Nextracker to supply trackers for 1.17 GW Solar project in Saudi Arabia

ACWA Power and Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) have selected Nextracker to provide its all-terrain tracker NX Horizon-XTR for a 1.17 GW installation at Al Kahfah Solar Power Plant in Saudi Arabia.

The power plant will be located on a 35 sq km site in the Al Kahfah region, about 100 km north of the city of Dammam. It will use over 3.5 million solar panels to generate electricity, which will be transmitted to the Saudi electricity grid. The power plant is expected to generate enough electricity to power over 300,000 homes and to offset over 2 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year.

Al Kahfah is one of the three major solar PV Independent Power Producer (IPP) projects being led by Badeel and ACWA Power. The Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC) will receive clean energy from this solar plant as part of the renewable energy projects required to meet Vision 2030 and the Ministry of Energy's National Renewable Energy Program targets, which call for increasing the percentage of renewable energy in the country's energy mix to 50% by 2030. Global construction giant L&T has also been awarded the engineering, procurement, and construction contract for the Al Kahfah Solar Power Plant.