Suntop Solar PV Park is an 189MW solar PV power project. It is located in New South Wales, Australia. According to GlobalData, who tracks and profiles over 170,000 power plants worldwide, the project is currently active. It has been developed in a single phase. The project construction commenced in 2020 and subsequently entered into commercial operation in May 2022. Buy the profile here.
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Description
The project was developed by Canadian Solar and Photon Energy Australia. Berkshire Hathaway and Polpo Investments are currently owning the project having ownership stake of 76% and 24% respectively.
Suntop Solar PV Park is a ground-mounted solar project which is spread over an area of 450 hectares.
The project generates 395,000MWh electricity and supplies enough clean energy to power 65,000 households, offsetting 357,000t of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) a year.
Development status
The project construction commenced in 2020 and subsequently entered into commercial operation in May 2022.
Power purchase agreement
The power generated from the project is sold to Amazon.com under a power purchase agreement from 2022. The contracted capacity is 105MW.
Contractors involved
Bouygues Construction Australia was selected to render engineering procurement construction services for the solar PV power project.
Canadian Solar was selected as the supplier of the PV modules for the project. The company installed 440,000 modules at the site.
Ingeteam Australia supplied 118 inverters to the project site.
The project is utilising single axis trackers supplied by NEXTracker.
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About Canadian Solar
Canadian Solar Inc (Canadian Solar) is a provider of solar energy solutions. The company designs, develops and manufactures solar ingots, wafers, modules, cells, and other solar power products. A broad range of its solar modules find application in residential, commercial, and industrial solar power generation systems; and specialty solar products include customized solar modules that customers incorporate into their own products such as portable solar home systems. Canadian Solar serves distributors, project developers, system integrators and installers and EPC companies across Asia, America, Europe, and other regions. It has manufacturing facilities in China, Taiwan, Canada, Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia, among others. Canadian Solar is headquartered in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
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