Shams Maan Solar Park is a 66.59MW solar PV power project. It is located in Maan, Jordan. The project is currently active. It has been developed in single phase. Post completion of construction, the project got commissioned in October 2016.

Project Type Total Capacity (MW) Active Capacity (MW) Pipeline Capacity (MW) Project Status Project Location Project Developer
Solar PV 66.59 66.59 Active Maan, Jordan First Solar

Description

The project was developed by First Solar. Diamond Generating Europe, Nebras Power QPSC and Kawar Energy are currently owning the project having ownership stake of 35%, 35% and 30% respectively.

Shams Maan Solar Park is a ground-mounted solar project which is spread over an area of 2,000,000 square meters.

The project generates 160GWh electricity and supplies enough clean energy to power 35,000 households, offsetting 90,000t of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) a year. The project cost is $170m.

Development Status

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The project got commissioned in October 2016.

Power Purchase Agreement

The power generated from the project is sold to National Electric Power under a power purchase agreement for a period of 20 years.

Contractors Involved

First Solar was selected to render EPC services for the solar PV power project.

First Solar was selected as the supplier of the PV modules for the project. The company installed 681,360 modules at the site.

SMA Solar Technology supplied 68 inverters to the project site.

First Solar is the O&M contractor for the solar PV power project.

About First Solar

First Solar Inc (First Solar) is a provider of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. It designs, manufactures and sells PV solar modules. The company produces solar systems using cadmium telluride technology. First Solar also offers solar PV power systems, and operations and maintenance services to system owners; and energy storage solutions and algorithms to design and simulate the optimal dispatch of a system. The company serves utilities, commercial and industrial companies, independent power producers, and other system owners in Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America. It has solar module manufacturing facilities in the US, Malaysia, Germany and Vietnam. First Solar is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, the US.

Methodology

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