Ten megawatts of CIS solar cells in the Saudi sun—and concentrator PV from SolFocus, as well.

Solar Frontier, a Japanese thin film solar company with big plans (and a 100 percent subsidiary of Showa Shell), just announced that it will supply Saudi Aramco with 10 megawatts of CIS solar modules for a car park installation in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The installation will be one of the largest photovoltaic-covered parking lots in the world, at approximately 40 acres when completed by the end of 2011. The panels will cover 4,450 parking spaces and will have a capacity of 10 megawatts, providing all the building’s daytime power needs. The urban parking lots in that part of the world tend to be covered, anyway.