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Sterling and Wilson gets world's largest solar PV plant

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

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From 2030, solar would begin to sideline coal in India, with the pace of photovoltaic (PV) additions more than doubling from the 2020s.

Jyoti Mukul New Delhi
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