In addition to supplying its Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) thin-filmmodules, First Solar will provide EPC and O&M services to the project,which is part of Jordan’s Ma’an Development Area initiative – an industrialcluster being established in southern Jordan.
The PPA was signed between Jordan’s National Electric PowerCompany and Shams Ma’an Power Generation, in which First Solar’s Germany-based subsidiaryis a shareholder.
The array will be “a regional benchmark for the independentproduction of power”, says Shams Ma’an chief executive Hanna Zaghloul,and will account for roughly 1% of Jordan's total electricity generationcapacity.
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