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The solar project is owned and operated by AES, and is located on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii (USA). Construction work on the plant is scheduled to start in April 2023 and finish by the end of the same year.
The Spanish Soltec, a vertically integrated company dedicated to photovoltaic projects with solar trackers, has announced that it will supply 56 MW of trackers on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii (USA). Specifically, it will supply 2,068 of its SF7 solar trackers for a project owned by AES, which will also be in charge of its operation. Soltec affirms that the design of the SF7 "is ideal for terrain with steep slopes and for small spaces".
With this photovoltaic project, which will have 108,192 modules, there are already 210 MW of solar trackers supplied by Soltec in Hawaii. Construction work on the plant is scheduled to start in April 2023 and finish by the end of the same year.
The American AES has a page dedicated to the project: in 2018, the local utility Hawaiian Electric Companies (HECO) issued the largest request for proposals for renewable energy in the history of the state. Through that process, eight projects were selected, including the West Oahu Solar, which includes storage.
According to the web portal, it is a photovoltaic project of 12.5 MW and 50 MWh of energy storage in lithium-ion batteries in containers. It will occupy up to 97 acres of land leased from the University of Hawaii West Oahu (UHWO), and has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA), which includes decommissioning and return of the project area to its current (or comparable) state at the end of its useful life.
“With the supply of this photovoltaic project, we continue to strengthen not only our relationship with the largest players in the global market, but also our position in the United States. Only in Hawaii we already have projects in all the big islands: Kauai, Hawaii, Maui and Oahu”, explained Colin Caufiled, Vice President of North American Sales at Soltec. |
