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  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Cosimo Gerardi, CTO and Head of Research and Development at 3Sun  (Enel Green Power), poses for a portrait at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
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The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3796.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Antonello Irace (49), Head of 3SUN at Enel Green Power, poses for a portrait at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3766.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Antonello Irace (49), Head of 3SUN at Enel Green Power, poses for a portrait at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3756.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Cosimo Gerardi, CTO and Head of Research and Development at 3Sun  (Enel Green Power), poses for a portrait at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
<br />
3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3786.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  People are seen here by the Fontana dell'Elefante (Elephant Fountain) in Piazza Duomo, in the historical center of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4253.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Mayor of Catania Enzo Bianco (67), who recently inaugurated the production line of the new bifacial thin film solar panel at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, poses for a portrait in his office in the town hall of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3914.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: An employee of the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, is seen here at work by the production line of the the new bifacial thin film solar panel during the testing phase, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3545.jpg
  • Gioia Tauro, Italy - 1 September, 2012: Unfinished tombs are seen here in the cemetery of Gioia Tauro, a mafia strongold in Calabria,  Italy, on September 1st, 2012. The unfinished concrete buildings, which are very common throughout Calabria, are the result of the inability to go beyond the merely useful, creating functionality without regard for form.<br />
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The current mayor of Gioia Tauro, Renato Bellofiore, was elected in 2010 after the former mayor and deputy mayor, Giorgio Dal Torrione and Rosario Schiavone, were arrested on Mafia charges in 2008. Both had been forced to step down when the city council was dissolved on suspicion of Mafia infiltration. Gioia Tauro is a city of 19,000 people built on an ancient Greek necrapolis and that today has the largest seaport in Italy and the sevent largest container port in Europe with its extension of 4,646 meters. Because the port is not connected to adeguate roads or rails, the ships mostly transfer containers to smaller vessels and little economic activity stays local. To authorities, the port is best known as the first point of entry for most of the cocaine that enters Europe from South America. In a routine rais earlier this month, authorities seized 176 kilos of pure cocaine with an estimated street value of 38 million euros.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redi
    CIPG_20120901_NYT_Calabria__MG_9588.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A man is seen here walking by the closed market in the historical center of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4364.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A scooter is parked in front of a stationery store in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4354.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  A retired man reads a book in the courtyard of the Catania CGIL, a national trade union centry in Italy, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4346.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A view of the Cathedal of Sant'Agata in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4299.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A view of the Cathedal of Sant'Agata in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4274.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A street scene in Piazza Duomo, in the historical center of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4217.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  Muscovy ducks are seen here by an articial lake used for the testing of floating photovoltaic panels, here at the Enel Innovation Lab, a research and development hub in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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The Innovation Lab Lab, which occupies a total area of ten hectares, hosts 1,000 square metres of labs and 30,000 square metres of outdoor testing areas, is a technological campus and an accelerator of young entrepreneurship, hosting start-ups and nationally and internationally important research centres (CNR, INRIM, University of Catania). <br />
Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4122.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Fabrizio Coco (36), a testing specialist of the solar simulator, poses for a portrait at the solar simulator lab of the Enel Innovation Lab, a research and development hub in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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The Innovation Lab Lab, which occupies a total area of ten hectares, hosts 1,000 square metres of labs and 30,000 square metres of outdoor testing areas, is a technological campus and an accelerator of young entrepreneurship, hosting start-ups and nationally and internationally important research centres (CNR, INRIM, University of Catania). <br />
Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4087.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Fabrizio Coco (36), a testing specialist of the solar simulator, poses for a portrait at the solar simulator lab of the Enel Innovation Lab, a research and development hub in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Innovation Lab Lab, which occupies a total area of ten hectares, hosts 1,000 square metres of labs and 30,000 square metres of outdoor testing areas, is a technological campus and an accelerator of young entrepreneurship, hosting start-ups and nationally and internationally important research centres (CNR, INRIM, University of Catania). <br />
Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4066.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  A tested solar panel is seen here in the solar simulator lab of the Enel Innovation Lab, a research and development hub in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Innovation Lab Lab, which occupies a total area of ten hectares, hosts 1,000 square metres of labs and 30,000 square metres of outdoor testing areas, is a technological campus and an accelerator of young entrepreneurship, hosting start-ups and nationally and internationally important research centres (CNR, INRIM, University of Catania). <br />
Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4047.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  The new bifacial thin film solar panel, produced by 3Sun, is tested here at the Enel Innovation Lab, a research and development hub in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Innovation Lab Lab, which occupies a total area of ten hectares, hosts 1,000 square metres of labs and 30,000 square metres of outdoor testing areas, is a technological campus and an accelerator of young entrepreneurship, hosting start-ups and nationally and internationally important research centres (CNR, INRIM, University of Catania). <br />
Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4032.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  The new bifacial thin film solar panel, produced by 3Sun, is tested here at the Enel Innovation Lab, a research and development hub in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Innovation Lab Lab, which occupies a total area of ten hectares, hosts 1,000 square metres of labs and 30,000 square metres of outdoor testing areas, is a technological campus and an accelerator of young entrepreneurship, hosting start-ups and nationally and internationally important research centres (CNR, INRIM, University of Catania). <br />
Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4013.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  The new bifacial thin film solar panel, produced by 3Sun, is tested here at the Enel Innovation Lab, a research and development hub in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Innovation Lab Lab, which occupies a total area of ten hectares, hosts 1,000 square metres of labs and 30,000 square metres of outdoor testing areas, is a technological campus and an accelerator of young entrepreneurship, hosting start-ups and nationally and internationally important research centres (CNR, INRIM, University of Catania). <br />
Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3988.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  A testing console is seen here at the Enel Innovation Lab, a research and development hub in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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The Innovation Lab Lab, which occupies a total area of ten hectares, hosts 1,000 square metres of labs and 30,000 square metres of outdoor testing areas, is a technological campus and an accelerator of young entrepreneurship, hosting start-ups and nationally and internationally important research centres (CNR, INRIM, University of Catania). <br />
Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3982.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  A solar panel is tested here at the Enel Innovation Lab, a research and development hub in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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The Innovation Lab Lab, which occupies a total area of ten hectares, hosts 1,000 square metres of labs and 30,000 square metres of outdoor testing areas, is a technological campus and an accelerator of young entrepreneurship, hosting start-ups and nationally and internationally important research centres (CNR, INRIM, University of Catania). <br />
Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
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<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3970.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Mayor of Catania Enzo Bianco (67), who recently inaugurated the production line of the new bifacial thin film solar panel at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, poses for a portrait in his office in the town hall of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
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<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3946.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: The visual inspection station of the new bifacial thin film solar panel is seen here during the testing phase at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3820.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: The visual inspection station of the new bifacial thin film solar panel is seen here during the testing phase at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3819.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A robot places strips of photovoltaic cells on a panel during the testing phase at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3662.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: An outdoor view of the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3431.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: An employee arrives at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3312.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: The 3Sun headquarters, the last European photovoltaic factory, is seen here in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3279.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: The 3Sun headquarters, the last European photovoltaic factory, is seen here in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3013.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  A local residents is seen here by the Fontana dell'Amenano (Amenano fountain) in the historical center of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4383.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  Local residents and a tourist are seen here by the Fontana dell'Amenano (Amenano fountain) in the historical center of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4375.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  A view of via Garibaldi and the Cathedral of Sant'Agata in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4356.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  A couple walks up the stairs of the church of San Francesco d'Assisi all'Immacolata (Saint Francis of Assisi dedicated to the Immaculate, in the historical center of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4352.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  A retired man reads a book in the courtyard of the Catania CGIL, a national trade union centry in Italy, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4349.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  A retired man reads a book in the courtyard of the Catania CGIL, a national trade union centry in Italy, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4343.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Two men chat in Piazza Duomo, in the historical center of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4331.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A view of the Cathedal of Sant'Agata in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4314.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  Francesco Basile (62), Dean of the University of Catania, poses for a portrait by the Cathedral of Sant'Agata in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4272.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A view of the Cathedal of Sant'Agata in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4232.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A view of the Cathedal of Sant'Agata in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4231.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A man walks by the town hall of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4222.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: People are seen here in Piazza Duomo, in the historical center of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4219.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A view of the Cathedal of Sant'Agata in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4190.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  People are seen here walking by the Uzeda gate in the historical center of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4152.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A man prays by a votive shrine at the Uzeda gate in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4140.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: The headquarters of the Enel Innovation Lab, a research and development hub in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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The Innovation Lab Lab, which occupies a total area of ten hectares, hosts 1,000 square metres of labs and 30,000 square metres of outdoor testing areas, is a technological campus and an accelerator of young entrepreneurship, hosting start-ups and nationally and internationally important research centres (CNR, INRIM, University of Catania). <br />
Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4134.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  Employees are seen here walking at the Enel Innovation Lab, a research and development hub in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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The Innovation Lab Lab, which occupies a total area of ten hectares, hosts 1,000 square metres of labs and 30,000 square metres of outdoor testing areas, is a technological campus and an accelerator of young entrepreneurship, hosting start-ups and nationally and internationally important research centres (CNR, INRIM, University of Catania). <br />
Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_4042.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018:  The new bifacial thin film solar panel, produced by 3Sun, is tested here at the Enel Innovation Lab, a research and development hub in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Innovation Lab Lab, which occupies a total area of ten hectares, hosts 1,000 square metres of labs and 30,000 square metres of outdoor testing areas, is a technological campus and an accelerator of young entrepreneurship, hosting start-ups and nationally and internationally important research centres (CNR, INRIM, University of Catania). <br />
Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3995.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Mayor of Catania Enzo Bianco (67), who recently inaugurated the production line of the new bifacial thin film solar panel at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, poses for a portrait in his office in the town hall of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3921.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Mayor of Catania Enzo Bianco (67), who recently inaugurated the production line of the new bifacial thin film solar panel at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, poses for a portrait in his office in the town hall of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3920.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Mayor of Catania Enzo Bianco (67), who recently inaugurated the production line of the new bifacial thin film solar panel at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, is seen here during an interview in his office in the town hall of Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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Catania is home to 3SUN, the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3885.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A informative display shows information regarding the roof solar plant of the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3851.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: An employee shuts off the light used for the visual inspection of the new bifacial thin film solar panel at the visual inspection station during the testing phase at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3846.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: An employee visually inspects the new bifacial thin film solar panel at the visual inspection station during the testing phase at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3824.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: The new bifacial thin film solar panel is seen here at the visual inspection station during the testing phase at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018..<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3612.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: An employee visually inspects the new bifacial thin film solar panel at the visual inspection station during the testing phase at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3573.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: The visual inspection station of the new bifacial thin film solar panel is seen here during the testing phase at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3571.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: A control station of the production line of the the new bifacial thin film solar panel  is seen here during the testing phase at the  3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3487.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Employees of the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, are introduced to a control station of the production line of the the new bifacial thin film solar panel during the testing phase, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3479.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: An employee of the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, is seen here at work by the production line of the the new bifacial thin film solar panel during the testing phase, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3467.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Davide Di Prima (35), Shift Team Leader of 3Sun, walks by the 3Sun factory offices, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3423.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: An outdoor view of the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3400.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: An outdoor view of the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3346.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: (L-R) Davide Di Prima (35), Shift Team Leader, and Andrea Ditta (33), Communication Specialist, look at a previous version of solar panel produced by the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3329.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: The 3Sun headquarters, the last European photovoltaic factory, is seen here in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3273.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Two employees of 3Sun, the last European photovoltaic factory, walk by the headquarters here in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3171.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: The 3Sun headquarters, the last European photovoltaic factory, is seen here in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3127.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: An employee arrives at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3050.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: Davide Di Prima (35), Shift Team Leader of 3Sun, is seen here on the terrace of the 3Sun factory offices, the last European photovoltaic factory, in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
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3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3003.jpg
  • Gioia Tauro, Italy - 1 September, 2012: Unfinished tombs are seen here in the cemetery of Gioia Tauro, a mafia strongold in Calabria,  Italy, on September 1st, 2012. The unfinished concrete buildings, which are very common throughout Calabria, are the result of the inability to go beyond the merely useful, creating functionality without regard for form.<br />
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The current mayor of Gioia Tauro, Renato Bellofiore, was elected in 2010 after the former mayor and deputy mayor, Giorgio Dal Torrione and Rosario Schiavone, were arrested on Mafia charges in 2008. Both had been forced to step down when the city council was dissolved on suspicion of Mafia infiltration. Gioia Tauro is a city of 19,000 people built on an ancient Greek necrapolis and that today has the largest seaport in Italy and the sevent largest container port in Europe with its extension of 4,646 meters. Because the port is not connected to adeguate roads or rails, the ships mostly transfer containers to smaller vessels and little economic activity stays local. To authorities, the port is best known as the first point of entry for most of the cocaine that enters Europe from South America. In a routine rais earlier this month, authorities seized 176 kilos of pure cocaine with an estimated street value of 38 million euros.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redi
    CIPG_20120830_NYT_Calabria__MG_9584.jpg
  • Gioia Tauro, Italy - 1 September, 2012: Unfinished tombs are seen here in the cemetery of Gioia Tauro, a mafia strongold in Calabria,  Italy, on September 1st, 2012. The unfinished concrete buildings, which are very common throughout Calabria, are the result of the inability to go beyond the merely useful, creating functionality without regard for form.<br />
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The current mayor of Gioia Tauro, Renato Bellofiore, was elected in 2010 after the former mayor and deputy mayor, Giorgio Dal Torrione and Rosario Schiavone, were arrested on Mafia charges in 2008. Both had been forced to step down when the city council was dissolved on suspicion of Mafia infiltration. Gioia Tauro is a city of 19,000 people built on an ancient Greek necrapolis and that today has the largest seaport in Italy and the sevent largest container port in Europe with its extension of 4,646 meters. Because the port is not connected to adeguate roads or rails, the ships mostly transfer containers to smaller vessels and little economic activity stays local. To authorities, the port is best known as the first point of entry for most of the cocaine that enters Europe from South America. In a routine rais earlier this month, authorities seized 176 kilos of pure cocaine with an estimated street value of 38 million euros.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redi
    CIPG_20120901_NYT_Calabria__MG_9574.jpg
  • Polsi, Italy - 2 September, 2012: Pilgrims and a local band waits for the end of the mass by the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi to  start the religious procession in Polsi, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. <br />
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain, is a Christian sanctuary in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria. The chiefs of the Calabrian criminal consortium, the 'Ndrangheta, have held annual meetings at the Sanctuary. According to the pentito Cesare Polifroni – a former member turned state witness – at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory such as kidnappings, homicides, etc.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_9950.jpg
  • Gioia Tauro, Italy - 1 September, 2012: Unfinished tombs are seen here in the cemetery of Gioia Tauro, a mafia strongold in Calabria,  Italy, on September 1st, 2012. The unfinished concrete buildings, which are very common throughout Calabria, are the result of the inability to go beyond the merely useful, creating functionality without regard for form.<br />
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The current mayor of Gioia Tauro, Renato Bellofiore, was elected in 2010 after the former mayor and deputy mayor, Giorgio Dal Torrione and Rosario Schiavone, were arrested on Mafia charges in 2008. Both had been forced to step down when the city council was dissolved on suspicion of Mafia infiltration. Gioia Tauro is a city of 19,000 people built on an ancient Greek necrapolis and that today has the largest seaport in Italy and the sevent largest container port in Europe with its extension of 4,646 meters. Because the port is not connected to adeguate roads or rails, the ships mostly transfer containers to smaller vessels and little economic activity stays local. To authorities, the port is best known as the first point of entry for most of the cocaine that enters Europe from South America. In a routine rais earlier this month, authorities seized 176 kilos of pure cocaine with an estimated street value of 38 million euros.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redi
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  • Gioia Tauro, Italy - 1 September, 2012: Unfinished tombs are seen here in the cemetery of Gioia Tauro, a mafia strongold in Calabria,  Italy, on September 1st, 2012. The unfinished concrete buildings, which are very common throughout Calabria, are the result of the inability to go beyond the merely useful, creating functionality without regard for form.<br />
The unfinished concrete buildings, which are very common throughout Calabria, are the result of the inability to go beyond the merely useful, creating functionality without regard for form.<br />
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The current mayor of Gioia Tauro, Renato Bellofiore, was elected in 2010 after the former mayor and deputy mayor, Giorgio Dal Torrione and Rosario Schiavone, were arrested on Mafia charges in 2008. Both had been forced to step down when the city council was dissolved on suspicion of Mafia infiltration. Gioia Tauro is a city of 19,000 people built on an ancient Greek necrapolis and that today has the largest seaport in Italy and the sevent largest container port in Europe with its extension of 4,646 meters. Because the port is not connected to adeguate roads or rails, the ships mostly transfer containers to smaller vessels and little economic activity stays local. To authorities, the port is best known as the first point of entry for most of the cocaine that enters Europe from South America. In a routine rais earlier this month, authorities seized 176 kilos of pure cocaine with an estimated street value of 38 million euros.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemploy
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  • Rosarno, Italy - 31 August, 2012: Antonio Pioli, 62, the father of Fabrizio Pioli, a 38 years old man who was killed in February 2012 and whose body is still missing in  Rosano, Italy, a mafia stronghold on August 31, 2012. Fabrizio Pioli was apparently killed by the family of Simona Napoli, the married woman who Fabrizio had an affair with and whose father is a fugitive mafia boss.<br />
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Rosarno is an agricultural area best known for the violent race riots that erupted here in January 2010. and for being a hotbed of the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type criminal organisation based in Calabria. The local 'Ndrangheta dominates the fruit and vegetable businesses in the area, according to Francesco Forgione, a former head of Italy's parliamentary Antimafia Commission. In December 2008, the entire town council was dissolved on orders from the central government and replaced by a prefectoral commissioner because it had been infiltrated by 'Ndrangheta members and their known associates.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120831_NYT_Calabria__MG_9220.jpg
  • Gioia Tauro, Italy - 31 August, 2012: Mayor of Gioia Tauro Renato Bellofiore, 44, complains about the debt left by his predecessors, in Gioia Tauro, Italy, on August 31, 2012. Mr Bellofiore was elected in 2010 after the former mayor and deputy mayor, Giorgio Dal Torrione and Rosario Schiavone, were arrested on Mafia charges in 2008. Both had been forced to step down when the city council was dissolved on suspicion of Mafia infiltration. Gioia Tauro is a city of 19,000 people built on an ancient Greek necrapolis and that today has the largest seaport in Italy and the sevent largest container port in Europe with its extension of 4,646 meters. Because the port is not connected to adeguate roads or rails, the ships mostly transfer containers to smaller vessels and little economic activity stays local. To authorities, the port is best known as the first point of entry for most of the cocaine that enters Europe from South America. In a routine rais earlier this month, authorities seized 176 kilos of pure cocaine with an estimated street value of 38 million euros.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120831_NYT_Calabria__MG_8899.jpg
  • Catanzaro, Italy - 3 September, 2012: The president of Calabria region Giuseppe Scopelliti, 44, sits on a couch by his office in Catanzaro, Italy, on September 3rd, 2012. Mr Scopelliti from the People of Liberty party of the former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is appealing a first-degree sentence in a corruption case and is under investigation on four separate charge.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120903_NYT_Calabria__MG_0386.jpg
  • Catanzaro, Italy - 3 September, 2012: The president of Calabria region Giuseppe Scopelliti, 44, sits on a couch by his office in Catanzaro, Italy, on September 3rd, 2012. Mr Scopelliti from the People of Liberty party of the former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is appealing a first-degree sentence in a corruption case and is under investigation on four separate charge.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120903_NYT_Calabria__MG_0382.jpg
  • Castellace di Oppido Mamertina, Italy - 3 September, 2012: Francesco, a 32 years old worker for the non-profit organization Libera Terra, removes the burned roots of olive trees set on fire by the 'Ndrangheta (a Mafia-type criminal organisation based in Calabria) with a crane, 3 days after a digger was set on fire in the same field in Castellace di Oppido Mamertina, Italy, on September 3rd, 2012. Libera terra, which is a non profit organisation uses the land that has been confiscated to mafia bosses to produce a range of organic foods and wines, including olive oil, pasta, marmalades, jams, legumes and preserves as well as a large selection of typically southern Italian produce.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120903_NYT_Calabria__MG_0279.jpg
  • Castellace di Oppido Mamertina, Italy - 3 September, 2012: Francesco, a 32 years old worker for the non-profit organization Libera Terra, removes the burned roots of olive trees set on fire by the 'Ndrangheta (a Mafia-type criminal organisation based in Calabria) with a crane, 3 days after a digger was set on fire in the same field in Castellace di Oppido Mamertina, Italy, on September 3rd, 2012. Libera terra, which is a non profit organisation uses the land that has been confiscated to mafia bosses to produce a range of organic foods and wines, including olive oil, pasta, marmalades, jams, legumes and preserves as well as a large selection of typically southern Italian produce.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120903_NYT_Calabria__MG_0241.jpg
  • Castellace di Oppido Mamertina, Italy - 3 September, 2012: Francesco, a 32 years old worker for the non-profit organization Libera Terra, removes the burned roots of olive trees set on fire by the 'Ndrangheta (a Mafia-type criminal organisation based in Calabria) with a crane, 3 days after a digger was set on fire in the same field in Castellace di Oppido Mamertina, Italy, on September 3rd, 2012. Libera terra, which is a non profit organisation uses the land that has been confiscated to mafia bosses to produce a range of organic foods and wines, including olive oil, pasta, marmalades, jams, legumes and preserves as well as a large selection of typically southern Italian produce.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120903_NYT_Calabria__MG_0179.jpg
  • Polsi, Italy - 2 September, 2012: Pilgrims and a caribienere in high uniform, one of Italy's armed forces, wait for the end of the mass by the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi under the supervision of the Italian Army to start the religious procession in Polsi, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. <br />
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The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain, is a Christian sanctuary in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria. The chiefs of the Calabrian criminal consortium, the 'Ndrangheta, have held annual meetings at the Sanctuary. According to the pentito Cesare Polifroni – a former member turned state witness – at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory such as kidnappings, homicides, etc.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_9981.jpg
  • Polsi, Italy - 2 September, 2012: Pilgrims gather outside the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. <br />
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The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain, is a Christian sanctuary in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria. The chiefs of the Calabrian criminal consortium, the 'Ndrangheta, have held annual meetings at the Sanctuary. According to the pentito Cesare Polifroni – a former member turned state witness – at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory such as kidnappings, homicides, etc.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_9929.jpg
  • Polsi, Italy - 2 September, 2012: Pilgrims gather in the square nearby Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. <br />
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain, is a Christian sanctuary in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria. The chiefs of the Calabrian criminal consortium, the 'Ndrangheta, have held annual meetings at the Sanctuary. According to the pentito Cesare Polifroni – a former member turned state witness – at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory such as kidnappings, homicides, etc.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_9880.jpg
  • Polsi, Italy - 2 September, 2012: Pilgrims sit on the wall by the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. <br />
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain, is a Christian sanctuary in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria. The chiefs of the Calabrian criminal consortium, the 'Ndrangheta, have held annual meetings at the Sanctuary. According to the pentito Cesare Polifroni – a former member turned state witness – at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory such as kidnappings, homicides, etc.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_9856.jpg
  • Polsi, Italy - 2 September, 2012: A family stops for a brake before continuing their pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. <br />
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain, is a Christian sanctuary in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria. The chiefs of the Calabrian criminal consortium, the 'Ndrangheta, have held annual meetings at the Sanctuary. According to the pentito Cesare Polifroni – a former member turned state witness – at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory such as kidnappings, homicides, etc.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
<br />
Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_9840.jpg
  • Polsi, Italy - 2 September, 2012: Francesco, 15, and Giuseppe, 14, play accordion and tambourine on their way back from the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. <br />
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain, is a Christian sanctuary in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria. The chiefs of the Calabrian criminal consortium, the 'Ndrangheta, have held annual meetings at the Sanctuary. According to the pentito Cesare Polifroni – a former member turned state witness – at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory such as kidnappings, homicides, etc.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
<br />
Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_9765.jpg
  • Polsi, Italy - 2 September, 2012: A statue of Our Lady of Polsi (or Our Lady of the Mountain) is seen here on the street that leads to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012.<br />
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain, is a Christian sanctuary in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria. The chiefs of the Calabrian criminal consortium, the 'Ndrangheta, have held annual meetings at the Sanctuary. According to the pentito Cesare Polifroni – a former member turned state witness – at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory such as kidnappings, homicides, etc.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
<br />
Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_9746.jpg
  • Polsi, Italy - 2 September, 2012: A truck decorated with an image of Our Lady of Polsi (or Our Lady of the Mountain) is seen here on the street that leads to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. <br />
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The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain, is a Christian sanctuary in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria. The chiefs of the Calabrian criminal consortium, the 'Ndrangheta, have held annual meetings at the Sanctuary. According to the pentito Cesare Polifroni – a former member turned state witness – at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory such as kidnappings, homicides, etc.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
<br />
Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_9737.jpg
  • Polsi, Italy - 2 September, 2012: A cow is seen here in the woods of Aspromonte mountain by the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. Aspromonte is a mountain massif which mean "rough mountains", so named by the farmers who found its steep terrain and rocky soil difficult to cultivate<br />
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The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain, is a Christian sanctuary in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria. The chiefs of the Calabrian criminal consortium, the 'Ndrangheta, have held annual meetings at the Sanctuary. According to the pentito Cesare Polifroni – a former member turned state witness – at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory such as kidnappings, homicides, etc.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_9708.jpg
  • Polsi, Italy - 2 September, 2012: A mist-shrouded street in the Aspromonte mountain leads to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. Aspromonte is a mountain massif which mean "rough mountains", so named by the farmers who found its steep terrain and rocky soil difficult to cultivate<br />
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The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain, is a Christian sanctuary in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria. The chiefs of the Calabrian criminal consortium, the 'Ndrangheta, have held annual meetings at the Sanctuary. According to the pentito Cesare Polifroni – a former member turned state witness – at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory such as kidnappings, homicides, etc.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
<br />
Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_9701.jpg
  • Polsi, Italy - 2 September, 2012: A mist-shrouded street in the Aspromonte mountain leads to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. Aspromonte is a mountain massif which mean "rough mountains", so named by the farmers who found its steep terrain and rocky soil difficult to cultivate<br />
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The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain, is a Christian sanctuary in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria. The chiefs of the Calabrian criminal consortium, the 'Ndrangheta, have held annual meetings at the Sanctuary. According to the pentito Cesare Polifroni – a former member turned state witness – at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory such as kidnappings, homicides, etc.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
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  • San Luca, Italy - 2 September, 2012: An unfinished home is seen here in San Luca, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. San Luca, in the words of a study published in 2005 by Italy's domestic intelligence service, is the cradle of the 'Ndrangheta and its epicentre. The unfinished concrete buildings, which are very common throughout Calabria, are the result of the inability to go beyond the merely useful, creating functionality without regard for form.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_9664.jpg
  • San Luca, Italy - 2 September, 2012: View of the town of San Luca, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. San Luca, in the words of a study published in 2005 by Italy's domestic intelligence service, is the cradle of the 'Ndrangheta and its epicentre.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_9654.jpg
  • Gambarie, Italy - 2 September, 2012: A truck tire is abandoned here in a field overlooking the province of Reggio Calabria in Gambarie, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_0119.jpg
  • Polsi, Italy - 2 September, 2012: A tile decorated with the image of Our Lady of Polsi (or Our Lady of the Mountains) is sold here by the Sanctuary of Polsi together with other toys, including guns and rifles in Polsi, a mafia stronghold in Calabria, Italy, on September 2nd, 2012. <br />
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, also known as the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Polsi or Our lady of the Mountain, is a Christian sanctuary in the heart of the Aspromonte mountains, near San Luca in Calabria. The chiefs of the Calabrian criminal consortium, the 'Ndrangheta, have held annual meetings at the Sanctuary. According to the pentito Cesare Polifroni – a former member turned state witness – at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory such as kidnappings, homicides, etc.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120902_NYT_Calabria__MG_0071.jpg
  • Reggio Calabria, Italy - 1 September, 2012: An ad for a jewelry store is seen here in Polistena, a town in the mountainside of Aspromonte, a mountain massif which mean "rough mountains", so named by the farmers who found its steep terrain and rocky soil difficult to cultivate. in Polistena, Italy, on September 1st, 2012.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redirect 380 million euros in structural funding away from the A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria highway after finding widespread evidence of corruption in the bidding processes.
    CIPG_20120901_NYT_Calabria__MG_9647.jpg
  • Gioia Tauro, Italy - 1 September, 2012: Unfinished tombs are seen here in the cemetery of Gioia Tauro, a mafia strongold in Calabria,  Italy, on September 1st, 2012. The unfinished concrete buildings, which are very common throughout Calabria, are the result of the inability to go beyond the merely useful, creating functionality without regard for form.<br />
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The current mayor of Gioia Tauro, Renato Bellofiore, was elected in 2010 after the former mayor and deputy mayor, Giorgio Dal Torrione and Rosario Schiavone, were arrested on Mafia charges in 2008. Both had been forced to step down when the city council was dissolved on suspicion of Mafia infiltration. Gioia Tauro is a city of 19,000 people built on an ancient Greek necrapolis and that today has the largest seaport in Italy and the sevent largest container port in Europe with its extension of 4,646 meters. Because the port is not connected to adeguate roads or rails, the ships mostly transfer containers to smaller vessels and little economic activity stays local. To authorities, the port is best known as the first point of entry for most of the cocaine that enters Europe from South America. In a routine rais earlier this month, authorities seized 176 kilos of pure cocaine with an estimated street value of 38 million euros.<br />
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Calabria is one of the poorest Italian regions which suffers from lack of basic services (hospitals without proper equipment, irregular electricity and water), the product of disparate political interests vying for power. The region is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta (pronounced en-Drang-get-A), which authorities say is the most powerful in Italy because it is the welthiest and best organized.<br />
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The region today has nearly 20 percent unemployment, 40 percent youth unemployment and among the lowest female unemployment and broadband Internet levels in Italy. Business suffer since poor infrastructure drives up transport costs.<br />
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Last summer the European Union's anti-fraud office demanded that Italy redi
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