The Arnprior Solar Generating Station is a 23.4 MW solar farm developed on two adjacent properties located near the town of near Arnprior, Ontario, Canada.

The total project size is expected to be 80 MW, and upon completion it will become one of the largest projects worldwide. The current project phase consists of 312,000 Photovoltaic thin film solar panels made by First Solar and mounted on 13,000 racks on a 200 acres (81 ha) field.

EDF EN Canada developed the project on two adjacent properties as part of the province's Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program, which provides a generous feed-in tariff of €0.2821/kWh for ground-mounted systems of or over 10MW for a period of 20 years.

Tristan Grimbert, president and CEO of EDF EN Canada and all EDF EN affiliates in North America, said, "Arnprior proves the unique abilities of EDF EN Canada to commercialize a flagship solar PV project in a matter of a few months. Our relationship lenders once again have demonstrated their support of our efforts and renewable energy. We look forward to applying our resources, experience and partnership capabilities to the FIT ground mount and rooftop development in 2010 and beyond."

EDF EN Canada has also executed term financing agreements with Dexia and Union Bank, N.A for the project.

"It has been our pleasure to support EDF EN over the years, and particularly with this project," said Lance Markowitz, senior vice president at Union Bank and manager of leasing and asset finance. "We are particularly excited to have played a key role in the financing of the Arnprior Solar Project as it extends EDF EN's leadership in the renewable energy industry to the Canadian solar market."

Alban de La Selle, managing director and head of Dexia Credit Local Canada Branch added, "Dexia is very pleased to take this opportunity to further evidence its commitment to finance the solar energy sector, where the bank has long been a pioneer in Europe. The Arnprior Solar Project will certainly be a landmark in the growing solar industry in Ontario, and we hope it will blaze the trail for many others under an appropriately tailored FIT program, and hopefully for other Canadian provinces."

Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant near Sarnia, Ontario in Canada, is as of September 2010 the world’s largest photovoltaic plant with 80 MW_p.

20 MW^p Phase I was completed in December 2009 and 60 Phase II in September 2010. Plant consists of over 1,000,000 panels. The project is developed by Enbridge.

The Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant project was originally proposed by Opti-Solar under the Standard Offer Contract program. Opti-Solar had started contstruction on one of the several 10 MW contracts it had obtained from the Ontario Power Authority.

Opti-Solar failed in the development of its technology and had installed only one MW of its first 10 MW plant when it sold rights to the project to First Solar.

To my knowledge, First Solar is building two 10-MW_AC projects using its inhouse thin film product. Canadian Hydro Developers is either the owner now or will be when the project is complete.

Because the contracts are in kW_AC the 20 MW project is likely rated at 23 MW_DC.

There has been heated debate about this and other large solar PV farms on prime ag land so I thought I'd visit one and see for myself. At least in this case, the project is on the peri-urban fringe of Sarnia with suburbs, stripmalls, malls, and assorted detritus of North American sprawl swallowing the existing ag land. My impression was that this particular project area would have become another mall or something similar and was destined to be bulldozed within a decade.

The site was also near a landfill and if the parcel didn't become a mall it could have become a landfill.

Nevertheless, it was farm land prior to construction and its now fast becoming one of the largest, if not the largest solar PV farms in North America.