Greenough River Solar Farm is a 40MW solar PV power project. It is located in Western Australia, Australia. According to GlobalData, who tracks and profiles over 170,000 power plants worldwide, the project is currently active. It has been developed in multiple phases. Post completion of construction, the project got commissioned in October 2012. Buy the profile here.
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Description
The project was developed by Bright Energy Investments and Synergy. The project is currently owned by Bright Energy Investments with a stake of 100%.
Greenough River Solar Farm is a ground-mounted solar project which is spread over an area of 244 hectares.
The project generates 103GWh electricity and supplies enough clean energy to power 16,300 households.
Development status
The project got commissioned in October 2012.
Power purchase agreement
The power generated from the Greenough River Solar Farm (Greenough River Solar Farm Phase 1) is sold to Water under a power purchase agreement for a period of 15 years. The contracted capacity is 10MW.
Contractors involved
First Solar was selected to render engineering procurement construction services for the Greenough River Solar Farm (Greenough River Solar Farm Phase 1) project. juwi Renewable Energy was selected to render engineering procurement construction services for the Greenough River Solar Farm (Greenough River Solar Farm Phase 2) project.
First Solar was selected as the supplier of the PV modules for the Greenough River Solar Farm (Greenough River Solar Farm Phase 1). The company provided 150,000 modules each with 85W of nameplate capacity.
First Solar was selected as the supplier of the PV modules for the Greenough River Solar Farm (Greenough River Solar Farm Phase 2). The company installed 300,000 modules at the site.
SMA Solar Technology supplied 16 of its CP XT 700 inverters to the Greenough River Solar Farm (Greenough River Solar Farm Phase 1) site.
The Greenough River Solar Farm (Greenough River Solar Farm Phase 2) is utilising single axis trackers supplied by NEXTracker.
First Solar and NovaSource Power Services were contracted to render operations & maintenance services for the project.
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About Synergy
Synergy is a state-owned not-for-profit integrated electricity generator and energy retailer. It produces electricity, and supplies electric power and gas on retail and wholesale basis. The company generates power using the coal, solar, wind and diesel sources. Synergy owns and operates electricity generating assets in the South West Interconnected System (SWIS). Under ring fenced arrangements, it also trades energy and related products. The company serves residential, business and industrial customers with in the SWIS and wholesale customers across the state. Synergy is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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