Linde Sola PV Park is a 40MW 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. Post completion of construction, the project got commissioned in July 2014. Buy the profile here.
Description
The project was developed by Scatec. The project is currently owned by Scatec with a stake of 45%, African Infrastructure Investment Managers with a stake of 10% and STANLIB.
Linde Sola PV Park is a ground-mounted solar project which is spread over an area of 121 hectares.
The project generates 86,000MWh electricity and supplies enough clean energy to power 20,000 households, offsetting 80,000t of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) a year. The project cost is $102.079m.
Development status
The project got commissioned in July 2014.
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 40MW.
Contractors involved
Black Economic Empowerment was selected to render engineering procurement construction services for the solar PV power project.
JinkoSolar Holding was selected as the supplier of the PV modules for the project. The company installed 138,000 modules at the site.
SMA Solar Technology supplied 43 of its Sunny Central 850CP inverters to the project site.
Black Economic Empowerment is the O&M contractor for the solar PV power project.
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About Scatec
Scatec ASA (Scatec), is an integrated independent producer of solar power that develops, builds, owns and operates solar power plants. The company conducts project origination and development, project financing, design and engineering, procurement and construction management, operation and maintenance, and asset management. Scatec has solar power plants in operational and under construction in Philippines, Laos, South Africa, Egypt, Malaysia, Brazil, Argentina, Honduras, Ukraine, Jordan, Mozambique, Czech Republic, Uganda, Vietnam, and Rwanda. The company also has a pipeline of projects under development in Africa, Latin America, Europe and Central Asia, and South East Asia. Scatec is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
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This information is drawn from GlobalData’s Power Intelligence Center, which provides detailed profiles of over 170,000 active, planned and under construction power plants worldwide from announcement through to operation across all technologies and countries worldwide.
