Konkoonsies Solar Park is a 10.65MW 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 March 2014. Buy the profile here.
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Description
The project was developed by Aurora Power Solutions and BioTherm Energy. Aurora Power Solutions and Globeleq South Africa Management Services are currently owning the project.
Konkoonsies Solar Park is a ground-mounted solar project which is spread over an area of 30 hectares.
The project generates 22,000MWh electricity and supplies enough clean energy to power 4,900 households, offsetting 20,200t of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) a year.
Development status
The project got commissioned in March 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, starting from 2014.
Contractors involved
juwi Solar was selected to render engineering procurement construction services for the solar PV power project.
BYD was selected as the supplier of the PV modules for the project. The company provided 43,008 modules each with 250W of nameplate capacity.
SMA Solar Technology supplied 16 of its Sunny SC630CP inverters to the project site.
The project is utilising trackers supplied by Schletter.
BioTherm Energy, Globeleq South Africa Management Services and juwi Solar were contracted to render operations & maintenance services for the project.
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About BioTherm Energy
BioTherm Energy (Pty) Ltd (BioTherm) is a renewable energy company that generates electric power from wind and solar projects. It offers various stages of development maturity across the wind and solar resources. It offers services such as investments and monetization of carbon credits. BioTherm’s projects include Aries solar photovoltaic, Klipheuwel wind, Konkoonsies solar photovoltaic, Dassiesklip wind energy facility and PetroSA biogas. The company’s projects are located in Northern Cape Province and Western Cape Province. It also operates and maintains a MethCap plant that generates electricity from biogas waste. The company works with governments, local partners and industry associations. BioTherm is headquartered in Fourways, South Africa.
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