Oakey Solar Farm is a 100MW solar PV power project. It is located in Queensland, Australia. The project is currently active. It has been developed in multiple phases. Post completion of construction, the project got commissioned in 2019.

Project Type Total Capacity (MW) Active Capacity (MW) Pipeline Capacity (MW) Project Status Project Location Project Developer
Solar PV 100 100 Active Queensland, Australia Canadian Solar; Diamond Energy

Description

The project was developed by Canadian Solar and Diamond Energy. Canadian Solar and Foresight Solar & Infrastructure VCT are currently owning the project.

Oakey Solar Farm is a ground-mounted solar project.

The project generates 138,800MWh electricity and supplies enough clean energy to power 24,000 households.

Development Status

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The project got commissioned in 2019.

Contractors Involved

Biosar Australia was selected to render EPC services for the Oakey Solar Farm (Oakey Solar Farm-2) project. Canadian Solar was selected to render EPC services for the Oakey Solar Farm (Oakey Solar Farm-2) project. RCR Tomlinson was selected to render EPC services for the Oakey Solar Farm (Oakey Solar Farm-1) project.

Canadian Solar was selected as the supplier of the PV modules for the Oakey Solar Farm (Oakey Solar Farm-1). The company provided 93,600 modules each with 320W of nameplate capacity.

Canadian Solar was selected as the supplier of the PV modules for the Oakey Solar Farm (Oakey Solar Farm-2). The company provided 205,860 modules each with 340W of nameplate capacity.

The Oakey Solar Farm (Oakey Solar Farm-2) is utilising single axis trackers supplied by SOLTEC.

Canadian Solar and RCR Tomlinson were contracted to render operations & maintenance services for the project.

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. Its broad range of 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, and offices across the world. Canadian Solar is headquartered in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

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