Larsen & Toubro, in a stock exchange filing, said that it has begun construction of a large solar power plant in Saudi Arabia for which it had recently clinched the EPC mandate.
The 300-mw Jeddah solar photovoltaic power plant was contracted upon the renewable arm of Larsen & Toubro’s power transmission & distribution business, by a consortium of Masdar, EDF Renewables and Nesma Company. Construction has begun following a “go ahead” given by the developer consortium, L&T said.
Awarded by Saudi Arabia’s Renewable Energy Project Development Office (REPDO) to the consortium under design, finance, build and operate mode, the project has now attained financial closure after the signing of the power purchase agreement and thereby the notice to Larsen & Toubro to proceed with the construction, L&T said.
The project is in Third Jeddah Industrial City, 50km south-east of Jeddah. This large utility scale power plant utilizes modern technologies including bifacial modules, single axial trackers, string inverters and robots for module cleaning.
Commenting on the development, T. Madhava Das, Whole-Time Director Et Senior Executive Vice President (Utilities), L&T said “We are thankful and happy to be a part of establishing major solar projects awarded under the umbrella of Saudi Arabia’s pioneering National Renewable Energy Programme (NREP) marking yet another milestone in our green technology path to enable clean energy transition.”
Earlier this month, L&T had announced the major EPC order win for 1.5-GW Sudair project in Saudi Arabia. (Read more).
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