Canada’s Largest Solar PV Power Plant To Be Powered By ABB

10 years ago Zachary Shahan
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!

ABB_LasVegasSolar

Canada’s going to soon get its first 100-MW solar power plant. The Grand Renewable Energy Park will be in Ontario, which is Canada’s most populous province and home to Toronto (which is getting a lot of attention for other reasons right now).

ABB will be supplying Canadian Solar Solutions — the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the plant — with about $80 million of balance of system (BOS) technologies “comprising a broad range of power and automation products, including ABB’s flagship automation platform for conventional power generation and renewable applications, Symphony™ Plus.” In addition, ABB will be in charge of engineering, electrical installation, commissioning, and performance testing of the plant.

This is a big project — one of the biggest solar power plants in the world. However, interestingly, this power plant is part of a much, much bigger renewable energy project. It’s part of a behemoth $5 billion investment by Samsung Renewable Energy in solar and wind energy projects with a total power capacity of 1,369 MW (1.369 GW)!

Along with the news release sharing this hot information, ABB also shared this fun and informative video about how solar power is a rock star and about ABB’s contribution to that:

For more ABB stories, check out our ABB tag. For more solar news, check out our solar archives or subscribe to our solar newsletter.

Image Credit: ABB

Have a tip for CleanTechnica? Want to advertise? Want to suggest a guest for our CleanTech Talk podcast? Contact us here.

CleanTechnica Holiday Wish Book

Holiday Wish Book Cover

Click to download.

Our Latest EVObsession Video

I don't like paywalls. You don't like paywalls. Who likes paywalls? Here at CleanTechnica, we implemented a limited paywall for a while, but it always felt wrong — and it was always tough to decide what we should put behind there. In theory, your most exclusive and best content goes behind a paywall. But then fewer people read it!! So, we've decided to completely nix paywalls here at CleanTechnica. But...
 
Like other media companies, we need reader support! If you support us, please chip in a bit monthly to help our team write, edit, and publish 15 cleantech stories a day!
 
Thank you!
Advertisement
 
CleanTechnica uses affiliate links. See our policy here.

Zachary Shahan

Zach is tryin' to help society help itself one word at a time. He spends most of his time here on CleanTechnica as its director, chief editor, and CEO. Zach is recognized globally as an electric vehicle, solar energy, and energy storage expert. He has presented about cleantech at conferences in India, the UAE, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, the USA, Canada, and Curaçao. Zach has long-term investments in Tesla [TSLA], NIO [NIO], Xpeng [XPEV], Ford [F], ChargePoint [CHPT], Amazon [AMZN], Piedmont Lithium [PLL], Lithium Americas [LAC], Albemarle Corporation [ALB], Nouveau Monde Graphite [NMGRF], Talon Metals [TLOFF], Arclight Clean Transition Corp [ACTC], and Starbucks [SBUX]. But he does not offer (explicitly or implicitly) investment advice of any sort.

Zachary Shahan has 7127 posts and counting. See all posts by Zachary Shahan

4 thoughts on “Canada’s Largest Solar PV Power Plant To Be Powered By ABB”

  • JamesWimberley
    November 6, 2013 at 4:28 am
    Permalink

    The one thing ABB don’t make is the modules, which they leave to the Chinese. The glamour of BOS? Worth trying I suppose.

  • MikeSmith866
    November 6, 2013 at 7:16 am
    Permalink

    I see that Canadian News Sources are not covering this story.
    I am from Ontario and I can’t even find where this plant is to be built, possibly in Guelph but its not clear.
    It will be interesting to get more infomation.

  • harlydarin23
    February 20, 2014 at 3:25 am
    Permalink

    Canada’s largest solar power plant is great natural energy resource for Canada. You have shared great images and posts, thanks for sharing this post.

  • The Agua Caliente solar farm is built on a previously distributed agricultural land, 65 miles on the White Wing Ranch. It was selected after an extensive research on the availability of solar resources, proximity of existing Hassayampa-North Gila 500kV transmission line adjacent to the site and current land uses. The project needed minimal new transmission infrastructure because of its strategic location.

Comments are closed.