The company says the Smoky Creek and Guthrie’s Gap solar projects, to be built in Queensland, will be the biggest in the world to utilize back-contact technology.
TCL Solar, a unit of Chinese industrial conglomerate TCL Technology, has been selected to supply the PV modules for the Smoky Creek and Guthrie’s Gap solar and battery projects being developed in Central Queensland, Australia, by Australian renewable energy developers Edify Energy.
The adjacent renewable energy facilities, to be built across an 1,800-hectare site near the town of Biloela, will together comprise 600 MW (720 MWp) of solar generation and 600 MW/2,400 MWh of DC-coupled battery energy storage systems.
Sydney-headquartered Edify, owned by Canadian investment group La Caisse, awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the projects to Queensland-based DT Infrastructure earlier this year. The contractor has now tapped TCL to supply the modules for the solar farms.
“At 720 MWp, the Smoky Creek and Guthrie’s Gap solar power stations will together, become the largest solar project in the world to utilise back-contact (BC) solar technology,” TCL said in a statement.
