China’s JinkoSolar Holding Co. has won an order to supply panels to a 104-megawatt solar project developed by Scatec Solar in Utah.
JinkoSolar will supply over 340,000 of its utility-scale, high-efficiency polycrystalline 72-cell panels to the Utah Red Hills Renewable Park though a contract with Swinerton Renewable Energy. Scatec Solar, the project’s developer and a long-term owner, hired Swinerton Renewable Energy to construct the plant and procure the appropriate technologies.
The project will generate around 210 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, enough to suppy 18,500 households. Scatexc Solar has signed a 20-year power-purchase agreement with PacifiCorp’s Rocky Mountain Power, according to the utility’s obligation under the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act.
JinkoSolar has an annual production capacity of 2.5 gigawatts of silicon ingots and wafers, 2GW of solar cells, and 3.2GW of solar modules, as of December 31, 2014. It also sells electricity in China, and has connected approximately 500MW of solar power projects to the grid.