Adams Solar PV Park-1 is an 82.5MW solar PV power project. It is located in Northern Cape, South Africa. 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 2015 and subsequently entered into commercial operation in February 2017. Buy the profile here.
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Description
The project was developed by Enel Green Power and Sola Group. Enel Green Power, Royal Bafokeng Holdings Pty and Others are currently owning the project having ownership stake of 60%, 30% and 10% respectively.
Adams Solar PV Park-1 is a ground-mounted solar project which is spread over an area of 275 hectares.
The project generates 167GWh electricity and supplies enough clean energy to power 100,000 households, offsetting 171,700t of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) a year.
Development status
The project construction commenced in 2015 and subsequently entered into commercial operation in February 2017.
Power purchase agreement
The power generated from the project is sold to Eskom Holdings SOC under a power purchase agreement for a period of 20 years. The contracted capacity is 75MW.
Contractors involved
Enertronica Santerno was selected to render engineering procurement construction services for the solar PV power project.
3Sun was selected as the supplier of the PV modules for the project. The company installed 611,000 modules at the site.
Enertronica Santerno is the O&M contractor for the solar PV power project, commencing from the year 2017.
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About Enel Green Power
Enel Green Power SpA (EGP), a subsidiary of Enel SpA, an energy company that develops and manages activities of energy generation from renewable sources. The company is engaged in the generation of power from wind, geothermal, solar, and hydropower sources. It also has interests in various power plants in under construction and under authorization stages. EGP also has know-how in integrating innovative technologies such as storage systems into renewable power plants. The company serves a range of industries such as food and beverage, automotive, chemical, retail, cement, mining, tech, telecommunication and bank, among others. It operates power plants in South America, Central America, North America, Asia, Oceania, Europe and Africa. EGP is headquartered in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
About Sola Group
Sola Group (Sola) offers all stages of solar PV implementation: project development and financing, design, procurement and construction, to the operations and maintenance of solar PV facilities. The company is located in South Africa.
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