Sault Ste. Marie Solar Park
Photovoltaic power station in Ontario, Canada
The Sault Ste. Marie Solar Park near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, in 2011 became Canada's second largest photovoltaic plant with an installed capacity of 68 MWp.
In 2009, Ontario introduced a feed-in tariff for renewable energy payments program paying up to CDN 44.3 cents per kilowatt-hour (kW·h) for large ground arrays such as Sault Ste. Marie. This makes Ontario's one of the top feed in tariff programs in the world. All of the power produced will be sold for CDN 42 cents per kW·h for the first 20 years.
Consisting of six 10 MW Ac projects, the first two were completed, by the POD Generating Group, in October, 2010 – the Baseline Road Facility on the west side of the city (46°31′26″N 84°26′46″W), also known as SSM1, using 87,000 Q.BASE modules from Q-Cells. The project was acquired by Starwood Energy, in June, 2010. The remainder of the project was completed by Q-Cells.
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