Amin Solar PV Park is a 125MW solar PV power project. It is located in Al Wusta, Oman. The project is currently active. It has been developed in single phase. Post completion of construction, the project got commissioned in May 2020.

Project Type Total Capacity (MW) Active Capacity (MW) Pipeline Capacity (MW) Project Status Project Location Project Developer
Solar PV 125 125 Active Al Wusta, Oman Amin Renewable Energy; Modern Channels Services

Description

The project was developed by Amin Renewable Energy and Modern Channels Services. Marubeni, Oman Oil Facilities Development, Bahwan Renewable Energy and Nebras Power QPSC are currently owning the project having ownership stake of 50.1%, 30%, 10% and 9.9% respectively.

Amin Solar PV Park is a ground-mounted solar project which is spread over an area of 4 km².

The project supplies enough clean energy to power 15,000 households, offsetting 225,000t of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) a year. The project cost is $94m.

Development Status

The project got commissioned in May 2020.

Power Purchase Agreement

The power generated from the project is sold to Petroleum Development Oman under a power purchase agreement for a period of 23 years from 2020. The contracted capacity is 100MW.

Contractors Involved

Sterling and Wilson Solar was selected to render EPC services for the solar PV power project.

Jolywood (Taizhou) Solar Technology was selected as the supplier of the PV modules for the project. The company installed 335,000 modules at the site.

The inverters were procured from Sungrow Power Supply for the project.

The project is utilising horizontal single axis trackers supplied by Arctech Solar Holding.

Methodology

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