Darlington Point Solar PV Park is a 333MW solar PV power project. It is located in New South Wales, Australia. The project is currently active. It has been developed in single phase. Post completion of construction, the project got commissioned in August 2020.

Project Type	Total Capacity (MW)	Active Capacity (MW)	Pipeline Capacity (MW)	Project Status	Project Location	Project Developer
Solar PV	333	333	–	Active	New South Wales, Australia	Edify Energy

Description

The project was developed by Edify Energy. Edify Energy and Octopus Investments are currently owning the project.

Darlington Point Solar PV Park is a ground-mounted solar project which is spread over an area of 1,000 hectares.

The project generates 685,000MWh electricity and supplies enough clean energy to power 115,000 households, offsetting 154,147t of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) a year. The project cost is $318m.

Development Status

The project got commissioned in August 2020.

Power Purchase Agreement

The power generated from the project is sold to Delta Electricity under a power purchase agreement with a contracted capacity is 151.25MW.

Contractors Involved

Canadian Solar and Signal Energy Australia were selected to render EPC services for the solar PV power project.

Canadian Solar was selected as the supplier of the PV modules for the project. The company provided 820,000 modules each with 400W of nameplate capacity.

The inverters were procured from SMA Solar Technology for the project.

The project is utilising single axis trackers supplied by Array Technologies.

Canadian Solar and Signal Energy Australia were contracted to render operations & maintenance services for the project.

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