ABU DHABI, UAE - The Noor Abu Dhabi, world's largest single-site photovoltaic solar power plant, has been commissioned in Sweihan, a town in the Abu Dhabi desert.
The 1,177 MW facility contains 3.2 million solar panels that stretch over an area of 3-square miles (7.8-square kilometers) and is able to supply enough power to meet the needs of 90,000 people in the city of Abu Dhabi.
The electricity generated at the solar plant is integrated into the grid with two 500 MVA Hitachi ABB Power Grids transformers, each weighing around 350 tons.
The transformers collect all the generated power and boost the voltage of the electricity from 33 kV to 220 kV and transfer it safely and reliably into the transmission grid for distribution across the country.
The two transformers are based on the manufacturer's TrafoStar design concept.
For the project, the manufacturer has also supplied eighteen, 15 Mvar custom-made capacitor banks.
This provides customers with the same standard of high quality, high reliability and low maintenance requirements across the company's manufacturing facilities. This global transformer manufacturing footprint also means that Hitachi ABB Power Grids can provide production close to solar installations.
