parabita’s architectural landscape and now create a fertile ground for the regeneration of the community fabric transforming themselves into spaces of artistic expression for citizenship The program aims to strengthen the link between community and tradition opening new avenues toward creativity and innovation through targeted interventions that see contemporary art as a valuable engine for growth and change of Pepperdine University talks about indigenous-led ministries after Tebogo Ramatsui and Machona Monyamane conclude their talk about their work in South Africa at the Global Missions Conference The church also has an active prison ministry this African church sponsors mission work in India and Cambodia stands with supporting church members from Mississippi at the Global Missions Conference Monyamane talked about the role of Africa’s urban churches in reaching people from across the continent — and then sending them back home with the Gospel He likened the work of urban churches to that of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost About 3,000 people were baptized in the big city of Jerusalem and from there they planted new churches throughout the ancient world.“That is the plan God had for a global mission,” Monyamane said.In between sessions I got to meet Conrad T a man I had heard about for years but never met Tsiga has preached the Gospel since 1964 in the African nation of Zimbabwe He currently ministers for a Church of Christ in Seke talks about his ministry at the Global Missions Conference I sat in on a session presented by Franco Verardi an Italian minister who works with Churches of Christ in the southern Italian cities of Taranto Verardi also has done mission work in Cambodia and works with youth camps in Italy and Albania.Verardi is a tentmaking he referenced the apostle Paul’s work making tents where the term “tentmaking” comes from.“The greatest preachers have always had two jobs,” he said “Even Jesus was a carpenter.”While he talked about the specific mission fields where he works he stressed that “every heart without Christ is a mission field.” Subscribe today to receive more inspiring articles like this one delivered straight to your inbox twice a month Your donation helps us not only keep our quality of journalism high but helps us continue to reach more people in the Churches of Christ community {amount} donation plus {fee_amount} to help cover fees Francesco Arena (Torre Santa Susanna – Brindisi 1978) examines the significance of history and contemporary memory for the construction of the present in an artistic inquiry which is physically impressed into his sculptures in order to retain its intensity thus providing evidence of a history designed to be shared safeguarding their intrinsic properties but matching them with the need to convey an idea or a specific event which is metaphorically encapsulated in sculptural form For the weight and dimensions of his sculptures Arena often uses his own body as a unit of measurement since a key aspect of his artistic practice is the reciprocal relationship between the art work and the human being (both in the sense of the author and the spectator) Another crucial aspect of his work is the awareness that history is made by human beings who experience a specific moment either actively or passively and can intervene in the formation understanding and consequentiality of a series of phenomena which is simultaneously sculptural and political began in 2004 when the artist recreated a full-size model of the flat in which Aldo Moro was imprisoned by the Red Brigades beginning in 16 May 1978 (the precise dimensions of the room in which he was incarcerated were 3.24 sq m) Between 2007 and 2008 the artist used various materials reclaimed objects and fragments of other sculptures to make a series of supports for real sickles and hammers thus physically creating the symbols of communism Since 2009 his work has focused as well on the events surrounding the death of the anarchic railwayman Giuseppe Pinelli unjustly accused of the Piazza Fontana bombing (Milan “an innocent man who died in tragic circumstances…” The three works entered in the collection at Madre in the context of Per_forming a collection project consist of highly polished bronze bars entitled Passo (“Stride”) The numbers engraved on each of the bars – whose segments correspond to the artist’s stride length – have to be multiplied by the size of each one on which the number “x 250.000” is engraved the multiplication generates the distance between the station at Budapest and the Austrian border which was walked by 3000 Syrian migrants in 2015 The numbers “x 2.130.691” and “x 1.215.720” are engraved on Passo doppio and the result of each multiplication generates the distance that separates Bodrum from the Austrian border and the distance that separates Bodrum from the Syrian border while the total of these two distances indicates the length of the journey made by Syrian refugees to reach Europe In the work Passo triplo the three sheets form a T-shape and the numbers “x 482.588” “x 456.514” and “x 1.151.103” are engraved on the junction between them: the multiplication of these numbers results firstly in the distance separating Munich from the Italian border then the distance between Munich and the French border and lastly the distance between Munich and Sweden taking Munich as the distribution hub for migrants between Northern and Southern Europe