Bird's eye view of installation works at PV Arrays

Dau Tieng Solar Power Project is a

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power farm spread over a total area of which is located right next to

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Lake, one of the largest shallow lakes in

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, in Tan Chau and Duong Minh Chau Districts, Tan Hung, Tay Ninh Province, 100 km from

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, in the south of Vietnam.

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Dau Tieng Project composes 3 projects which are Dau Tieng 1, Dau Tieng 2 and Dau Tieng 3 with a total generating capacity of 600 MWp / 500 MWac, which is the largest

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project in

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. Dau Tieng 1, Dau Tieng 2 and part of Dau Tieng 3 have officially achieved Commercial Operation Date in June 2019. The project has the total amount of investment up to US$560 million by Dau Tieng Tay Ninh Energy JSC, a joint venture of B Grimm Power Company and Xuan Cau Corporation Limited. The project is implemented by Sinohydro Corporation Limited and Powerchina Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, both of them are subsidiaries of POWERCHINA GROUP - an authorized technical

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for administration of

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and

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generation projects in China .

Overview on plant design

Dau Tieng

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Plant is designed with solar photovoltaic technology which includes the main components of PV Panel

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, Monitoring/

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, Booster station system and

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. The general layout of the Dau Tieng Solar Power Plant, specifically the distance between equipment rows, angle and configuration of equipment, direction of equipment installation, is designed and calculated efficiently to reduce the cost and maximum the productivity from the plant. The

utilizes over 1.4 million PV modules, 220,000 pile foundations, 750 km of steel mounting structures, and almost 190 km of cables and 2,400 km of

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. Construction of the structures needs to mount the

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required 41,000 tonnes of

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. The entire

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is also connected to a 220 kV Substation of Dau Tieng Tay Ninh Energy JSC. This project is supposed to give a solar resource of around 17.5 TWh of

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totally during 25 years, which is sufficient to meet virtually the entire

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of Tay Ninh City. It means an annual generation of 694000 MWh/yr may be possible.

References

* * * * * * * {{cite web , url=http://en.powerchina.cn/2013-07/03/content_16719857.htm , title=New Energy Planning, Investigation, Design and Consultation , publisher=Power Construction Corporation of China , date=3 July 2013 , access-date=20 July 2019 Solar power in Vietnam Buildings and structures in Tây Ninh province

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Overview on plant design

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