Marcovia Solar PV Park is a 42.38MW solar PV power project. It is located in Choluteca, Honduras. 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 2015. Buy the profile here.
Description
The project is developed and owned by X-ELIO Energy.
Marcovia Solar PV Park is a ground-mounted solar project which is spread over an area of 252 hectares.
The project generates 93,000MWh electricity and supplies enough clean energy to power 45,000 households, offsetting 40,000t of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) a year. The project cost is $114.24m.
Development status
The project got commissioned in July 2015.
Power purchase agreement
The power generated from the project is sold to Empresa Nacional de Energia Electrica under a power purchase agreement, starting from 2015.
Contractors involved
Grupo Ortiz was selected to render engineering procurement construction services for the solar PV power project.
Trina Solar was selected as the supplier of the PV modules for the project. The company provided 136,720 modules each with 310W of nameplate capacity.
GPTech Spain supplied 1 of its PV500WD-INT-I inverters to the project site.
GPTech Spain supplied 46 of its PV750 WD UL inverters to the project site.
The project is utilising single axis trackers supplied by Solar Steel Gonvarri Industries.
Grupo Ortiz is the O&M contractor for the solar PV power project.
For more details on Marcovia Solar PV Park, buy the profile here.
About X-ELIO Energy
X-ELIO Energy SL (X-ELIO), formerly Gestamp Solar, is a renewable energy company. The company constructs, design, develops, installs, finances and operates solar photovoltaic plants. It offers services such as site selection, feasibility studies, project definitions, construction, transport and assembly, negotiations and project legalization. X-ELIO also provides monitoring, operation and maintenance, project design and investment analysis services. The company is fococused to adopt traditional sources such as oil and coal. Solar energy is expected to become the biggest source of electricity in the world. It has operational presence across the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe. X-ELIO is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
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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.
