Sungrow's inverters picked for 256-MWp solar project in S Africa

• Chinese solar inverter maker Sungrow Power Supply Co Ltd (SHE:300274) has actually received an order to supply inverters to South African solar energy manufacturer Sola Group for a 256-MWp photovoltaic or pv (PV) project.

The offer requires the delivery of Sungrow's 1+X modular inverter solution, the Chinese firm said on Thursday, including that the particular product incorporated the advantages of both central and string inverters.

The equipment has actually been purchased for a project that will create a solar ranch with an anticipated annual power result of 540 GWh. Once in operation, the complex will be supplying electricity to titanium products manufacturer Tronox Mineral Sands. The latter will certainly receive electricity for 5 of its mines and also smelters in South Africa's Western Cape province under wheeling arrangements under which state-owned utility Eskom.

The solar park will certainly be equipped with 387,000 PV panels installed on single-axis trackers. It results from go online by 2023.

In September, Sola Group offered the legal rights of the details project to German investor ABO Wind.