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Naizak to build Solar Power Plant for Saudi Aramco at KAPSARC
14th Feb 2011, Sulzemoos
Naizak is to build a solar park with a peak power of 3.5 megawatts for the Saudi Aramco in collaboration with Oman-based Phoenix Solar L.L.C., a subsidiary of Phoenix Solar AG, an international photovoltaic system integrator.
Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producing company, commissioned Naizak & Phoenix Solar last year to install a photovoltaic testing field designed to analyse different module technologies at its headquarters in Dhahran. The solar power plant will be built on land where the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) is currently under construction - close to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
KAPSARC itself is the largest energy research centre in the world. The construction of KAPSARC is geared towards achieving LEED Platinum certification. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, is a system which rates green building and sets standards for sustainable building. Naizak will design and build the grid-connected ground-mounted photovoltaic plant by the end of September 2011. Phoenix Solar’s principal is M.R. Khathlan (MRK), a Saudi company which, in its capacity as general contractor, will design and build the electricity and water supply of KAPSARC.
Naizak is to build a solar park with a peak power of 3.5 megawatts for the Saudi Aramco in collaboration with Oman-based Phoenix Solar L.L.C., a subsidiary of Phoenix Solar AG, an international photovoltaic system integrator.
Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producing company, commissioned Naizak & Phoenix Solar last year to install a photovoltaic testing field designed to analyse different module technologies at its headquarters in Dhahran. The solar power plant will be built on land where the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) is currently under construction - close to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
KAPSARC itself is the largest energy research centre in the world. The construction of KAPSARC is geared towards achieving LEED Platinum certification. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, is a system which rates green building and sets standards for sustainable building. Naizak will design and build the grid-connected ground-mounted photovoltaic plant by the end of September 2011. Phoenix Solar’s principal is M.R. Khathlan (MRK), a Saudi company which, in its capacity as general contractor, will design and build the electricity and water supply of KAPSARC.
