Kahone Solar PV Park is a 21.3MW solar PV power project. It is located in Kaolack, Senegal. 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 2018. Buy the profile here.
Description
The project is developed and owned by Energy Resources Senegal.
Kahone Solar PV Park is a ground-mounted solar project which is spread over an area of 40 hectares.
The project generates 36.55GWh electricity thereby offsetting 20,504t of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) a year. The project cost is $61.365m.
9 inverters have been installed at the project site.
Development status
The project got commissioned in 2018.
Power purchase agreement
The power generated from the project is sold to Senegal National Electricity Agency under a power purchase agreement for a period of 25 years. The contracted capacity is 20MW.
Contractors involved
SolarWorld Industries was selected as the supplier of the PV modules for the project. The company provided 77,112 modules each with 260W of nameplate capacity.
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