Milestone | The Largest Power Station Project of Half-cell Modules Supplied by Suntech Successfully Connected to the Grid in India
Recently, the Pavagada solar park project in India, to which Suntech contributed a total supply capacityof 210MW, has been successfully connected to the grid. It, utilizing solely polycrystaline half-cell modules from Suntech, has become the largest one amongst all the established solar power stations with half-cell modules in the world.
Located in Tumakuru, Karnataka of India, the Pavagada Solar Park covers an area of 13,000 acres and is about 180 kilometers away from Bangalore – India’s fifth largest city. It is one of the ultra-large solar parks in Asia. The project is at a place with abundant light supply, but suffers from harsh environmental conditions such as sand storm.
The Pavagada project, the largest of all the established and grid-connected solar power stations with half-cell modules worldwide, was completed and got connected after 7 months from January 2019 when the construction began. A total of 626,866 pieces of Suntech’s high-efficiency, polycrystalline half-cell anti-fouling modules were put into the project. With excellent anti-fouling performance, these modules supplied by Suntech can enhance the self-cleaning ability of modules used in deserts and under harsh environments. In addition, the half-cell technology powering these modules can also reduce both the internal losses between modules and the operating temperature in the case of actually running the power station, thus supporting steady operation and lowering future maintaining costs.
Mr. Cao Xiaorong, Vice President of Suntech Power, expressed that The smooth grid-connection of the Pavagada project in India marks the fact that Suntech’s half-cell products not only were put into mass production, but also reached a new level for actual construction and operation of the power station; in terms of better customer satisfaction and loyalty, a demonstration effect was shown as well.
In the future,Suntech will continuously provide photovoltaic products with high quality, high reliability and high cost performance for customers in India by virtue of the State-of-the-art technical advantages and the excellent manufacturing level.
About Fortum:
Fortum is a leading clean-energy company that provides its customers with electricity, heating and cooling as well as smart solutions to improve resource efficiency. We want to engage our customers and society to join the change for a cleaner world. We employ some 9,000 professionals in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Russia, Poland and India, and 62% of our electricity generation is CO2 free. Our vision “For a cleaner world” reflects our ambition to drive the transformation towards a low-emission energy system and optimal resource efficiency. Our mission is to engage our customers and society to drive the change towards a cleaner world. Fortum in India is focused on 4 verticals (Solar, EV Charging infrastructure, Bio-ethanol and NOx reduction solutions for thermal power plants). Fortum Charge & Drive is a pioneer in electric vehicle charging. Presently it has a network of 2017 smart chargers in Europe out of which about 700 are DC quick chargers. Besides, post-acquisition of PlgSurfing, an EV user can access to 67,000 charging points across Europe. Fortum provides turnkey solution for B2B and B2G, creating public charging network as well as providing world-class cloud solutions for an interactive end-user interface and a comprehensive back-end system that supports charge point operators in the remote management of charging stations. We have set up and been operating 18 charging points (14 being DC and 4 being AC) in India at various locations in Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Delhi.
About Suntech:
Suntech,as a famous solar photovoltaic manufacturer in the world, is engaged in the R & D and the production of crystalline silicon solar cells and modules. Founded in 2001, the Company has its sales areas spread all over more than 90 countries and regions in the world，and the cumulative historical shipments exceeded 20GW. The Company is always devoted to promotion of the conversion efficiency of products, continuously enhances the R & D of new technologies, improves the manufacturing techniques, and wholeheartedly provides photovoltaic products with high quality, high reliability and high cost performance for customers by virtue of the state-of-the-art technical advantages and the excellent manufacturing level, actively driving early realization of grid parity of photovoltaic power generation. In the meanwhile, the Company has 36 years’ experience in distributed projects in overseas markets and would be devoted to bringing the green energy to thousands of households. The Company is adhering to its original intention and sparing no effort to light each corner of the world by use of the cleanest and richest solar energy from the nature.
