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Darlington Point Solar Farm is a
photovoltaic power station A photovoltaic power station, also known as a solar park, solar farm, or solar power plant, is a large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic power system (PV system) designed for the supply of merchant power. They are different from most building- ...
, located 10 km south of the town of
Darlington Point Darlington Point is a small town on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina district of western New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Murrumbidgee Council local government area.  The centre of town is four kilometres from ...
in
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, Australia, that was launched in 2020. It received planning approval and development consent on 7 December 2018, and has a power purchase agreement for supply of 150MW to
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. The total output is 333MW DC or 275MW AC. It was commissioned in 2020 and is the largest single solar power station in Australia. The project is owned by Octopus Investments. The contract for
engineering, procurement and construction Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts (a type of turnkey contract) are a form of contract used to undertake construction works by the private sector on large-scale and complex infrastructure projects. Overview Under an EPC co ...
(EPC) is let to a consortium of
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and
Canadian Solar Canadian Solar Inc. is a publicly traded company that manufactures solar PV modules and runs large scale solar projects. History Founded in 2001 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada by Shawn Qu, Canadian Solar (NASDAQ: CSIQ) has subsidiaries in over 2 ...
. Canadian Solar also has the operations and maintenance services contract.


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