Clenergy secures PPA for 115-MW Aussie solar project

Solar panels in New South Wales. Image by NSW Department of Planning and Environment (www.planning.nsw.gov.au/).

November 12 (Renewables Now) – Solar energy company Clenergy (Xiamen) Technology Co (SHA:603628) last week confirmed it has won an off-take deal for a 115-MW solar project in New South Wales in the latest renewables tender of Snowy Hydro Ltd.

The power purchase agreement (PPA) is for the Metz photovoltaic (PV) park, having a direct current (DC) capacity of 143.5 MW. It was secured in Snowy Hydro’s highly oversubscribed call for renewables generation launched in May that ended in contracting 888 MW of capacity earlier this month.

The Metz project in New England was awarded planning approval last summer and is scheduled to enter the construction stage early in 2019, while commercial operations are slated to begin in the first quarter of 2020. The solar park will be equipped with Tier-1 Solar panels mounted on single-axis trackers and inverters by Germany’s SMA Solar Technology (ETR:S92). Its output is expected to be enough to meet the demand of up to 40,000 average Australian households.

Clenergy said in the announcement it is in the final stages of awarding engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and operation and maintenance (O&M) contracts. It obtained grid-connection permits in July. According to the company, the construction of the project will open over 150 jobs annually.

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