Sterling and Wilson gets world's largest solar PV plant

Project will deliver a capacity of 1,177 Mwp, surpassing current largest 850 Mwp

Sterling and Wilson, one of the dominant global forces in the solar-PV space, has bagged Turnkey Engineering Procurement and Construction along with Operation & Maintenance contract for the world’s largest single location solar PV plant in Sweihan, Emirates of Abu Dhabi. The project will deliver a capacity of 1,177 Mwp, easily surpassing the current largest 850 Mwp single location plant in China. 

With construction already underway, the plant, which is spread over a desert area of 7.8 sq. km, is scheduled to be fully integrated with the grid in a record timeline of just 23 months. The project was awarded at the lowest ever recorded bid in the history of PV solar. 

The plant is jointly developed by Marubeni, a Japanese integrated trading and investment giant, along with Jinko, a global leader in the solar industry, and Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA). The consortium has successfully bid a tariff of $2.42 cents per kilowatt hour, marking the lowest cost ever for solar power.