Frankfurt-listed Phoenix spent 20 months installing nearly 13,000 modules and SMA central inverters on the grounds of the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPARC), under construction in the capital city of Riyadh.
With a nameplate capacity of 3.5MW, the system covers 55,000 sq m and will feed an estimated 5,800MWh of electricity per year into KAPARC’s medium-voltage grid.
Acknowledging the relative paucity of industry experience building PV systems in desert regions, Phoenix says it placed the PV array boxes in air-conditioned inverter building with an eye towards improving system performance and extending the life cycle.
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