Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) announced in a statement that, its 100MW, Amin Solar Photovoltaic, PV Power Plant has now achieved a key milestone with the start of commercial operations.
The project location is near Nimr which is approximately 300km northeast of Salalah, is providing power to PDO’s Interior operations.
As per the statement, the project is successfully commissioned three months ahead of schedule and passed the acceptance test procedures.
Earlier, PDO awarded the project based on IPP model to the consortium of Marubeni Corporation (Japan) as the lead founder, Oman Gas Company S.A.O.C, Bahwan Renewable Energy Company LLC of Oman, Nebras Power QPSC (Qatar) and financed by Bank Muscat SAOG.
The contract to develop, finance, build, operate and maintain the photovoltaic (PV) plant was awarded in January 2019 to Amin Renewable Energy Company S.A.O.C, a special purpose company founded and developed by the consortium.
Amin IPP is also the first utility-scale PV power plant in Oman and has one of the world’s lowest tariffs at the time of award for such a project, which spans 23 years.
The installation was built and commissioned in record time, just under 12 months after signing the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contract, providing initial power into PDOs electrical grid in March 2020.
The EPC Contractor of the project was, Sterling & Wilson Solar (India).
The Project is the biggest single-unit solar park in the world to use bifacial modules, which generate less heat and can withstand the desert temperature fluctuations.
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