SMA to supply Australia’s biggest solar farm
The Western Downs farm will deploy German power electronics made in Australia, with SMA announcing that it has picked up a contract to supply the 400MW project.
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Australia, Queensland: The Western Downs solar farm will deploy German power electronics made in Australia, with SMA announcing that it has picked up a contract to supply the 400 MW project.
Generating 400 MW through almost 90 SMA skids, Western Downs will be the largest solar project in the country, and one of the biggest PV installations that the company has worked on anywhere in the world.
It will be powered by the SMA MVPS 6000-S-AU, operating at 1,500 V. The inverters will be manufactured by SMA in Kassel, Germany, and assembled in Wodonga, in the Australian state of Victoria, with transformer manufacturer Wilson Transformer Co. (WTC).
“This project is a landmark for SMA, it represents our focus on supporting developers like Neoen who are committed to focusing on owning and operating high-quality solar assets,” said Joshua Birmingham, project sales director for SMA Australia.
The SMA MVPS 6000-S-AU brings together two Sunny Central 3000-EV inverters, transformers, and medium- and low-voltage switchgears, onto a galvanised base – rather than being fully containerised. Delivered pre-configured on a 12 m 480 ft) skid, the SMA MVPS electronics is a central inverter solution developed with WTC specifically for Australian utility-scale projects. The two companies teamed in 2018 to develop the Power Skid, an Australia-dedicated turnkey solution available in different architectures, with WTC providing the medium- and low-voltage switchgears – among other components.
Source: PV Magazine