Featured in The Quality Issue – 04-2019

Plenty of potential post Sweihan COD

The historic 1.177 GW Sweihan PV power plant should commence commercial operation this month, marking another PV milestone in the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East region. JinkoSolar is a key partner in the project and Gulnara Abdullina, Jinko’s General Manager, Africa and Middle East, says that it’s not only at the utility-scale that opportunities in the region abound.

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Eckhart Gouras

02 Apr 2019

At close to 1.2 GW, the Sweihan project is a landmark facility both at a regional and global level. | Image: Jinko Solar

A solar jewel has emerged from the desert about 100 km southeast of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE – the massive Sweihan utility-scale project. The project sprawls across eight square kilometers of the Arabian desert, and according to Chinese module manufacturer JinkoSolar, it’s likely to be joined by more mega-projects in the near …

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