Wärtsilä moves into solar

Finnish company Wärtsilä, a specialist in gas and liquid fuel-powered generation, has announced that it is moving into the development of solar and solar-thermal hybrid power plants. The company is offering engineering, procurement and construction delivery for solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants larger than 10MW as well as utility-scale hybrid systems based around coupling solar PV generation with its Smart Power Generation power plants. Wärtsilä is targeting markets in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and South East Asia and aims to generate annual sales worth €300m ($330m) by 2020.