LDK Solar to Provide Modules for Largest Private Net-Metered System in Western Hemisphere

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. LDK today announced that the Company has signed an agreement with Advanced Solar Products, of Flemington, New Jersey, to supply 58,803 PV modules for the largest privately-owned, net-metered solar project in the Western Hemisphere at the East Windsor, New Jersey campus of The McGraw-Hill Companies. NJR Clean Energy Ventures , a subsidiary of New Jersey Resources NJR, plans to invest $60 million to develop and install the system. The clean, renewable energy produced by the project is expected to reduce the equivalent of about 10 percent of McGraw-Hill's annual carbon emissions. According to the terms of the project, all panels will be delivered by November 2011. Construction on the project commenced July 22, 2011 and the system is expected to be fully operational by the spring of 2012.